Germany · Partial ruin
Trutzeltz Castle
Trutzeltz Castle is the small, ruined remains of a 14th-century siege castle built by the Archbishop of Trier during the Eltz Feud. The site consists chiefly of the over-10-metre-high fragment of a rectangular tower house and short foundation walls on a compact hilltop above the Elz valley near Eltz Castle. It fell out of use in the later Middle Ages and survives today as a partial ruin.
First raised
1336
Its prime
1333
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1333
The shape it held in its prime.
A compact hilltop stronghold occupying roughly 30 × 25 metres, dominated by the tall, rectangular rubble-stone tower house whose walls still stand over ten metres high. Masonry is composed of small, irregular broken stones with patches of lighter clay mortar. Two vertical openings are visible in the surviving wall face — a small high window and a larger arched ground-level opening — no roof survives today and vegetation grows on the top and around the foundations on a steep, tree-lined slope.
Step inside
6 places to explore in 1333.
The record describes 6 distinct spots at Trutzeltz Castle — including 2 interiors: inner courtyard (interior), tower-house top chamber (interior). Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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See Trutzeltz Castle with the fires lit.
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