sentences:  Today, only a ruin is left standing.It was restored by the municipality of Eßweiler in the 1980s after an American academic, Professor Thomas Higel from the University of Maryland, had unearthed some remnants in the 1970s that had lain under a heap of rubble.The castle lies on "Landesstraße" 372; the Eßweiler-Oberweiler municipal limit passes right through the castle grounds.