Germany
Garz Castle ranks #7,376 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #663 of the 714 mapped in Germany. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
Garz Castle is a Slavic fort, of the type known as a burgwall, located southwest of the town of Garz on the German Baltic Sea island of Rügen. The earthworks have an oval shape, are about 200 metres long and 140 metres wide. There is an entrance roughly in the middle of the western side. Towards the lake of Garzer See to the south (in the direction of Renz) the ramparts are lower. It lies up to 15 metres higher than the town of Garz.
Text adapted from “Garz Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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