As a symbol of Stolberg, Stolberg Castle towers high above the romantic old town of Stolberg. The castle was built in the 12th century, fell into ruin in the meantime and was rebuilt in 1888 in the historic style. Today, the castle Stolberg hosts several function rooms for clubs, a cellar bar and a craft museum.
Stolberg was first mentioned in a document in 1118, the founding document of the St. Georgs-Stift zu Wassenberg. The seat of the Lords of Stalburg was Stolberg Castle. Lords of the castle in the 13th and 14th centuries were a line of the von Salm-Reifferscheid family and then Reinhard II von Schönforst from what is now the Forst district of Aachen. Stolberg came to the Duchy of Jülich in 1396. Duke Wilhelm III ruled until 1402. from Jülich the area. Duke Rainald of Jülich and Geldern ruled from 1402 to 1423. Duke Adolf of Jülich and Berg ruled Stolberg between 1423 and 1437 before Duke Gerhard of Jülich and Berg took over, who pledged the area to Knight Wilhelm von Nesselrode on July 13, 1445. In the same century, the dukes enfeoffed the von Nesselrode family with Stolberg, and in the 16th and 17th centuries the von Efferen family with the sub-lordship of Stolberg. According to J. Fabricius, Stolberg in the Duchy of Jülich was “originally a castle and a knight's seat in the district of Eschweiler on the border to the district of Wilhelmstein and the area of the Kornelimünster Imperial Abbey beyond the Vichtbach”. The boundary between the two offices was marked by a small moat that flows into the Vichtbach. The part belonging to the Wilhelmstein office was called 'Berger Seite' and was subject to the Nothberg court. He embraced the Finkenberg. On February 28, 1644, after 1629 and this time definitively, the lord of the castle was awarded jurisdiction on the Berger side after years of disputes over jurisdiction with the Wilhelmstein office and the Nothberg court. Only the taxes should still be paid to the Wilhelmstein office. In 1777, the Berger side was fully incorporated into the Stolberg glory due to an electoral edict. Until 1789 the glory of Stolberg remained in the related lines of the von Frentz and von Beissel families
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