10 Castles In Germany Where Families Still Live Inside - Built Before 1700

They've lived here for 900 years. And they're not leaving. 10 German castles that are still someone's home — not museums, not hotels. These families have survived wars, revolutions, Soviet confiscations, and six-figure heating bills. Some have held the same castle since the Crusades. One woman inherited 500 rooms at age thirty and turned a bankrupt estate into one of Europe's best-managed noble fortunes. In Saxony, former noble families bought back the ruins of their own homes from the state that confiscated them — and started over. From Burg Eltz in the Moselle Valley to Burg Guttenberg above the Neckar: 10 castles across Germany where the families inside simply never left. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CASTLES IN THIS VIDEO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 Introduction 0:50 Burg Eltz — the same family since 1157. Thirty-three generations. 2:35 Schloss Lichtenstein — built to look ancient. It worked. 4:05 Burg Hohenzollern — they lost the throne. They kept the castle. 5:30 Schloss Waldenburg — the €5,000-a-night event space that funds the restoration 6:45 Burg Rheinstein — no tours, no marketing, just quiet ownership above the Rhine 8:00 Schloss Thurn und Taxis — 500 rooms and a management crisis 9:35 The Families Who Came Back — East Germany's untold castle restitution story 11:00 Burg Kriebstein — one of Germany's finest Gothic castles. Someone's living room is inside it. 12:15 Schloss Hohenschwangau — the castle everyone ignores next to Neuschwanstein 13:30 Burg Guttenberg — 570 years, same family, still building ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MORE ON GERMANY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Towns In Germany Where People Still Live Inside    • 8 Towns In Germany Where People Still Live...   ----------------------------------------- Credit- Footage to : thank u all ViaTravelers Mark Felton Productions Der Gutshauspod Euro Travelers epicglobe Country of Tech Aveline at #GermanCastles #Germany #GermanHistory castles in germany, eltz castle germany inside, inside eltz castle germany, eltz castle in germany, castles germany, castles of germany, germanys castles, german castles, life in germany, eltz castle inside, history of german castles, eltz castle germany, german castles and palaces, most beautiful places in germany, wartburg castle germany, burg eltz castle germany, places that don't feel real in germany, places in germany that dont feel real, top 10 castles, castles in europe, abandoned castles in europe