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Burg Montclair

Germany

Heritage status
architectural heritage monument
Location
Mettlach
Coordinates
49.4956°, 6.55778°
Links
Wikimedia Commons
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Burg Montclair in Germany
Photo: LoKiLeCh · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Burg Montclair (“Munzlar”) (Lat. mons clarus = bright mountain) is a medieval castle ruin near Mettlach, a municipality in the district of Merzig-Wadern (Saarland). In the Middle Ages the castle was one of the most important fortifications on the lower Saar and served to control the river as a traffic artery. At almost 900 metres in length, the predecessor complex “Alt-Montclair”, razed in 1351, was among the largest castles of the High Middle Ages in Germany.

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

In the rankings

Burg Montclair ranks #6,577 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #686 of the 927 mapped in Germany. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,128 times in the last 60 days, more than 59% of the atlas. 8 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Trier, 30 km away. It is one of the 54 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Moselle. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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