THE BEAUTIFUL CASTLE OF Germany
Introduction
Eltz’s castle is one of the most interesting castles that Germany has. Its architecture and the environment in which it is located, as well as its history, will surprise you at every step. Do you accompany us to visit it? A little history. Eltz Castle is a beautiful castle built in the ninth century on a rocky promontory in the vicinity of the Elzbach stream, a tributary from the Mosela River. A strategic place, since the stream surrounds the promontory for three of its flanks, which was chosen to protect the commercial route that had been established between Mosela, Maifeld and Eifel. Thus, they could benefit from this route.
Developing
The promoters of this fortress were the members of the Eltz family who are still the owners of the castle. And thanks to it, they could stay strong in power and even independent until the fourteenth century. In that century, Prince Elector Balduino de Tréveris built his own castle in the area and had to submit to the same. Its origin is in a small fortification of which the Romanesque tower called Platt-Eltz is still preserved. An impressive tower to which buildings were annexed. The funny thing is that in 1268 the brothers Elias, Wilhelm and Theoderich Eltz fought and the family was divided into three branches. And far from going each way.
They decided to build their house or part of the castle, hence we find three spaces and three different blazons. The visit to Eltz Castle. The construction of the castle was carried out almost 900 years ago and is the typical German military castle composed of various towers. Its height from the ground is forty meters, but has a large underground part that makes its total height ninety meters. During your visit you can know perfectly the family history of the Eltz but also on the part of the history of Germany. It has input with several rates and there is a possibility of guided tour. And among its spaces you can’t miss the following: the Rübenach house.
It is one of the spaces that make up Eltz’s castle and its construction we owe it to Johann Zu Eltz, of the ‘León de Plata’ branch that was the son of Wilhelm. At its entrance is an impressive armory with ammunition for guns and white and fire weapons that date from the fourteenth-xvii centuries. This house has lower camera and upper chamber that are conditioned as a living room and room respectively. These rooms show the majesty of the Eltz family over the centuries, being the most highlighted the picture of the Virgin with the child and a cluster of grapes of Lucas Cranach the old and the wall paintings that cover every centimeter of the walls ofthe bedroom.
Next to her, the Eltz family had a beautiful dressing room adorned by murals made in 1451. And about the entrance, in 1881, a desk for Countess Ludwina was adapted. The Rodendorf house. The Rodendorf house is located after the Rübenach house. Its construction was carried out between 1290 and 1300, Theoderich Zu Eltz, whose shield are buffalo horns. This house is as majestic and opulent as the previous one and highlights, above all, the so -called flag hall. A flirtatious space that stands out for its elegant chip stars of edge. Some historians assume that at origin it was a chapel that was later integrated into the house.
conclusion
Also highlighting the spectacular kitchen of this part of the castle. The Kempenich house, the last expansion of Eltz Castle. It is another of the three houses that were built within fortification and that make up Eltz castle. It is a slightly longer extension that was carried out through the network technique. His union to the other two houses gave rise to a central courtyard. The entrance to this house is carried out by means of a porch with a higher room in the salissate that is based on two impressive columns of the octagonal stature. In them there are two inscriptions ‘Borgtorn Eltz 1604’ and ‘Eltz-Mercy’. Two very important references, because they mark the start date of this expansion of Eltz Castle and who commissioned it.
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