Germany · 13th century
Hardenburg ranks #3,993 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #328 of the 714 mapped in Germany. Founded 1205, it is older than 74% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1091 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,717 times in the last 60 days, more than 65% of the atlas. 13 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Mannheim, 25 km away. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
The Hardenburg on the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest near the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Bad Dürkheim is even as a ruin one of the mightiest castles of Palatinate. It was the residence of the Counts of Leiningen, who in 1725 moved to Schloss Dürkheim.
Text adapted from “Hardenburg (Bad Dürkheim)” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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