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Originally Posted by Smaragdadler
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That's one of my favorites, castle Eltz.
Never destroyed, never even surrendered, still in possesion of the very family that build it. A so called "Ganerbenburg", which means that it is serveral castles in one, with all branches of the family living in the same castle.
Eltz is in Rheinland-Pfalz near the Mosel river, upriver from Koblenz, I think. Has been a while since I was there.
There's the ruins of a smaller fortress on the other side of the valley called "trutz dem Eltz" which was build when the castle was besieged in the middle ages..