Germany · 12th century
Burg Lauenstein ranks #5,263 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #452 of the 714 mapped in Germany. Founded c. 1150, it is older than 80% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 763 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,227 times in the last 60 days, more than 56% of the atlas. 5 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.
Burg Lauenstein is a medieval hilltop castle at 550 m above sea level above the Upper Franconian village of Lauenstein, a part of the town of Ludwigsstadt lying to the southeast of it. With its location in the north of the district of Kronach, the castle, whose oldest parts can be dated to the 12th century, is the northernmost castle in Bavaria.
Machine-translated from “Burg Lauenstein (Frankenwald)” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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