Germany · 13th century
The Martinsburg, also called Martinsburg Palace or Martinsschloss, is a palace complex in Lahnstein. It was built in 1298 as a toll castle of the Archbishops of Mainz and originally bore the name Lahnstein Castle. Alongside the town wall of Lahnstein, the Archbishop of Mainz also built this complex, which is one of the few undestroyed castles on the Middle Rhine. It is today privately owned and houses, alongside apartments and offices, a carnival museum and a coin mint.
Machine-translated from “Martinsburg (Lahnstein)” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Martinsburg ranks #7,640 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #677 of the 711 mapped in Germany. Founded 1298, it is older than 63% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 1080 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. 33 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Koblenz, 7 km away. It is one of the 39 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Middle Rhine. It is stop 22 of 32 on the Rhine castle route, Bingen to Koblenz. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
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