Castle
Old Castle (Koblenz)
🇩🇪 Germany
The Old Castle (German: Alte Burg) was a former Elector-owned, substantial water castle in the German city of Koblenz, incepted in the 13th century. It is today reduced to the later Burghaus (castle house); which houses the city archives. It sits on tall foundations and has a tall, black slate roof with further floors in the attic and two small cupolas. The lowland castle abutted the remaining building in the old town quarter. The castle house stands tall, next to the Moselle's right-bank towpath downstream of the strategic Baldwin Bridge (lowest crossing of the river) built in 1342. The bridge, much-repaired, remains intact.
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Old Castle (Koblenz) ranks #3,739 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #273 of the 349 mapped in Germany. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
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