3D print Eltz Castle
A free, printable model of Eltz Castle and the green hillside, river and paths around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Eltz Castle
Eltz Castle (Burg Eltz) is a medieval castle between Koblenz and Trier, Germany, set in hills over the Moselle. It belongs to a branch of the Eltz family, which has lived there since the 12th century. Together with Bürresheim Castle and Lissingen Castle, it is one of only three castles in the Eifel region that were never destroyed. It stands on a rock spur 70 m (230 ft) high, wrapped on three sides by the Elzbach, a tributary of the Moselle.
The castle is a Ganerbenburg: a castle shared by a community of joint heirs and split into parts that belong to different families or branches. The Eltz family had three branches, and three separate groups of buildings were added to the castle that stood there. The main part holds the family portions, with eight towers that reach between 30 and 40 m (98 and 131 ft). About 100 members of the owning families lived among its more than 100 rooms.
The Platteltz, a Romanesque keep on the site of an older manor hall, is the oldest part of the castle. Its only serious military conflicts came between 1331 and 1336, in the Eltz Feud, when Balduin von Trier laid siege to it for two years. Philipp zu Eltz began the 10-story Greater Rodendorf House in 1470, and it was finished around 1520. In the war of 1688 to 1689 the castle was spared because its lord, Hans Anton zu Eltz-Üttingen, was a senior officer in the French army of Louis XIV and had it struck from the demolition list.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 11 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 14 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 17 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Pointed turret roofs
- Many slim turrets and pointed roofs rise above the walls. Print friendly adapts these small spires to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- Half-timbering and dormers
- Framed wall panels, small dormers and chimneys are fine surface detail. A bigger print size keeps more of them, and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep them crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- Eltz Castle is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. Eltz Castle takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
Eltz Castle is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there an Eltz Castle STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. Eltz Castle grows with the print: about 11 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
