This is neither a castle as we imagine it, nor does this building have anything to do with the Vikings! In fact, it is the remains of a meter-high fortification, which thousands of years ago the access to the Ferschweiler Plateau in the north-west.to the northwest.

Nobody knows why the mighty stone rampart, which is still visible today, is called a "Viking castle". Whether the name goes back to old traditions of Viking raids in the Eifel and Moselle region in the 9th century? In any case, the fortification was built thousands of years earlier.

160 meters long is the central section of the mighty pile of stones that we see before us today and in front of which there was a wide moat. The sides curve inwards towards the plateau. Archaeologists have identified three construction phases in the center of the main rampart. The oldest was a wall construction made of wooden beams, stones and earth, which was destroyed by fire. Finds from the Late Bronze Age (12th/11th century BC) had already been unearthed here in the 19th century. The remains of prehistoric fortifications were also found at other locations on the edges of the Ferschweiler plateau. Whether they were all built in the same period and protected the settlements on the plateau against attacks at that time can only be determined by future archaeological investigations.