🇩🇪 Germany
117 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 landmark is also the most famous: Heidelberg Castle, ranked #103 of 8,134 worldwide, 1 km south-east of the city centre. The oldest dated site in the circle is Limes Germanicus, founded 9.
The 100 km circle reaches into 2 countries — Germany (106), France (11).
1 km south-east · Ruin · #103 worldwide
Heidelberg Castle is a ruin in Germany and landmark of Heidelberg. The castle ruins are among the most important Renaissance structures north of the…
11 km west · Palace & château
Schwetzingen Palace is a schloss in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Schwetzingen was the summer residence of the Electors Palatine Charles III…
20 km north-west · Palace & château
Mannheim Palace is a large Baroque palace in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
23 km east · Castle
Zwingenberg Castle, also known as Zwingenberg or Schloss Zwingenberg, stands on the right bank of the River Neckar where it cuts through the Odenwald…
15 km north · Ruin
Windeck Castle stands on a small hill in Weinheim on the Bergstraße. It was built around 1100 to protect the inhabitants of the Lorsch monastery.
9 km east · Ruin
Dilsberg Castle is a ruined castle located in Neckargemünd, Germany. It was built by the counts of Lauffen in the 12th century, but in the 14th…
8 km north-west · Ruin
The Strahlenburg, also called Schloss Strahlenberg, is the ruin of a hilltop castle in Schriesheim in the Rhein-Neckar district in Baden-Württemberg.
58 km east · Fortress
The Limes Germanicus, or 'Germanic Limes', is the name given in modern times to a line of frontier fortifications that bounded the ancient Roman…
42 km north · Castle
Frankenstein Castle is a hilltop castle in the Odenwald overlooking the city of Darmstadt in Germany.
50 km south-west · Palace & château
Karlsruhe Palace was built in 1715 for Margrave Charles III William of Baden-Durlach after a dispute with the citizens of his previous capital,…
44 km west · Castle
Hambach Castle is a castle near the urban district Hambach of Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
58 km south-west · Castle
Trifels Castle is a reconstructed medieval castle at an elevation of 500 m near the small town of Annweiler, in the Palatinate region of southwestern…
32 km south · Palace & château
Bruchsal Palace, also called the Damiansburg, is a Baroque palace complex located in Bruchsal, Germany. The complex is made up of over 50 buildings.
49 km south · Palace & château
Karlsburg Castle in the Durlach district of Karlsruhe characterizes the history of the Baden since 1563.
33 km north · Castle
Auerbach Castle is one of several fortresses along the Bergstrasse in southern Hesse, Germany.
38 km north · Castle
Schloss Heiligenberg is a castle to the east of Jugenheim, part of Seeheim-Jugenheim, about 12 kilometres to the south of Darmstadt, Germany.
33 km east · Ruin
Hornberg Castle is a partially ruined castle located on a steep outcrop above the Neckar valley above the village Neckarzimmern, between Bad Wimpfen…
43 km west · Ruin
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…
26 km north · Castle
The Starkenburg is a hilltop castle at 295 m above sea level on the Schlossberg above Heppenheim an der Bergstraße.
+ 16 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.
98 km north-east · Palace & château · #124 worldwide
The Würzburg Residence is a palace in Würzburg, Germany. Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt and Maximilian von Welsch, representatives of the…
67 km south-east · Palace & château · #389 worldwide
Ludwigsburg Palace, nicknamed the "Versailles of Swabia", is a 452-room palace complex of 18 buildings located in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg,…
97 km north-east · Fortress
Marienberg Fortress is a prominent landmark on the left bank of the Main river in Würzburg, in the Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany.
96 km north · Fortress
The Saalburg is a Roman fort located on the main ridge of the Taunus, northwest of Bad Homburg, Hessen, Germany.
88 km north · Palace & château
Schlosshotel Kronberg in Kronberg im Taunus, Hesse, near Frankfurt am Main, was built between 1889 and 1893 for the dowager German Empress Victoria…
70 km north-east · Palace & château
Schloss Johannisburg is a schloss in the town of Aschaffenburg, in Franconia, in the state of Bavaria, Germany.
78 km south-east · Palace & château
The New Palace is an 18th-century Baroque palace in Stuttgart and is one of the last large city palaces built in Southern Germany.
78 km south-east · Castle
The Old Palace is a former castle located on the Schillerplatz in Stuttgart, Germany.
89 km north-west · Castle
Rheinstein Castle is a castle near the town of Trechtingshausen in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The castle was constructed in about 1316/1317.
99 km north-west · Castle
Stahleck Castle is a 12th-century fortified castle in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley at Bacharach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
75 km south · Palace & château
Solitude Palace is a Rococo schloss and hunting retreat commissioned by Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg.
77 km north-west · Palace & château
Biebrich Palace is a Baroque residence in the borough of Biebrich in the city of Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany.
+ 70 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.
Distances are straight-line from the city centre. City coordinates and population: Wikidata Q2966.
The Castlemap atlas maps 117 landmarks (42 castles · 7 fortresses · 23 palaces & châteaux · 45 ruins) within 100 km of the centre of Heidelberg, measured straight-line — a curated selection of well-documented landmarks, not a count of every fortification ever built.
Heidelberg Castle, a ruin 1 km south-east of the city centre.
The oldest dated landmark in the circle is Limes Germanicus, founded 9 — 58 km east. Earlier structures may have existed; this is the oldest with a documented founding year.
Nearby city guides: Mannheim (20 km) · Karlsruhe (49 km) · Kaiserslautern (68 km) · Frankfurt (78 km). See also medieval castles · all rankings · castles by country.
