Niedernburg Castle

The castle has an almond-shaped floor plan. In addition to the three-story, 20-meter-high keep with a high entrance at a height of 10 meters on a base area of 7.5 by 8 meters, remnants of a two-story late Gothic palas rise. A wall tower and a cistern are well preserved. Otherwise, mainly parts of the outer walls are found. The castle was protected to the west by a curtain wall with a Zwinger (outer bailey) system and to the north by a neck ditch. The upper third of the keep and the battlements were already reconstructed in the 19th century. The state castle administration reconstructed and supplemented the palas and the cistern located between the tower and the palas between 1976 and 1978.

The castle was built in the middle of the 12th century. It was first mentioned in 1195, when the then lord of the castle enfeoffed it to the Archbishop of Trier. The Lords of Isenburg-Kobern died out in the female line in the 13th century. Through the heiress Cecilia, the Kobern castles and the lordship passed to Frederick II of Neuerburg (a collateral line of the Counts of Vianden). In 1309, this line also died out in the male line. Afterwards, the castle and lordship were sold to the Archbishop of Trier. In 1688, the castle was destroyed.

The castle complex is accessible all year round and can be visited free of charge. The keep could be entered by carefully climbing through a narrow breach in the wall, but the interior does not justify the cumbersome climb.

The ascent to the castle is via a narrow footpath from the Mühlbach valley.