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Burg Saarburg

Germany · 10th century

Founded
964
Heritage status
cultural heritage monument in Rhineland-Palatinate
Location
Saarburg
Coordinates
49.6096°, 6.55514°
Links
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Burg Saarburg in Germany
Photo: Klein R. · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Saarburg is the ruin of a hill castle on a southern spur of the 206,5 m ü. NHN high Schloßberg above the town of Saarburg in the district of Trier-Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate. It is one of the oldest hill castles in the west of Germany.

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

In the rankings

Burg Saarburg ranks #7,469 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #820 of the 927 mapped in Germany. Founded 964, it is older than 92% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 206 atlas entries founded in the 10th century. 10 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Trier, 17 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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