Germany · 13th century
Old Castle (Koblenz) ranks #5,418 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #466 of the 714 mapped in Germany. Founded c. 1250, it is older than 67% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1091 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. 27 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Koblenz, 1 km away. It is one of the 39 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Middle Rhine. It is stop 30 of 32 on the Rhine castle route, Bingen to Koblenz. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
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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