Thurant Castle


Thurant Castle was built in the 13th c. by Count Palatine Henry I the Tall whose goal was to secure the claims of his brother Emperor Otto IV in the Moselle region. He named the castle after Toron Castle near Tyros in present-day Lebanon, which the knight had besieged during the Third Crusade. From the mid-13th c. the archbishops of Cologne and Trier jointly owned the castle. The site was divided in two halves separated by a wall and each part was managed by a burgrave appointed by their respective primates. Each half had a separate entrance, its own residential and domestic buildings and a bergfried, today called the Trier Tower and Cologne Tower. During the War of the Palatine Succession the castle was damaged by the French troops and finally became a ruin. Only the two bergfrieds and a residential house from the 16th c. remained undamaged.

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