Leuchtenburg Castle

Leuchtenburg is a hilltop castle near Seitenroda in Thuringia. The restored medieval castle complex is used for tourism and houses the exhibition Porzellanwelten Leuchtenburg, a museum, and, as part of a modern annex, a walkway projecting into the valley known as the "Path of Wishes". The castle, on a widely visible conical hill 395 m above sea level, offers a broad panoramic view over the middle Saale valley and the Thuringian Holzland. Leuchtenburg is known as the "Queen of the Saale Valley". In its long and eventful history the castle complex served as a medieval administrative seat, a poorhouse, an asylum and a prison, and since the late 19th century it has been used for tourism. Since 2007 it has been managed by the Leuchtenburg Foundation.

Machine-translated from “Leuchtenburg (Seitenroda)” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Leuchtenburg Castle ranks #4,642 of 8,764 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #372 of the 618 mapped in Germany. Founded 1221, it is older than 76% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 906 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 2,220 times in the last 60 days, more than 70% of the atlas. 5 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. It is one of the 34 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Thuringia. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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