# Kyburg

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Kyburg is a castle ruin on the Kybfelsen above Freiburg im Breisgau, in south-western Germany. The site stands 820 metres above sea level.

From the rocky summit, views extend toward the Feldberg, Schönberg, Schauinsland, Kappler Valley, and Breisgau. The Feldberg appears among the distant landscape views.

Pottery from the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries suggests activity, while the site also shows evidence of Bronze Age settlement. Matthias von Neuenburg mentioned Kyburg in the fourteenth century.

The name appears in records from 1484, and the fortification may have served during Zähringer rule. Two rocky outcrops formed the castle’s core.

A narrow ridge connected the outcrops, and the fortification extended about 70 metres north to south. Its maximum width reached about 30 metres.

A broad southern wall once guarded access, while a western wall and eastern rock face strengthened the defences. Only minimal remnants of the southern wall are visible.

The northern rock retains an 8-metre tower stump with walls up to 2 metres thick. A natural rock cleft forms its defensive ditch.

The cleft measures 12 metres deep and 3.5 metres wide beside the tower stump.

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