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Gutštejn Castle

🇨🇿 Czech Republic

Gutštejn Castle in the Czech Republic
Photo: Huhulenik · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Gutštejn Castle (German Guttenstein) is regarded as one of the most beautiful castle ruins in the Czech Republic. It stands in wooded, hilly countryside southeast of Konstantinovy Lázně (Konstantinsbad) in the Tachov District on a promontory above the Hadovka brook.

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

Gutštejn Castle ranks #5,634 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #170 of the 203 mapped in Czech Republic. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Plzeň, 29 km away. It is one of the 159 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Bohemia. See how Czech Republic compares in the castle statistics.

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Gutštejn Castle?

Gutštejn Castle stands in the Czech Republic, at 49.8518°, 13.0162°.

How famous is Gutštejn Castle?

In this atlas's fame ranking: #5,634 of 8,134 worldwide, and #170 in the Czech Republic. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.

What is the nearest castle to Gutštejn Castle?

Castle Buben, about 15 km away.

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