Burg Querfurt in Saxony-Anhalt boasts a history spanning over a thousand years and is currently the largest and oldest fortress along the 1,200-kilometer Romanesque Road. For more than 30 years, this ...

Thanks to its perch on a rock in the dense Eltz Forest – not to mention its eight colorful, 115-foot towers – this postcard-worthy castle is a favorite for photographers.

Explore the world-famous Neuschwanstein Castle and the charming town of Füssen in this visual journey through southern ...

Germany has thousands of castles, countless beer festivals and quite a few cathedrals with world heritage status. We look at ...

The Turmburg, a single tower fortress built around 1070, was the original structure in what would become Burg Hayn in Dreieichenhain, Germany. The rest of the castle was built in the late 13th ...

The castle fell into ruin in the 1700s, but was restored (if historically inaccurately) in the mid-19th Century, with the two prominent pointed towers taking on a Romantic-inspired Gothic ...

The Keep (or Donjon): A high, strong stone tower in the center of the castle complex that was the lord's home and refuge of last resort. ... Excerpted from Rick Steves’ Germany.

Tischer, 85, had the tower built 14 years ago in homage to his German childhood in Kleinforst, a small town outside Dresden. Now retired, he spends nearly half of the year in Germany.