DE-7188210 Marksburg - a medieval castle in Braubach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

The Marksburg is a castle above the town of Braubach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The fortress was used for protection rather than as a residence for royal families. It has a striking example of a bergfried designed as a butter-churn tower. Of the 40 hill castles between Bingen am Rhein and Koblenz the Marksburg was the only one which was never destroyed.

The German Castle Association, a private initiative founded to preserve castles in Germany, has its head office in the Marksburg since 1931. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the castle was used as a prison.

Marksburg is open for visitors but one travel site has warned that getting to the castle involved a steep walk up with many stairs to climb.

This lovely postcard came from Silke (Postcrossing, May 2018)