Germany · 11th century
Burg Gleichen (also Wanderslebener Gleiche, Wandersleber Schloss, Wanderslebener Burg) is a medieval castle ruin in Thuringia, in the fields of Wandersleben near Gotha. It belongs to the castle ensemble of the Drei Gleichen and today is owned by the Thuringian Palaces and Gardens Foundation.
Machine-translated from “Burg Gleichen” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Burg Gleichen ranks #2,948 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #235 of the 709 mapped in Germany. Founded c. 1001, it is older than 91% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 439 atlas entries founded in the 11th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,940 times in the last 60 days, more than 69% of the atlas. 8 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. It is one of the 38 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Thuringia. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
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