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Garz Castle
🇩🇪 Germany
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.
Garz Castle ranks #298 of 6,412 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #51 of the 450 mapped in Germany. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Garz Castle?
Garz Castle stands in Germany, at 54.3142°, 13.3472°.
How famous is Garz Castle?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #298 of 6,412 worldwide, and #51 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 Garz Castle?
Granitz Hunting Lodge, about 20 km away.
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