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

Celtic settlement 50 BC.

Princastellum/Bernkastel - a late antique fortification above the Moselle

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

Gutenburg

The Great Harzburg (Hartesburg) around 1065.

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

The castle in Zülpich was built in the Gothic style.

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

Provincial castle of the Archbishops of Cologne

Border fortress against the Archbishop of Cologne

Fort on the border with the county of Jülich-Berg

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

Ancestral palace of the noble family of Hohenzollern.

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

Important fortress from the 15th century

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

Bombardment of Hohenlandsberg Fortress in 1554

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

built as an imperial castle

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

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

The electoral castle and bishop's residence.

Hohkönigsburg in the high Middle Ages around 1200 in Alsace

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

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.

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

Hostel for the Count of Luxembourg

Castle Dalberg at 1550

Castle Ramstein in the Kyll Valley

Balduinstein Castle on the river Lahn

Constantin Basilika, Castle of the Archbishops of Trier

Small castle becomes a modern fortress

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

Castle Sporkenburg

Castle Balduinseck, a residential tower of the archbishops of Trier

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

Late Hohenstaufen castle in Alsace, Neu Windstein castle.

Castle and palaces

Castles of the Knights