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Faber-Castell-Schloss

Germany · 19th century

Founded
1843
Heritage status
architectural heritage monument in Bavaria
Location
Stein
Coordinates
49.4174°, 11.0212°
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Faber-Castell-Schloss in Germany
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Description

The Faber Castle, also known as Stein Palace, Schloss Faber-Castell, or the Pencil Castle, is a historicist palace complex from the 19th and early 20th century, consisting of two building sections.

The palace is located in the Middle Franconian town of Stein, on the border with Nuremberg. The adjoining Faberpark partly belongs to Nuremberg.

Machine-translated from “Faberschloss” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Faber-Castell-Schloss ranks #3,007 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #242 of the 714 mapped in Germany. Founded 1843, it is older than 9% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 705 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 5,170 times in the last 60 days, more than 87% of the atlas. 7 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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