Burg Eltz

Also on the same day in the late afternoon, we visited Burg Eltz. Victor Hugo thought this fairy-tale castle, hidden away in the forest above the left bank on the Mosselle, was ‘tall, terrific, strange and dark’. Indeed Burg Eltz www.burg-eltz.de owned by the same family for almost 1000 years, has a compact and impenetrable exterior. The castle can be reached from Münstermaifeld but we drove all the way trying to access the castle from Moselkern, where we parked at Ringelsteiner Mühle car park and the access is only possible by a 30-minutes walk. As we arrived at almost dawn hour, so we only walk to the half way where we could view the castle from a distance, quite a distance in fact with lots of branching forming an dreamy, gloomy view. It was as if an image in a dream. Burg Eltz is one of the unspoilt castles.

Now this is the true face of the castle (taken from www.wikipedia.org), a medieval castle nestled in the hills above Mosselle River, It is still owned by a branch of the same family that lived there in the 12th century, 33 generations ago. The Rübenach and Rodendorf families' homes in the castle are open to the public, while the Kempenich branch of the family uses the other third of the castle.