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Blankenheim Castle is a castle complex above the municipality of Blankenheim in the Eifel. It was built as a hilltop castle around 1115 by Gerhard I and was the ancestral seat of the Blankenheim family.

A very beautiful castle above a great little town. Restorations are already well advanced. Definitely worth a visit

A beautiful ruin with an interesting past, which unfortunately has been demolished for building material.

Even if the castle cannot be visited because it is privately owned, its location high above the village of Kerpen is very impressive and gives the beautiful village a certain charm. Kerpen Castle is a so-called spur castle, which lies on a rock or mountain spur, but below the hilltop or the mountain peak, unlike the summit castle, and thus steeply above the valley. It is characterized by a terrain formation that slopes steeply on at least two sides. The place is practically at the feet of the castle. The former owner and famous Eifel painter Fritz von Wille was buried on a hill behind the castle in 1941. For a long time afterwards, it served first as a training center and finally as a rural school center; from 2016 to 2018, refugees were accommodated here. The castle currently belongs to an entrepreneurial family from Bonn and has since been used only for private residential purposes.

Small, historic town center with the Ahrquelle and the possibility to rest a little in a cafe

The ascent to the castle is worthwhile just for the view of the old Blankenheim, numerous information boards also provide information about the baroque garden and the Tiergarten tunnel - unfortunately no longer there.

A closer look at the castle is definitely worthwhile on a hike through the historic castle town of Kerpen (Eifel). As the former place of work or domicile of the (perhaps most famous) Eifel painter Fritz von Wille, it is also an important stop for those interested in culture.

The "old town" of Blankenheim is mostly well preserved or restored and (apart from a few "modern architectural mistakes") worth seeing. Coming on the Way of St. James from Cologne (or in the variant from Bonn), the pilgrim to Bad Münstereifel - where both routes unite - now reaches this place as a stage destination on the further path through the Eifel in the direction of Trier.