The Iron Mountain

In 1226, a young German noble plotted the unthinkable: to kidnap the Archbishop of Cologne. What followed was a cavalcade of murder, exile, torture and vengeance. The noble was named Friedrich von Isenberg.Eight centuries later, Robert Isenberg traveled to Germany to explore Friedrich's legacy. Picking through the ruins of Castle Isenberg and surveying scant documentation, he began to assemble Friedrich's tragic tale. Part travelogue, part historical mystery, The Iron Mountain explores the bloody landscape of medieval Europe and its ghostly echoes in a small German town.