What to See in Gerolstein - Top Sights and Attractions

Historical landmark in Gerolstein, Germany. Lissingen Castle is a well-preserved former moated castle dating to the 13th century. It is located on the River Kyll in Gerolstein in the administrative district of Vulkaneifel in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. From the outside it appears to be a single unit, but it is a double castle; an estate division in 1559 created the so-called lower castle and upper castle, which continue to have separate owners. Together with Bürresheim and Eltz, it has the distinction among castles in the Eifel of never having been destroyed.

Lissingen Castle is a protected cultural property under the Hague Convention.^[1]

The Papenkaule is a dry crater of a volcano that was active about 10,000 years ago. It lies north of Gerolstein in the Eifel mountains in Germany.

The lava which was released as the result of an explosion did not, however, flow out of the vent of the Papenkaule, but reached the surface to the west of it at the Hagelskaule and streamed southwards into the Kyll valley. Because the bedrock below the Papenkaule is porous dolomite, no crater lake was able to form.^[2]

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The Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in the Gerolstein district of Sarresdorf was built between 1907 and 1913 by the Berlin architect Franz Schwechten in the neo-Romanesque style. It is considered a rare art historical document of the late German imperial period.