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Montclair Castle

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Landkreis Merzig-Wadern

Mettlach

Montclair Castle

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Montclair Castle

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Location: Mettlach, Landkreis Merzig-Wadern, Saarland, Germany

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2. Montclair Castle – Sulphur Rock (Schwefelfelsen) loop from Mettlach

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3. Montclair Castle – Sulphur Rock (Schwefelfelsen) loop from Mettlach

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Leela Schwartz

September 19, 2019

Montclair Castle has a small snack bar (in the courtyard) where you can enjoy coffee and cake. There's also a restroom and plenty of seating and tables where you can also eat your own food. However, you have to pay an entrance fee to access the top of the castle and the tower.

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Torsten

April 12, 2015

Visit the castle ruins for 2 euros, visit the beer garden for free (except for consumption).

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Hunsbuckel 🇺🇦

December 23, 2019

The mountain was already used for protection from the invading Teutons in Roman times in the 3rd and 4th centuries. The mountain was built on for the first time with a Celtic refuge.
The Montclair Castle was completed at the same time as the sister castle Meinsberg in Manderen in 1439.
After the builder's death in 1455, the castle was no longer looked after, with the exception of renovations between 1581 and 1583. It remained uninhabited. In the warlike days of the 17th century, Montclair was hardly mentioned again. In 1621 the castle was largely in ruins.
In 1833, Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm IV, known as a romantic, visited the Montclair ruins and ordered the castle to be restored.

In 1870 the castle became the property of the privy councilor Eugen von Boch. Eugen von Boch wanted to continue the renovation work as well as on the "Old Tower" in Mettlach.
The castle was under fire in 1945 when German soldiers stationed themselves on the castle tower for defense. The battlements of the higher tower were destroyed. Likewise the connecting bridges between the towers.
In 1991, the von Boch family left the Montclair castle ruins to the Merzig-Wadern district.

The castle is on winter break from November 4, 2019 to April 3, 2020.

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Location: Mettlach, Landkreis Merzig-Wadern, Saarland, Germany

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