Never stormed
It held out under siege in the Thirty Years' War when larger towns fell.
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By train to Neckargemünd in about fifteen minutes then an uphill bus to the village, or by car in around half an hour. It can also be reached by river boat on the Neckar in season — a finer and slower journey. The village is small and a full visit takes one to two hours.
The valley of the river running through Heidelberg and eastward, flanked by wooded hills carrying castles and ruins. The stretch between Heidelberg and Eberbach is among the finest in the region, travelled by train along the bank, by boat, or by bicycle on a dedicated path. Small villages and castles every few kilometres.
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The ruins of a thirteenth-century castle on a rounded hilltop in the Neckar valley east of Heidelberg, with a small walled village around it that is still inhabited. What distinguishes the site is that the village lies inside the walls: the houses, streets and church all sit within the ring of fortifications, so walking through it is like walking inside a castle rather than around one. A few hundred people live there. Dilsberg held out under siege during the Thirty Years' War when larger towns fell, and was never taken by storm. Its best-known feature is the deep well and an underground tunnel about eighty metres long cut through the rock, linking the castle to a well outside the walls. Its purpose was to keep water available during a siege. It can be walked — low and narrow in places. From the tower there is a wide view over the Neckar valley and its bends. Mark Twain visited and wrote about the place in A Tramp Abroad in 1880.
It held out under siege in the Thirty Years' War when larger towns fell.
From the tower the river's bends and the whole valley are visible.
He visited and included it in A Tramp Abroad in 1880.
The village of Dilsberg above the Neckar valley, east of Heidelberg