Burg Sayn

Schloss Sayn is located at the foot of the castle hill of Burg Sayn, at the entrance of Sayn, a district of Bendorf in the Mayen-Koblenz district.

The origins of the castle lie in a medieval castle manor from the 14th century, built for the lords of Reiffenberg, ministers of the counts of Sayn. Above the castle, on a mountain spur, stands Burg Sayn, the ancestral seat of the counts of Sayn. Their inheritance passed in 1247 to a branch of the counts of Sponheim, which then formed the younger line of the counts of Sayn and inherited the county of Wittgenstein in 1361, after which the family called themselves Sayn-Wittgenstein. The possessions were continued in two lines starting in 1361, the area around Sayn, Altenkirchen, and Hachenburg in the Sayn-Sayn line, and the territories around Homburg as well as the Wittgenstein land around Laasphe and Berleburg in the Sayn-Wittgenstein line.

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