🇩🇪 Germany
147 castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins within 100 km of the city centre — every one on the interactive map, with photos, distances and directions.
The closest is Schloss Bensberg, 15 km east of the city centre; the most famous is Eltz Castle — #75 of 8,133 worldwide — 86 km south. The oldest dated site in the circle is Kaiserpfalz Kaiserswerth, founded c. 700.
The 100 km circle reaches into 3 countries — Germany (88), Netherlands (49), Belgium (10).
15 km east · Palace & château
Bensberg Castle is a former royal hunting lodge in Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
35 km south-east · Palace & château
Schloss Drachenburg or Drachenburg Castle is a private villa styled as a palace and constructed in the late 19th century.
27 km south-east · Palace & château
Palais Schaumburg is a neoclassical-style building in Bonn, Germany, which served as the primary official seat of the German Federal Chancellery and…
26 km north-east · Castle
Burg Castle, located in Burg an der Wupper, is the largest reconstructed castle in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and a popular tourist attraction.
25 km north · Palace & château
Schloss Benrath is a Baroque-style maison de plaisance in Benrath, which is now a borough of Düsseldorf.
59 km north · Castle
Borbeck Castle is a Baroque moated castle in the Essen district of Borbeck. From the 14th century onward it served as the preferred residence of the…
25 km south-east · Palace & château
The Electoral Palace in Bonn is the former residential palace of the Prince-Electors of Cologne.
43 km north-west · Palace & château
Schloss Rheydt is a Renaissance palace in Rheydt, Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
46 km north · Castle
Landsberg Castle is a castle complex in the Ruhr valley within the municipal area of Ratingen, on the city boundary with Essen, in the immediate…
34 km north · Palace & château
The Schloss Jägerhof, formerly also called die Vénerie, is located at Jacobistraße 2 in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort, near the city centre.
34 km north · Ruin
The Düsseldorf castle at or in the Düsseldorfer Altstadt existed from 1260 to 1872 or 1896.
40 km south-west · Castle
Burg Satzvey is a medieval moated castle, originally from the 12th century, which lies on the northeastern edge of the Eifel in Mechernich in the…
36 km north-west · Castle
Castle Dyck is a moated castle in the Rhineland region of Germany. It is located in the municipality of Jüchen in Rhein-Kreis Neuss, North…
+ 22 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.
86 km south · Castle · #75 worldwide
Eltz Castle is a medieval castle nestled in the hills above the Moselle between Koblenz and Trier, Germany.
91 km west · Fortress · #233 worldwide
Fort Eben-Emael is an inactive Belgian fortress located between Liège and Maastricht, on the Belgian-Dutch border, near the Albert Canal, outside the…
79 km south-east · Fortress · #297 worldwide
Ehrenbreitstein Fortress, a fortress in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, stands on the east bank of the Rhine opposite the mouth of the…
64 km west · Palace & château
The Palace of Aachen was a group of buildings with residential, political, and religious purposes chosen by Charlemagne to be the center of power of…
89 km south-east · Castle
The Marksburg is a castle above the town of Braubach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
90 km south · Fortress
Reichsburg Cochem is a castle complex in the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Cochem on the Moselle.
84 km south-east · Castle
Stolzenfels Castle is a former medieval fortress castle turned into a palace, near Koblenz on the left bank of the Rhine, in the state of…
67 km south · Castle
Bürresheim Castle is a medieval castle northwest of Mayen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. It is built on rock in the Eifel mountains above the Nette.
97 km north-east · Palace & château
Schloss Nordkirchen is a palace situated in the town of Nordkirchen in the Coesfeld administrative district in the state of North Rhine Westphalia,…
92 km south-east · Castle
Nassau Castle, located in Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany and named after it, was a castle and the ancestrial seat of the House of Nassau and…
99 km north · Castle
Vischering Castle in Lüdinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia is the most typical moated castle in the Münster of Germany.
98 km south-east · Palace & château
Schaumburg Castle is a schloss in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, south of Balduinstein near Limburg an der Lahn.
+ 100 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.
Distances are straight-line from the city centre. City coordinates and population: Wikidata Q365.
The Castlemap atlas maps 147 landmarks (83 castles · 12 fortresses · 17 palaces & châteaux · 35 ruins) within 100 km of the centre of Cologne, measured straight-line — a curated selection of well-documented landmarks, not a count of every fortification ever built.
Schloss Bensberg, a palace 15 km east of the city centre.
Eltz Castle, ranked #75 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's fame ranking — 86 km south from Cologne.
The oldest dated landmark in the circle is Kaiserpfalz Kaiserswerth, founded c. 700 — 43 km north. Earlier structures may have existed; this is the oldest with a documented founding year.
Nearby city guides: Düsseldorf (34 km) · Wuppertal (39 km) · Duisburg (56 km) · Essen (57 km). See also medieval castles · all rankings · castles by country.
