In 1285 the Archbishop Friedrich III. from Saarwerden demolish a castle that the Jülich counts had illegally built and instead build the Zülpicher castle with its mighty round towers.
The present castle dates from the 14./15. Century and is integrated into the city wall Zülpichs. Also well preserved are the four city gates: Münstertor, Bachtor, Kölntor, Weiertor.
They are part of the largely restored Wall Ring, which surrounds the historic center of Zülpich.
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The Zülpich is a landmark of the North Rhine-Westphalian town of Zülpich, whose origins are to be found in a Roman "castrum". The present complex was built at the end of the 14th century as a symbol of sovereignty and outpost of the Cologne archbishops against the then county Jülich.
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Burg Zülpich is a simple brick building on an approximately rectangular floor plan with high towers at the corners. It is one of the classic fortified castles and thus follows the late medieval ideal type. The sober-looking fortification renounces architectural details almost entirely, underlining its fortress character, due to its location on the southwest corner of the medieval Zülpich and its inclusion in the city fortifications of the time ...

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