Burg Eltz Castle

Our next adventure took us to Berg Eltz, a magnificent castle nestled in a wooded valley about 2 hours from Frankfurt.

After parking, we took the foot path through forests, mostly downhill for a mile or so. It was through beautiful sacred grove-type trees, with fall leaves fluttering around us. Lovely.

Then we came around a bend and the castle came into sight. WOW!! Spectacularly perched on a huge outcropping of rock, kind of down in a valley. It was like a storybook castle.

The amazing thing is this castle was built in the 12th Century and has been in the same family for more than 800 years. And they still own it and people still live there. Tours are given through parts of the castle that are still furnished as they were 100s of years ago. It was like stepping back in time. We saw the sleeping chambers, a council room, dining rooms, a kitchen, a chapel and a women’s work room. That would’ve been my favorite place.

We were not allowed to take photos inside, but here’s a link that shows what we saw there: https://burg-eltz.de/de/die-burg.

We had an English tour guide (the lines for the German tours were Long). We only waited 15 min to go in. After the tour, we got to go into the “Treasures Room” where they had weapons, dishes, silver and gold figurines and all sorts of things of value.