Germany · 13th century
Beuggen Castle ranks #4,396 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #357 of the 714 mapped in Germany. Founded 1215, it is older than 74% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1091 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,284 times in the last 60 days, more than 57% of the atlas. 19 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Basel, 17 km away. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
Beuggen Castle, also called Buchem (1215), Buchein (1253), Bivcheim (1253), Büken (1266), Beukheim or Beuken, is a former moated castle situated 20 kilometres east of Basel on the Baden-Württemberg bank of the Rhine, within the territory of the town of Rheinfelden (Baden) in the district of Lörrach. For 560 years the complex served as a seat of the Teutonic Order in the bailiwick of Swabia-Alsace-Burgundy; it is the oldest surviving commandery of this order of knights. After the dissolution of the Teutonic Order commandery in 1806, the castle was used for two years as a military hospital during the Wars of Liberation against Napoleon Bonaparte.
According to one theory, Kaspar Hauser, whose identity has not been clarified to this day, lived in the castle for a year and a half between 1815 and 1816. From 1820 until 1980 it was a children's home. Until the end of 2016, Beuggen Castle served as a conference and meeting centre of the Protestant Regional Church in Baden and as a venue for various events.
Machine-translated from “Schloss Beuggen” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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