Czech Republic · 12th century
Cheb Castle (also Burg Eger, Czech Chebský hrad) is an imperial palatinate, castle and fortress complex above the river Ohře in the town of Cheb in the west of the Czech Republic.
Machine-translated from “Burg Cheb” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cheb Castle ranks #4,301 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #119 of the 243 mapped in Czech Republic. 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 1,369 times in the last 60 days, more than 59% of the atlas. 5 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Karlovy Vary, 40 km away. It is one of the 189 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Bohemia. See how Czech Republic compares in the castle statistics.
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