Castle
Burg Veldenstein
🇩🇪 Germany
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.
Burg Veldenstein ranks #3,274 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #253 of the 505 mapped in Germany. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 3,703 times in the last 60 days, more than 80% of the atlas. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Burg Veldenstein?
Burg Veldenstein stands in Germany, at 49.6293°, 11.5492°.
How famous is Burg Veldenstein?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #3,274 of 8,134 worldwide, and #253 in Germany. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Burg Veldenstein?
Burgruine Hohenstein, about 10 km away.
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