Cleeberg Castle

En un regard

Le château en bref

Burg Cleeberg towers over the village of Cleeberg, in the municipality of Langgöns (Gießen district, Hesse), from a hilltop about 290 metres high at the foot of the Taunus. First mentioned in 1129, the triangular castle, surrounded by a water-filled moat, was converted into a residence in 1557. Its keep, originally 33 metres tall, was cut down in 1855 and 1882 to about 21 metres. The municipality of Cleeberg bought it in 1845; it was turned into a hotel in the 1970s and has belonged since 1982 to a group of private investors who created apartments inside. With its half-timbered houses, it earned Cleeberg the nickname 'little painters' town of the Taunus'. The site is private and cannot be visited inside.