Perched on a steep hilltop in southern Germany, the striking turrets of Hohenzollern Castle rise in contrast to the rolling countryside that surrounds them. The fortress is the ancestral seat of ...

No one knows for sure how many castles are in Germany, but the best guess is around 25,000. So which ones to see? Here are 10 of the best castles to tour when you travel to Germany.

Photo taken on Nov. 2, 2013 shows a part of the Burg Hohenzollern in Hechingen, Germany. Burg Hohenzollern is a castle considered to be the ancestral seat of the Hohenzollern family, which emerged ...

The largely ruined Rheinfels Castle, which is set high above the most picturesque stretch of the Rhine and was once a property of the Hohenzollern family, ... The ministry's powers later went to ...

The Eltz Castle is commonly known as Burg Eltz, Burg being the translation for “castle” in German. The first written evidence of Eltz Castle is from 1157, making it nearly 900 years old. It ...