Burg Veldenstein ranks #3,209 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #261 of the 714 mapped in Germany. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 3,703 times in the last 60 days, more than 82% of the atlas. 8 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
Burg Veldenstein [ˈfɛldn̩ˌʃtaɪ̯n] is a large, well preserved medieval hilltop castle above Neuhaus an der Pegnitz at the southern end of the Veldenstein Forest, about 50 kilometres northeast of Nuremberg in Bavaria.
Machine-translated from “Burg Veldenstein” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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