Germany
Schönfels Castle is a typical hilltop castle at 393 m above sea level in the district of Schönfels in the municipality of Lichtentanne in the Saxon district of Zwickau. It was built in the 12th century on a rocky spur of diabase as the centre of a medieval settlement and a feudal seat. In the 15th and 16th centuries the castle was remodelled in the Late Gothic and Renaissance styles. A museum, opened in 1975, is housed in the castle.
Machine-translated from “Burg Schönfels” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Burg Schönfels ranks #6,904 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #617 of the 711 mapped in Germany. 5 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Karlovy Vary, 60 km away. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
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