Burg Rodenberg, Castle ruin in Menden (Sauerland), Germany

Burg Rodenberg is a ruined spur castle on a hill spur above Menden that drops away to the north, south and west. Excavations in the 1950s uncovered a two-part site protected by a wall-and-ditch system and a building measuring 18 by 10 metres on the western spur, thought to be the hall. The ruins are freely accessible.

The castle was built as a spur castle for the Lords of Rodenberg and was later acquired by the Archbishops of Cologne. It was destroyed in 1301 and never rebuilt afterward.

The name Rodenberg comes from the ministerial family that built the castle before 1249; they were later known as von Romberg. In 1272 the family acquired the free county of Menden from the Counts of Arnsberg, and their misuse of those rights gave the Archbishop of Cologne a pretext to take the castle for himself.

The ruin is freely accessible. It lies on a spur above Menden, and the excavated section on the western side includes an 18 by 10 metre building identified as the probable palas. The site can be reached on foot from the town.

The excavations of the 1950s uncovered a two-part complex protected by a rampart and ditch, and on the western side of the spur a building measuring 18 by 10 metres, thought to be the castle's palas. The ruins are freely accessible.