Burgbrohl

Burgbrohl is a nearby church within the district of Ahrweiler in Rhineland Palatinate. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Brohltal, which has its administrative headquarters in Niederzissen. Burgbrohl is a nationally identified traveler lodge and exact as a base middle according to nation making plans. For the primary time Burgbrohl is mentioned in the center Ages documentary, as Volcoldus of Brule in 1093 and 1112 as a witness in the founding deed of the monastery Laach by using the Count Palatine Henry II become called.

Presumably, the lords of Brule, as ministerial of the emperor's commissioner, had a fortified courtyard at the citadel hill and supervised the strategic vicinity of the intersecting paths in the valley. Their significance ought to have elevated within the following years, due to the fact in a document of 1289 is spoken by means of a fort. In 1338 the lords of Brohl contributed to the fief with the tower, the gate, the fore fortress with the court within the valley and across the castle to the Margrave William I of Julich. The fief hobby lasted until the complete reorganization by means of the French in 1798.