page_title: Hilchenbach
section_title: Ginsburg
hierarchical_section_title: Hilchenbach / Culture and sightseeing / Buildings / Ginsburg
caption_attribution_description: English: The tower of the Ginsburg in Germany
context_page_description: Hilchenbach is a town in the Siegen-Wittgenstein Kreis of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
context_section_description: The Ginsburg, lying high above the constituent community of Grund was mentioned in 1255 as a Nassau border fortification. The castle achieved historic importance in 1568 when William I of Orange-Nassau drafted plans to free the Netherlands at the castle, also making final preparations for the campaign there. On the Ginsburg Heath was the meeting point for the third army group under Count Ludwig von Nassau, making the Ginsburg, and thereby also Hilchenbach, into a starting point for the Dutch struggle for freedom. Nowadays, only the castle's keep is still fully preserved, the rest of the complex lying in ruins.
caption: Ruins of the Ginsburg over Hilchenbach-Grund
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