Colorful wine city and castle Cochem in the Moselle valley. cover photo - 157339773

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Cochem Castle dates back to the first millennium, the year 1000 A.D. It was the home of the Palatinate counts and was built on the orders of Count Ezzo.The first historical mention of this castle is from 1051, when it was given as a gift to a nephew, Henry I by Richeza, the oldest daughter of Ezzo and one-time Queen of Poland.The Reichsburg Cochem was used mainly as a defensive structure. It was said that at one time, it housed as many as 40,000 knights! The Sun King Louis XIV attacked and burned the Reichsburg to the ground in 1688. It wasnâ€™t until 1868 that Mr. Louis RavenÃ©, a Berlin businessman, began to reconstruct it in the Neo-Gothic style that we see today.

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