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In 1226 a young German commendable plotted the unthinkable: to kidnap the archbishop of Cologne. What used was a cavalcade of murder, exile, torture, and vengeance. The commendable was named Friedrich von Isenberg. Eight generations later article writer Robert Isenberg traveled to Germany to explore Friedrich's legacy. Picking through the ruins of Castle Isenberg and surveying scant documentation, he began to reassemble Friedrich's tragic tale. Part travelogue, part historical puzzle, The Iron Pile explores the bloody panorama of medieval Europe and its own ghostly echoes in a tiny German town.