The German Castles Association (German: Deutsche Burgenvereinigung) or DBV is dedicated to the conservation of historic defensive and residential buildings as witnesses of history and culture and has its headquarters at Marksburg Castle above Braubach on the Rhine. It owns the organisation known as the European Castles Institute (Europäisches Burgeninstitut) or (EBI) whose library and archives are housed in Philippsburg Palace in Braubach.^[1]

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Entries in the castles inventory database EBIDAT

• Schweizerischer Burgenverein
• Südtiroler Burgeninstitut

• Website of the DBV
• Burgen and Schlosser, Journal of the Deutsche Burgenvereinigung, archive
• Databank of the European Castle Institute of the DBV
• Die Faszination der mittelalterlichen Burgen, interview on the work of the DBV with Alexander Fürst zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn at Monuments online