Castle
Burg Bideneck
🇦🇹 Austria · 14th century
Burg Bideneck is a castle in Tyrol, Austria. Burg Bideneck is 198 metres (650 ft) above sea level.
Bidenegg Castle, [1] also known as Biedenegg, Bideneck, Biedeneck and as Burg, is a castle in the municipality of Fließ in western Austria .
The castle complex was first mentioned in a document in 1339. Relatively unprotected for a castle, it was accessible from a moderately rising slope. Striking are the twelve 1.5 meter high dovetail battlements that crown the keep and were brought into this form only recently.
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Burg Bideneck ranks #3,288 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #110 of the 131 mapped in Austria. Founded 1339, it is older than 63% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 220 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. See how Austria compares in the castle statistics.
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