Germany
140 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 Karlsruhe Palace, 1 km south-east of the city centre; the most famous is Hohenzollern Castle (#58 of 9,040 worldwide) 88 km south-east. The oldest dated site in the circle is Limes Germanicus, founded c. 83.
The 100 km circle reaches into 2 countries: Germany (99), France (41).
1 km south-east · 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,…
23 km south-west · Palace & château
Schloss Rastatt, also known as Residenzschloss Rastatt, is a Baroque schloss in Rastatt, Germany.
19 km north-east · 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.
6 km east · Palace & château
Karlsburg Castle in the Durlach district of Karlsruhe characterizes the history of the Baden since 1563.
25 km south-west · Palace & château
Schloss Favorite is a schloss on the outskirts of Rastatt-Förch in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
2 km south-east · Palace & château
Gottesaue Palace is a Renaissance palace in Karlsruhe's Oststadt district, on the grounds of a former Benedictine abbey, which has been destroyed and…
49 km north-east · Ruin · #102 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…
60 km east · Palace & château · #378 worldwide
Ludwigsburg Palace, nicknamed the "Versailles of Swabia", is a 452-room palace complex of 18 buildings located in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg,…
43 km north · 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…
40 km north-west · Castle
Hambach Castle is a castle near the urban district Hambach of Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
52 km north · Palace & château
Mannheim Palace is a large Baroque palace in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
37 km north-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…
56 km south-east · Palace & château
Solitude Palace is a Rococo schloss and hunting retreat commissioned by Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg.
29 km south-west · Ruin
Hohenbaden Castle in German Baden-Baden was the residence of the margraves of Baden for almost 400 years.
55 km east · Fortress
Hohenasperg, located in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg near Stuttgart, Germany, of which it is administratively part, is an ancient fortress…
46 km west · Ruin
Château de Fleckenstein is a ruined castle in the commune of Lembach, in the Bas-Rhin département of France.
57 km east · Palace & château
Monrepos is a lakeside schloss in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Although quite far and almost separate from Favorite Palace and Ludwigsburg Palace, it is…
40 km west · Castle
Berwartstein Castle is a castle in the Wasgau, the southern part of the Palatinate Forest in the state Rhineland-Palatinate in southwestern Germany.
+ 41 more in this range: every one is on the interactive map.
88 km south-east · Castle · #58 worldwide
Hohenzollern Castle is the ancestral seat of the formerly imperial House of Hohenzollern.
93 km south-east · Palace & château · #163 worldwide
Lichtenstein Castle is a privately owned Gothic Revival castle located in the Swabian Jura of southern Germany.
96 km north-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…
89 km north · Ruin
Frankenstein Castle is a hilltop castle in the Odenwald overlooking the city of Darmstadt in Germany.
68 km south-west · Palace & château
The Palais Rohan in Strasbourg is the former residence of the prince-bishops and cardinals of the House of Rohan, an ancient French noble family…
63 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.
63 km south-east · Castle
The Old Palace is a former castle located on the Schillerplatz in Stuttgart, Germany.
92 km south-east · Ruin
Teck Castle was a ducal castle in the kingdom of Württemberg, immediately to the north of the Swabian Jura and south of the town of Kirchheim unter…
86 km south-west · Fortress
The Fort de Mutzig, also known as Feste Kaiser Wilhelm II, is located near the town of Mutzig, in the Bas-Rhin department of France.
67 km south-west · Palace & château
The Palais du Rhin, the former Kaiserpalast, is a building situated in the German quarter of Strasbourg, dominating the Place de la République with…
82 km west · Palace & château
Rohan Castle, also known as Château Neuf or the Château de Saverne, is an eighteenth-century neoclassical palace in the city of Saverne in Alsace,…
73 km south-east · Castle
Schloss Hohentübingen, with its Protestant castle church, lies centrally in the town of Tübingen on a spur of hill.
+ 69 more in this range: every one is on the interactive map.
Distances are straight-line from the city centre. City coordinates and population: Wikidata Q1040.
The Castle Map atlas maps 140 landmarks (29 castles · 7 fortresses · 30 palaces & châteaux · 74 ruins) within 100 km of the centre of Karlsruhe, measured straight-line: a curated selection of well-documented landmarks, not a count of every fortification ever built.
Karlsruhe Palace, a palace 1 km south-east of the city centre.
Hohenzollern Castle, ranked #58 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's fame ranking: 88 km south-east from Karlsruhe.
The oldest dated landmark in the circle is Limes Germanicus, founded c. 83: 96 km north-east. Earlier structures may have existed; this is the oldest with a documented founding year.
Nearby city guides: Heidelberg (49 km) · Mannheim (53 km) · Stuttgart (63 km) · Kaiserslautern (66 km). See also medieval castles · all rankings · castles by country.
