France · 12th century
The Château de Saint-Ulrich (also known as Château de Grand-Ribeaupierre or Ulrichsburg) is one of three castles (with the Girsberg and the Haut-Ribeaupierre) which overlooks the commune of Ribeauvillé in the Haut-Rhin département of France. It is situated at an altitude of 528 m.
The present name of the site is from the chapel dedicated to Saint Ulrich of Augsburg which is found in the castle. Medieval texts never gave the present name - the castle had the name of the Rappolstein dynasty (or Ribeaupierre in the French style).
Text adapted from “Château de Saint-Ulrich” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Château de Saint-Ulrich ranks #2,651 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #205 of the 787 mapped in France. Founded c. 1200, it is older than 75% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 763 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,874 times in the last 60 days, more than 68% of the atlas. 19 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Colmar, 14 km away. It is one of the 63 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Alsace. It is stop 27 of 32 on the Alsace castle route, Wissembourg to Mulhouse. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
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