Cochem Castle, Cochem

Reichsburg Cochem is a castle complex in the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Cochem on the Moselle River. It is its landmark and stands on a mountain cone visible from afar at 154 m above sea level above the town. As a summit castle, it belongs to the type of hilltop castles.

According to the results of current castle research, the complex, which served as a customs castle in the Middle Ages, was probably built around 1100 or in the first half of the 12th century. After it was destroyed in the 17th century, the Berlin merchant and later Privy Councillor of Commerce Louis Fréderic Jacques Ravené had it rebuilt in accordance with the taste of castle romanticism in the years from 1868 to 1877. Cochem Castle was designed in the neo-Gothic style during the period of historicism. According to the monument protection law of Rhineland-Palatinate, it is a protected cultural monument and registered in the state monument list. It is also a protected cultural asset according to the Hague Convention and marked with the blue and white protection sign.