Burg Reichenberg

Burg Reichenberg is a medieval castle complex above the municipality of Reichenberg. The latter belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Loreley with its seat in Sankt Goarshausen in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate. The castle is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Upper Middle Rhine Valley and stands as a hilltop castle at 230 m above sea level above the Hasenbach valley, through which the Bundesstraße 274 leads from the Rhine at Sankt Goarshausen via Nastätten to Katzenelnbogen. Securing this road connection was of importance for the building of the castle at the time.

Machine-translated from “Burg Reichenberg (Rheinland-Pfalz)” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Burg Reichenberg ranks #5,907 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #456 of the 505 mapped in Germany. Founded 1319, it is older than 62% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 604 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. 30 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Koblenz, 25 km away. It is one of the 33 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Middle Rhine. It is stop 14 of 27 on the Rhine castle route, Bingen to Koblenz. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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