Reichsburg Cochem

Reichsburg Cochem is a castle complex in the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Cochem on the Moselle. It is the town's landmark and stands on a widely visible conical hill at 154 m above sea level (entrance) above the town. As a summit castle it belongs to the type of hill castles.

The complex, which in the Middle Ages served as a toll castle, was, according to the results of current castle research, probably erected around 1100 or in the first half of the 12th century. After it had been destroyed in the 17th century, the Berlin merchant and later Privy Commercial Councillor Louis Fréderic Jacques Ravené had it rebuilt in the years from 1868 to 1877 in accordance with the taste of castle romanticism. Cochem Castle was designed during the period of historicism in the Neo-Gothic style. Under the monument protection law of Rhineland-Palatinate it is a protected cultural monument and is entered in the state monument list. The complex is also a protected cultural property under the Hague Convention and is marked with the blue-and-white protective emblem.

Machine-translated from “Reichsburg Cochem” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Reichsburg Cochem ranks #511 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #45 of the 505 mapped in Germany. Founded c. 1125, it is older than 85% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 563 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 13,775 times in the last 60 days, more than 95% of the atlas. 13 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Koblenz, 39 km away. It is one of the 43 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Moselle. It is stop 10 of 27 on the Moselle castle route, Trier to Koblenz. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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