Berge Castle

Berge Castle in Odenthal-Altenberg was the first fortified ancestral seat of the noble family of the Counts of Berg. The remains of the hilltop castle complex are located on a steeply sloping mountain hill on the banks of the Dhünn and are now protected as a ground monument.

The Burgplatz was located in the Deutzgau in the west of the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis in the area of the municipality of Odenthal. The Keldachgau given by older historians as the location of the castle does not apply according to the current view, as this Gau only included areas on the left bank of the Rhine. Berge Castle, of which the ruins are still recognizable today, was probably built around 1060. It was built by the father of the son Count Adolf I. von Berg, who was later appointed count, and the family bore the nickname "de Berge" from 1080 onwards. In 1133, the Counts of Berg moved to their Neuenberge Castle in Burg an der Wupper, which had been newly built in 1118.

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