They actually left out the most important part. Eltz castle is basically an aristocratic co-op. It’s something called a Ganerbenburg—a castle owned by multiple families. Basically only a super rich noble family could afford a big castle—so sometimes multiple small noble families, knights, and branches of the same family would team up to be able to pay for one collective castle. So Eltz has multiple separate sections for different owners—and then they would all team up if say the castle was attacked. That’s what gives it this distinctive cluster structure. I thought it still had multiple owners? Maybe they’re branches of this same family.
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