Ruin
Frauenstein Castle
🇩🇪 Germany
The ruins of Frauenstein Castle (German: Burg Frauenstein) are located on a 680-metre-high (2,230 ft) granite rock on the crest of the Eastern Ore Mountains near the town of Frauenstein in the district of Mittelsachsen.
Text adapted from “Frauenstein Castle (Ore Mountains)” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Frauenstein Castle ranks #303 of 6,412 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #54 of the 450 mapped in Germany. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Frauenstein Castle?
Frauenstein Castle stands in Germany, at 50.804°, 13.5394°.
How famous is Frauenstein Castle?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #303 of 6,412 worldwide, and #54 in Germany. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Frauenstein Castle?
Purschenstein Castle, about 15 km away.
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