German Castles Association

The Marksburg at Braubach, head office of the German Castles Association

The German Castles Association (German: Deutsche Burgenvereinigung) or DBV is dedicated to the conservation of historic defensive and residential buildings as witnesses of history and culture and has its head office at Marksburg castle above Braubach on the Rhine. It owns the organisation known as the European Castles Institute (Europäisches Burgeninstitut) or (EBI) whose library and archives are housed in Philippsburg Castle in Braubach.

See also

• Schweizerischer Burgenverein
• Südtiroler Burgeninstitut

External links

• Website of the DBV
• Databank of the European Castle Institute of the DBV
• Die Faszination der mittelalterlichen Burgen, interview on the work of the DBV with Alexander Fürst zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn at Monuments online