Katz Castle (german: Burg Katz) is a castle above the

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town of St. Goarshausen in

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. The castle stands on a ledge looking downstream from the riverside at

St. Goar Sankt Goar is a town on the west bank of the Middle Rhine in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Hunsrück-Mittelrhein, whose seat is in Emmelshausen. Sankt Goar is well kn ...

. It was first built around 1371 by Count William II of

Katzenelnbogen Katzenelnbogen () is the name of a castle and small town in the district of Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Katzenelnbogen is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") Aar-Einrich. History Katzenelnbo ...

. The castle was bombarded in 1806 by Napoleon and rebuilt in the late 19th century, in 1896–98. It is now privately owned, and not open for visitors.

Description

Etymology

After the original castle "Burg Katzenelnbogen" (lit. ''Castle fCat's Elbow'') this medieval fortress castle is officially known as ''Burg Neukatzenelnbogen'' (''Castle fNew Cat's Elbow''). It used to be and still is, however, comfortably and commonly contracted to "die

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Katz" ("the astleCat"). As such, it is popularly linked with Burg Maus ("the astleMouse"), which was indeed erected in closest possible vicinity as its military counterpart.

Architecture

The castle is of compact layout, consisting mainly of a great hall and a massive

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, originally 40 metres tall, on the uphill side. In 1435, the Counts of Katzenelnbogen were the first to plant

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grapes in their vineyard.The History of the County of Katzenelnbogen and the First Riesling of the World
/ref> Katz Castle and its surroundings are the place of action for the Belgian

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'' L'Orgue du Diable'' in the Yoko Tsuno series by Roger Leloup.

Gallery

Burg Katz, St. Goarshausen, Southwest view 20141002 2.jpg, Southwest view Katz Castle, Goarshausen (i.e., Sankt Goarshausen), the Rhine, Germany-LCCN2002714108.jpg, The castle in the 1890s, before the reconstruction Burg Katz, 5.jpg, View from Lorelei rocks St. Goarshausen Burg Katz 2015-10-29 16.24.09.jpg, View from Lorelei harbor Castle on the Rhine.jpeg, View from Rhine

Notes and references

External links

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Katz Katz or KATZ may refer to: Fiction * Katz Kobayashi, a character in Japanese anime * "Katz", a 1947 Nelson Algren story in ''The Neon Wilderness'' * Katz, a character in ''Courage the Cowardly Dog'' Other uses *Katz (surname) *Katz, British Colum ...