Burg Coraidelstein, Medieval castle ruins in Klotten, Germany

Burg Coraidelstein, also called Burg Klotten, is the ruin of a hillside castle on a hilltop at 177 m above sea level above Klotten on the Moselle. Its oldest part is the ruin of the Romanesque bergfried, which cannot be climbed because of a pronounced gap in its masonry. The residential building (Palas) was built only in the 16th century and later extended. The castle is in private ownership and cannot be visited.

Local tradition credits the hilltop castle's founding in 960 to Hermann I, Count Palatine of Lotharingia of the Ezzonen family, and Richeza of Lotharingia, queen of Poland, is said to have stayed at Klotten after 1036. The first secure mention of the Reichsburg Klotten dates from 1294, when it passed to the Archbishop of Trier, a transfer confirmed in 1346. From 1410 to 1542 the lords of Winneburg held it as a fief, then shares were divided among several families; from 1654 it was a Trier fief of the von Kesselstatt family until 1917.

The castle is private and cannot be visited. Its name lives on in the local knightly family documented before 1294, and in the pottery workshop that Else Harney and Wendelin Stahl ran here from 1952; Stahl continued it with his former student Ayca Riedinger until his death in 2000.

The ruin is private property and cannot be visited; the site above Klotten is not open to the public. The Romanesque bergfried, the oldest part, has a pronounced gap in its masonry and cannot be climbed. The residential building (Palas) dates from the 16th century and was later extended.

The oldest surviving part is the ruined Romanesque bergfried, whose masonry has a pronounced gap and cannot be climbed. The residential building (Palas) dates only from the 16th century and was extended later. Since 1917 the site has been privately owned; two houses were built there, and from 1952 Else Harney and Wendelin Stahl ran a pottery workshop, continued by Stahl with Ayca Riedinger until 2000.