Koknese/Kokenhusen, seat of the archbishops of Riga. What it might have looked like around 1400.

new broad-gauge railway, project idea of the 1940s

Ship, Hanseatic Nef

Princastellum/Bernkastel - a late antique fortification above the Moselle

Zer Heiden castle, after the heath landscape

Runkel castle built to secure the Lahn bridge

the village of Holzheim, which has disappeared today, in the 11th century

Gutenburg

The Great Harzburg (Hartesburg) around 1065.

Prato Castle (Italy), as it could have been (1248)!

Rock nest, robber knight castle

Castle with imposing shield wall

Celtic settlement 50 BC.

The castle in Zülpich was built in the Gothic style.

Provincial castle of the Archbishops of Cologne

Fort on the border with the county of Jülich-Berg

Border fortress against the Archbishop of Cologne

King's robbery, Royal Court and Imperial Palace Kaiserswerth.

Carake Peter of Gdansk around 1462. https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/terra-x/mythos-nordsee-104.html

It is a day in September around 260 AD on the Rhine river.

Castles of the Teutonic Knights

moth in a old swampy arm of the Rhine river

Last Roman watchtower in the Rheingau? Toll castle in the 12th century!

Wangen Castle, Staufer moated castle in Alsace

Carolingian to Salian Hill Castle

built as an imperial castle

Fort destroyed in 1317 by war with the archdiocese of Cologne.

Bombardment of Hohenlandsberg Fortress in 1554

Hohenstein in the Taunus. Headquarters of the Counts of Nassau in the 12th century.

The electoral castle and bishop's residence.

Baldwin of Luxembourg, castle builder. Here is a small selection.

Early timber outpost - Marienwerder at 1234, (based on an idea sketch by Peter Dennis)

Important fortress from the 15th century

Hohkönigsburg in the high Middle Ages around 1200 in Alsace

Rainald von Dassels Palace, one of the most powerful princes in the empire.

Ancestral palace of the noble family of Hohenzollern.

Salian Castle on the eastern edge of the Soonwald in the Hunsrück from 1056.

Castle Dalberg at 1550

Iron: The mining of iron was often protected by castles in the Middle Ages.

The "Old Castle" above the Eifgenbach

Ancestral seat of the Salian kings and emperors, childhood home of Emperor Konrad II.

It is 8 April 1793, and the long "March of the First Democrats" begins.

Place of European history of democracy, Königstein fortress in the Taunus.

Hostel for the Count of Luxembourg

Techniques of the past

Late Hohenstaufen castle in Alsace, Neu Windstein castle.

Balduinstein Castle on the river Lahn

Constantin Basilika, Castle of the Archbishops of Trier

Castle Sporkenburg

Castle Ramstein in the Kyll Valley

Castle Balduinseck, a residential tower of the archbishops of Trier

Tower / Castle Osterlant, a hunting seat of the Margraves of Meissen from the beginning of the 13th

The Frauenburg, widow's seat of one of the most powerful women in the middle Rhine.

Small castle becomes a modern fortress

Castles of the Knights

Castle and palaces