Burg Falkenberg

Burg Falkenberg stands in the market town of Falkenberg in the Upper Palatinate, in the district of Tirschenreuth in Bavaria. It is listed as an architectural monument under file number D-3-77-117-1. In addition, "archaeological findings of the Middle Ages and the early modern period in the area of Burg Falkenberg, among them traces of predecessor buildings or older building phases and of the vanished outer bailey" are recorded as a ground monument under file number D-3-6139-0082.

Machine-translated from “Burg Falkenberg” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Burg Falkenberg ranks #4,249 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #324 of the 505 mapped in Germany. Founded 1154, it is older than 81% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 564 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,432 times in the last 60 days, more than 58% of the atlas. The nearest day-trip guide is Karlovy Vary, 62 km away. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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