CastleEbersburg

Ebersburg Castle (Ruin)

The remains of the Castle can be visited

Ebersburg Castle is a castle ruin in the Ebersberg district of the municipality of Ebersburg in the Fulda district of East Hesse. The castle is located at the foot of the Wasserkuppe on the Ebersberg and is considered one of the most beautiful ruins in the Rhön.

The castle complex was built around 1100 by the Lords of Ebersberg and first mentioned in a document in 1219 as the ancestral seat of the Knights of Ebersberg.

In 1270, it was destroyed on behalf of Fulda Abbot Bertho II von Leibolz, as it had become a robber baron's nest. Only in 1396 did Prince-Abbot Johann I von Merlau permit its reconstruction.

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