Castle Tanstein

Tanstein Castle (German: Burg Tanstein) is the ruin of a rock castle in the southern Palatine Forest, the German part of the Wasgau region. It lies just under a kilometre east of the small town of Dahn in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Castle Tanstein ranks #3,914 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #289 of the 349 mapped in Germany. Founded 1100, it is older than 89% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 171 atlas entries founded in the 11th century. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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