The castle stands on a slate cone at a height of 160 meters and is the only medieval hilltop castle on the Middle Rhine that has never been destroyed.

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The castle was built around 1117 to protect the town of Braubach. the Marksburg was temporarily used as a prison. Finally, in 1900 it was sold to the German Castle Association for the symbolic amount of 1000 Marks.

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Location: Spay, Landkreis Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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