Townscapes and village scenery Kobern-Gondorf

In addition to a total of four castles, a considerable amount of medieval building fabric has been preserved in the districts of Kobern and Gondorf. The partly well preserved and lovingly restored buildings of the village tell their very own stories. In the course of the streets in the district of Kobern, the medieval street layout can still be clearly seen today. Kobern was probably fortified. Even at the beginning of the 19th century, remains of decayed gates were still visible. Due to excavations, beginning in the middle of the 19th century, Kobern-Gondorf is of outstanding importance for late Roman-early medieval historical research, especially the district of Gondorf. The river castle Schloss von der Leyen dates from the 14th to the 17th century and was the ancestral seat of the Princes von der Leyen. The market square with the Tatzelwurmbrunnen fountain invites visitors to stop and linger during the summer months. Sights Kobern district - Above the village, on a mountain spur, lies the upper castle from the 12th century. As the most important building in the community of Kobern-Gondorf, the Matthiaskapelle, which was built between 1220 and 1240, belongs to the castle. Here, after the fifth (sixth) crusade, the head of the apostle Matthias is said to have been kept as an important relic. - Below the upper castle, but on the same spur, lies the lower castle, also dating from the 12th century. - The parish church of St. Lubentius in Kobern was built in 1827/28 as a hall church according to plans by Johann Claudius von Lassaulx. - The Gothic Chapel of the Epiphany in the Kobern cemetery dates from around 1420 to 1440, with murals from the 15th and 16th centuries preserved inside. - In the center of the village near the market place there is a Gothic half-timbered house in Kirchstraße. It is a courtyard of the monastery of Saint Mary. From examinations of the wood used for the construction it can be concluded that this house was built as early as 1320/21. This makes it one of the oldest preserved half-timbered houses in Rhineland-Palatinate. - At the other end of the market square in Peterstraße is the so-called Knights' Hall. This is part of a Gothic castle house of the Romilian family. Remains of the tower belonging to the complex can be found in the immediate vicinity. Gondorf district - Just outside the village center, near the Von-der-Leyen-Platz, is the Catholic parish church of St. John the Apostle, built in the 1870s in neo-Gothic style and dedicated to St. John the Apostle. - Directly on the banks of the Moselle lies the ancestral seat of the princely von der Leyen family, the upper castle, also called Gondorf Castle, with Gothic and Renaissance components. - The Niederburg (not to be confused with the castle of the same name in the district of Kobern) on the northeastern edge of the village was built from a 13th-century Romanesque residential tower, which was rebuilt in the 19th century by the Cologne architect Vincenz Statz. It bears the name Liebieg Castle after a former owner

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