Germany
Altenburg ranks #6,751 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #600 of the 714 mapped in Germany. 5 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
The Altenburg is a hill in the county of Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hesse, Germany.
On its flat hilltop are the remains of a fairly large, fortified settlement from the Bronze Age and Iron Age.
Text adapted from “Altenburg (Niedenstein)” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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