page_title: Dornburg, Hesse
section_title: Sightseeing
hierarchical_section_title: Dornburg, Hesse / Sightseeing
caption_attribution_description: Rödchesmauer an der Dornburg, Hessen. Reste einer Ringmauer eines Keltischen Oppidum
context_page_description: Dornburg is a community in the Westerwald in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany.
context_section_description: The Blasiuskapelle, first mentioned about 803, in Frickhofen’s community area, was until 1746 the midpoint of the parish of Frickhofen. The chapel was consecrated to the Archangel Michael.
  The Parish Church at Frickhofen was built in 1732. From the original church only the steeple and the quire have been preserved. These parts of the building were expanded in 1955 and 1956 to make the church bigger. The church has at its disposal a great Baroque altar of the Hadamar school.
  The neo-Romanesque Pfarrkirche St. Matthias (St. Matthew’s Parish Church) stands at Langendernbach along with its “800-year-old linden”.
  The Pfarrkirche St. Margaretha Dorndorf (St. Margaret’s Parish Church, Dorndorf) is built on the foundations of a castle tower from the 10th century.
  The Hofhaus in Langendernbach
  Jewish cemetery in Frickhofen’s community area
  Memorial to victims of both World Wars in Wilsenroth
  Local history museum in Wilsenroth
  The “Dornburg” with remains of an old Celtic oppidum with a circular rampart
  The Ewiges Eis (“Everlasting Ice”) at the foot of the Dornburg in Frickhofen`s community area. Here air currents under the mountain’s loose basalt scree in the winter freeze moisture into ice. The air is thereby dried and warmed, rises and keeps the upper surface of the scree slope snowless. In summer the air current shifts and warm air from above flows into the slope, is sharply cooled and comes out the bottom end as a cold air current. The good isolation through the basalt scree ensures that the layer of ice, which can reach up to eight metres in depth in the ground, never quite thaws even in summer. This phenomenon is unique in Hesse. It was discovered in 1839 by basalt quarrymen. Today it can be viewed from two man-made galleries originally built by a brewery in 1869 as a cool place to store beer.
caption: Remains of the Rödchensmauer, the Dornburg circular rampartl
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