![]() Check out this massive rounded boulder (easily three feet in diameter) one of several that could be rolled down the stairs at any attackers that might have made it this far. While one might normally think that cannons were the primary source of defense for a fortress like this, they also had a few other somewhat unique tactics ready to employ. The damages took until 1961 to be repaired, and it wasn’t until 1980 that all the roofs had been fixed and restored by the German Castles Association. Sad to say, the roof of this building and others, as well as the castle’s keep, sustained shell-fire damage during World War II after having survived almost unscathed for centuries. The tower directly ahead of our group housed the castellan’s apartment – the castellan being an appointed official and governor of the castle and its surrounding territory.
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