Prümerburg Castle

The Prümburg is the ruin of a hilltop castle on a approximately 30-meter high Lias sandstone rock at the upper edge of the Prüm river valley near the municipality of Prümzurlay in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate.

The Prümburg, a fief of the Counts and later Dukes of Luxembourg, is first documented in 1337, but was probably built in the 12th century. In the immediate vicinity, prehistoric hillforts existed much earlier. Special features include the remains of the pentagonal keep. The Prümburg is said to have burned down in 1658.

Walther von Meysenburg is the first documented feudal lord in 1337. In 1351, Gottfried von Meysenburg and his wife Katharina von Homburg were feudal lords of the castle; later, Prümzurlay, like Clerf, passed to the Lords of Brandenburg (a collateral line of the Counts of Vianden). Subsequently, the families of Vinstingen (through marriage) and Haracourt (also through marriage) are documented as feudal lords. A line of the von der Heyden family acquired the lordship of Prümburg together with Niederweis and Stolzemburg in the early modern period.

Northwest in the valley, the late Gothic former castle chapel of St. Nicholas has been preserved.