Waldeck Castle

Waldeck Castle is a mediaeval castle ruin overlooking the Baybach valley in Dorweiler village, Rhineland-Palatinate. The site was the main seat of the Hunsrück family of Boos.

William I of Heinzenberg built the fortress in 1150 and established the Boos-Waldeck family.

The castle endured several wars, and was partially destroyed in 1689 by French forces during the Nine Years' War.

The castle was used until 1833 when the Boos von Waldeck family sold its holdings in the Rhineland.

Text adapted from “Waldeck Castle (Hunsrück)” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Waldeck Castle ranks #4,633 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #354 of the 505 mapped in Germany. Founded 1189, it is older than 80% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 564 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,697 times in the last 60 days, more than 63% of the atlas. 23 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Koblenz, 26 km away. It is one of the 43 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Moselle. It is stop 9 of 27 on the Moselle castle route, Trier to Koblenz. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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