Top 12 Castles around Drolshagen

Nice castle with great beer garden

Unfortunately closed, so I have to come back at another time.

There is a lot to look at, so make sure you take your time to browse around.

The castle ruin Waldenburg is a beautiful little castle ruin in the middle of a great forest. There are also small wooden benches so you can take a rest. There is also an information board to find out more about this ruin.

The complex, which was still preserved and inhabited around 1830, was used as a quarry in the late 19th century, which is why it is largely in ruins today. The hilltop castle stands on a mountain spur that slopes steeply on three sides; it thus dominated the past Bergische Eisenstrasse, later named Hileweg in 1048. In addition to the walls, the more than 20-meter-high, round donjon, which has a Baroque dome and is partially slated, and building remains from the 14th to 18th centuries and a polygonal bastion from the 15th / 16th centuries have been preserved. Century, which was expanded in 1757 and 1932/33. Only the outer bailey can be visited at any time. The buildings in which the von Hatzfeldtsche Försterei are housed are privately owned.

"... The Waldenburg is the ruin of a hilltop castle near the town of Attendorn in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the oldest known building in the Olpe district and is considered the nucleus of local self-government in the region. It was built there in the 17th century the Commander Waldenburg of the Teutonic Order, which only existed for a short time. The castle ruins are now in the Waldenburg nature reserve. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldenburg_(Attendorn) "... The Waldenburg castle ruin is the oldest non-sacred monument in the Olpe district. It is located above the Waldenburg chapel and Lake Bigge. The castle can be reached via the asphalt road in the direction of Bürberg to the ruin. Another forest path begins near the Waldenburg Chapel and initially runs parallel to the dam, but later branches off to the ruins. Coming from Attendorn over the Big Bridge in the direction of Helden and after 50m right to the Waldenburg Bay. The ruin is located on a hill next to the Biggetalsperre in the Sauerland. There is parking in the Waldenburg Bay near the Waldenburg Chapel. ... " https://www.sauerland.com/Media/Attraktionen/Burgruine-Waldenburg

Nice big castle with hotel and restaurant.

It is a real moated castle, Badinghagen Castle. It stands south of the city center of Meinerzhagen and thus in the transition from Sauerland to Bergisches Land. The castle could come from a Grimm fairy tale and with its high quarry stone base and the decorative black and white framework. And so it is not surprising that Badinghagen Castle is often used as a location for romantic films. The history of the former knight's seat is documented around a thousand years in the past. The property was first mentioned in a document in 1160. It was the Knights of Badinghagen who, so much we know, had owned the complex since at least 1363 and who gave it its name. The family died out, however, and Badinghagen Castle changed hands several times in the centuries that followed. Originally the complex had also included other buildings, today only the moated castle itself is preserved, which essentially got its appearance in 1902 and no longer has much to do with the historic castle. The castle can only be reached on foot and is therefore a destination for a walk in the forest. The castle is privately owned and can therefore only be viewed from the outside. Source: www.ich-geh-wandern.de