The Niederburg, first mentioned in a document in 1173, was always owned by the Manderscheider dynasty of counts. Here you can get a hands-on experience of the Middle Ages! Especially at the annual "Historical Ford Festival" on the last weekend in August.
Set in a dramatic landscape of woods interspersed with water, the Eifel National Park will allow you to experience the fascinating natural diversity of a wilderness at first hand. For in this large protection area some 65 kilometres southwest of Cologne, nature has been left once more to its own eternal cycle of growth and decay.
The Hochkelberg, is at 675 metres, one of the ten highest mountains in the Volcanic Eifel. It is a former layered volcano and the Mosbrucher pond lies at the south side . Below its summit, there is a transmitter tower now.