Learned today that "Burg" means castle. So most of the German Cities that end in "Burg" have either a standing castle or castle ruins.
Castle "tower" rebuilt with a staircase to the top. Great views of Velberg below.
Found this "little" guy on our hike up to the castle. They have some big snails here!
Front wall of the castle.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
First trip to the commissary (on post grocery store) today on Ryan’s lunch break. Not a huge selection of stuff but not too bad either. We were able to get some stuff stocked up in case Ryan has to go to the box before I can get my driver's license. Ryan will begin our in processing paperwork tomorrow for me and the kids.
After Ryan got off work. We drove around for a bit. We ended up at an old castle in Velburg. It is not too far from our house. Most of the Castle has been destroyed.
It was ¼- ½ mile hike from the parking lot to the castle. It was beautiful scenery. Steep climb in some spots and it was raining slightly on and off. I don’t think Caelyn grasped that it used to be an actual castle. But me and Ryan really enjoyed it. The following is a little history on the castle from Wikipedia and some pictures from our visit. Looking forward to seeing more castles, especially some that are better preserved. While Caelyn doesn’t appreciate the history involved in the ruins I think she will love the visuals of the preserved castles.
Ruins Velburg
The ruins Velburg also Velberg called, is a ruined castle on the Schlossberg in 622 m east of the old part of town Velburg in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz in Bavaria.
The hilltop castle, whose exact origin is in the dark, was first mentioned in 1129 and was until 1217 in the possession of the lords of Velburg, the Count Gerhard and Hermann von Velburg first time in 1156 were named. 1188 inherited the Austrian Count Clammer race of the castle and in 1190 accompanied by Otto Velburg the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa on the Third Crusade.Until 1231, a "Comes de Velburch" demonstrated from the same family.
After the extinction of the Counts castle Velburg went to the Wittelsbach family and was alternately by Bavarian Palatinate andnurses busy. By 1450 the castle burned almost completely off, was rebuilt in 1505 and came after the Landshut War of Succession to the newly created Duchy of Pfalz-Neuburg.
In the Thirty Years War the castle was destroyed by Swedish troops in 1790 and the quarry to the construction of the church used as Velburg. In the 1980s, the remains of the castle were saved
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