Castle
Blankenburg Castle
🇩🇪 Germany · 12th century
Great Blankenburg Castle (German: Schloss Blankenburg) was built on the limestone hill of Blankenstein (305 m above sea level (NN)) in the town of Blankenburg in the district of Harz in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Nearby is the Little Castle with its Baroque garden, tea house and museum, the town wall, the pheasant garden, the castle park and the castle pond.
Text adapted from “Blankenburg Castle (Harz)” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Blankenburg Castle ranks #2,338 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #165 of the 349 mapped in Germany. Founded 1123, it is older than 88% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 267 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
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