Burgk Castle

Burgk Castle (c. 1403) is a schloss and former castle in the county of Saale-Orla-Kreis in the Thuringian Highlands of Germany, which today houses a museum that portrays the princely lifestyle of years gone by. From the time of its construction in the Middle Ages to 1945 it belonged to the House of Reuß.

The schloss and village of Burgk lie on an exposed site on a rock plateau above the village of Burgkhammer and the eponymous reservoir on a bend in the Saale River. It is nine kilometres from the A 9 motorway (Berlin–Munich).

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Burgk Castle ranks #4,697 of 8,764 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #381 of the 618 mapped in Germany. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 2,088 times in the last 60 days, more than 69% of the atlas. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Karlovy Vary, 90 km away. It is one of the 34 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Thuringia. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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