Germany
The Frankenberg Castle (in German, Burg Frankenberg, and sometimes spelled Frankenburg) is a castle in the Frankenberg area of Aachen-Mitte, itself a district of Aachen, Germany. Shortly after its construction, the lowland castle became a fief of a Graf (basically equivalent to Count), and later belonged to the Duchy of Jülich-Cleves-Berg.
From 1961 until August 2010 the former water castle housed a museum that documented the history of the Aachen area, from its Stone Age flint mines, through the Roman thermal bath period, up to the Industrial Revolution.
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Frankenberg Castle (Aachen) ranks #6,743 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #598 of the 711 mapped in Germany. 28 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Aachen, 2 km away. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
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