Germany · 11th century
Burg Volmarstein ranks #5,949 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #524 of the 714 mapped in Germany. Founded 1100, it is older than 85% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 439 atlas entries founded in the 11th century. 8 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Wuppertal, 18 km away. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
Burg Volmarstein is the ruin of a hill castle in the Volmarstein district of the town of Wetter (Ruhr) in the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia. It lies in the landscape protection area In der Bach/Am Vorberg and is entered as architectural monument No. 51 in the monument list of Wetter.
Machine-translated from “Burg Volmarstein” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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