Kasselburg Castle in Pelm is a ruin dating from the 12th century. Its 37-metre-high twin towers overlook the Kyll Valley and Pelm. The grounds are also home to the Kasselburg Eagle and Wolf Park. This brings together two local highlights: historic architecture and wildlife watching.
Visitors to the park can see wolves, eagles, falcons and other birds of prey. The programme includes scheduled birds of prey flight displays and wolf feedings. As the schedule may change, check the latest times before your visit. If you particularly want to see a display or feeding, plan your day around the current schedule.
Hiking and cycling in Pelm
Pelm is connected to the Eifelsteig hiking trail network and the Kyll Cycle Route. This offers different ways to explore: walking trails and a cycling route along the Kyll. Buses that carry bicycles also make longer rides to the NĂĽrburgring and the Moselle possible. Check local trail and transport conditions before setting out on a specific tour.
Volcanic Eifel: volcanism and museums
The wider Volcanic Eifel destination puts the region’s volcanic history into perspective in terms of scale and time. To date, 77 maars have been identified there; 350 eruption centres have also been counted, around 270 of them from the more recent phase. The Ulmen Maar marks the most recent volcanic eruption in the Volcanic Eifel, which took place around 10,900 years ago.
The region’s museums each have a different focus. The Eifel Volcano Museum in Daun features three-dimensional landscape models of cinder cones, maars and mineral springs, as well as exhibits on West Eifel volcanism. The Volcano House in Strohn is an interactive museum with a lava fissure wall around 30,000 years old, approximately six metres long and four metres high. The Gerolstein Natural History Museum is considered the Eifel’s largest and oldest geo-museum and displays stone evidence from the region’s geological history across three floors. You can choose between landscape models, an interactive museum and an exhibition spread across several floors.
Hiking routes in the Volcanic Eifel
The Volcanic Eifel trails lead to scenic highlights on both sides of the Eifelsteig. They are marked and signposted, and the network includes half-day hikes, full-day hikes and multi-day walks. The eleventh stage of the Eifelsteig runs from Daun to Manderscheid and is 23.4 kilometres long. The Vulcano Trail is a 26.2-kilometre circular route east of Schalkenmehren. The distances are similar, but the formats differ: one is a stage with named start and end points, while the other is a circular route. Trail conditions may change, so check them before setting off. As a mountain-biking option in the wider destination, the Volcanic Eifel Trail Park has a network of around 750 kilometres of trails with more than 17,500 metres of elevation gain in total.
Discover more destinations: Salm, Neroth, Oos, Hohenfels-Essingen, Gees, Densborn, Rockeskyll, Kalenborn-Scheuern
For the wider travel overview: Gerolstein.
