In Burglinster at the castle courtyard. The hiking trails J15/J10/ Extratour-D / PW 019 pass by.


Not far from the Behlenhof (parish of Junglinster), there is a very deep cave in the woods, known as the Behlenhöhle or “Rutschlay”. It is said that no one has ever reached the back of it. In the old days, they say, many evil-doers were cursed inside. The the 17th century, in the old Castle of Bourglinster, there lived an rich old women called Eva-Maria von Ziedewitz, who was called “die aal Ziedewitz”. She was the owner of the palace and every estate round about it. All the farmers in the surrounding region had to provide her with a tenth of the yearly harvest, and those who did not were thrown into the round tower beneath the castle, which can still be seen today. When the lady became very old and could no longer walk, she said to her coachman one day, “Coachman, harness two black horses and drive me to the Behlenhöhle”. So the coachman drove her to the Behlenhöhle. Along the way, she cried out from time to time, a mumbled words the coachman did not understand, and ordered him to drive the horses faster and faster. The horses were exhausted and the coachman began to sweat with fear. As they reached the Behlenhöhle, she ordered the coachman to return home and light the palace on fire; she would remain in the cave. From the mouth of the cave rose flames and the stench of sulfur. With a terrible laugh, the Ziedewitz disappeared into the cave. From that hour to this, she was never seen or heard from again. They say she was a terrible witch who could no longer live on the Earth, and so had built herself a new palace under the ground. And yet, by the light of a full moon, many is the time a reveler on his way home from the castle tavern has been given over to terror by an eerie white form on the palace bridge.