Old Castle (Koblenz)

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 #5,226 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #398 of the 505 mapped in Germany. Founded 1342, it is older than 60% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 604 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. 19 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Koblenz, 1 km away. It is one of the 33 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Middle Rhine. It is stop 26 of 27 on the Rhine castle route, Bingen to Koblenz. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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