Wildenburg Castle (Eifel)

The Wildenburg lies in the North Rhine-Westphalian part of the Eifel Mountains in the national park district of Hellenthal in the German county of Euskirchen.

Wildenburg Castle
Burg Wildenburg
Hellenthal
The Wildenburg in 1997
Wildenburg Castle Wildenburg Castle
Coordinates	50°27′43″N 6°29′39″E
Type	hill castle, spur castle
Code	DE-NW
Height	526 m above sea level (NHN)
Site information
Condition	preserved
Site history
Built	1202 to 1235
Garrison information
Occupants	nobles, counts, clerics

The Wildenburg around 1618

A Hansa Luftbild aerial photograph of the Wildenburg from 1932

Wildenburg, 2016 aerial photograph

The castle was built between 1202 and 1235 and is one of the few hill castles in the Eifel that has not been destroyed by war or demolition. It was the centre of gravity of a territorial lordship that extended in the west as far as the present border with Belgium and in the east reached the gates of Steinfeld Abbey. As in the Middle Ages the castle may only be accessed on a single road, today the Landesstraße 22, which runs from the valley of the Reifferscheider Bach via Steinfeld into the valley of the River Urft.

Literature

• Roland Günter (1989), Kunstreiseführer Rheinland (in German), Bintlach: Gondrom Verlag, ISBN 3-8112-0592-7
• Harald Herzog: Burgen und Schlösser. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne, 1989, ISBN 3-7927-1067-6.
• Manfred Konrads: Die Geschichte der Herrschaft Wildenburg in der Eifel. Handprese Weilerswist, Euskirchen, 2001, ISBN 3-935221-08-8.
• Ernst Wackenroder (rev.): Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Schleiden. Verlag Schwann, Düsseldorf, 1932. (Nachdruck: Verlag Schwann-Bagel, Düsseldorf 1982, ISBN 3-590-32116-4)
• Werner Paravicini (ed.): Höfe und Residenzen im spätmittelalterlichen Reich. Grafen und Herren, Teilband 2, Ostfildern, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7995-4525-9

External links

• Entry on Wildenburg in EBIDAT, the databank of the European Castles Institute
• "Wildenburg". Alle Burgen (in German).
• "Wildenburg" (in German). Reichsfreiherr Floris G. H. Baron von Pallandt. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
• Eintrag „Burg und Burgsiedlung Wildenburg“ in KuLaDig, Kultur.Landschaft.Digital.