Germany · 12th century
Greifenstein Castle is a medieval castle ruin near Bad Blankenburg in the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt in Thuringia. With an area of around 25,000 square metres, it is one of the largest castle ruins in Germany.
Machine-translated from “Burg Greifenstein (Bad Blankenburg)” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Burg Greifenstein ranks #7,656 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #679 of the 711 mapped in Germany. Founded 1137, it is older than 83% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 756 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. 4 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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