🇩🇪 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 is Old Castle (Koblenz), 1 km north-west of the city centre; the most famous is Eltz Castle — #70 of 7,738 worldwide — 25 km south-west. The oldest dated site in the circle is Celtic circular wall of Otzenhausen, founded c. 350 BC.
Every one of them stands in Germany — the country page shows the full national picture.
1 km north-east · Fortress · #289 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…
10 km south · Castle
The Marksburg is a castle above the town of Braubach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
6 km south · 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…
24 km south · Ruin
Rheinfels Castle is a castle ruin located above the left bank of the Rhine in Sankt Goar, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
25 km south · Castle
Katz Castle is a castle above the German town of Sankt Goarshausen in Rhineland-Palatinate.
15 km 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…
22 km south · Castle
Maus Castle is a castle above the village of Wellmich in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
1 km south-east · Palace & château
The Electoral Palace in Koblenz, was the residence of the last Archbishop and Elector of Trier, Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony, who commissioned the…
6 km south · Castle
Lahneck Castle is a medieval fortress located in the city of Lahnstein in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, south of Koblenz.
17 km south · Castle
Liebenstein Castle is a castle above the village of Kamp-Bornhofen in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
16 km south-west · Ruin
The ruins of the Thurant Castle stand on a wide slate hill spur above the villages of Alken on the Moselle in Germany.
16 km south · Ruin
Sterrenberg Castle is a castle above the village of Kamp-Bornhofen in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
+ 9 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.
25 km south-west · Castle · #70 worldwide
Eltz Castle is a medieval castle nestled in the hills above the Moselle between Koblenz and Trier, Germany.
39 km south-west · Fortress
Reichsburg Cochem is a castle complex in the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Cochem on the Moselle.
44 km north-west · Palace & château
Schloss Drachenburg or Drachenburg Castle is a private villa styled as a palace and constructed in the late 19th century.
30 km west · 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.
33 km south · Castle
Pfalzgrafenstein Castle, also known as the Pfalz, is a toll castle situated on Falkenau island in the Rhine River, adjacent to Kaub, Germany.
53 km north-west · 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…
59 km east · Palace & château
Situated atop a basalt hill, Braunfels Castle overlooks the spa town of Braunfels in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hesse, Germany.
45 km south-east · Castle
Rheinstein Castle is a castle near the town of Trechtingshausen in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The castle was constructed in about 1316/1317.
36 km south · Castle
Stahleck Castle is a 12th-century fortified castle in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley at Bacharach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
58 km south-east · Palace & château
Biebrich Palace is a Baroque residence in the borough of Biebrich in the city of Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany.
27 km east · Palace & château
Schaumburg Castle is a schloss in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, south of Balduinstein near Limburg an der Lahn.
46 km west · Ruin
The Nürburg is a ruined hilltop castle in the German Eifel Mountains near the village of Nürburg south of Adenau in the district of Ahrweiler in the…
+ 40 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.
95 km south-west · Fortress · #84 worldwide
The Porta Nigra, referred to by locals as the Porta, is a large Roman city gate in Trier, Germany.
99 km south-east · Castle
Frankenstein Castle is a hilltop castle in the Odenwald overlooking the city of Darmstadt in Germany.
68 km east · 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…
92 km north · Castle
Burg Castle, located in Burg an der Wupper, is the largest reconstructed castle in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and a popular tourist attraction.
97 km north-east · Castle
The Marburger Schloss, also known as Landgrafenschloss Marburg, is a castle in Marburg, Hesse, Germany, located on top of Schlossberg.
74 km north-west · Palace & château
Bensberg Castle is a former royal hunting lodge in Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
96 km south-west · Palace & château
The Electoral Palace in Trier, Germany, was the residence of the Archbishops and Electors of Trier from the 16th century until the late 18th century.
70 km west · Castle
Lissingen Castle is a well-preserved former moated castle dating to the 13th century.
63 km south-east · Fortress
The Mainzer Zitadelle is situated at the fringe of Mainz Old Town, near Mainz Römisches Theater station.
85 km south-east · Palace & château
Schloss Wolfsgarten is a former hunting lodge in located near Langen in Hesse, Germany, approximately 15 kilometers south of Frankfurt am Main.
64 km north-east · Ruin
Castle Dillenburg, in the provincial town of Dillenburg in Hesse-Nassau, is situated on a hill above the Dill river, 25 miles northwest from Gießen…
84 km east · Ruin
Münzenberg Castle is a ruined hill castle in the town of the same name in the Wetteraukreis, Hesse, Germany. It dates from the 12th century.
+ 32 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.
Distances are straight-line from the city centre. City coordinates and population: Wikidata Q3104.
The Castlemap atlas maps 117 landmarks (49 castles · 7 fortresses · 18 palaces & châteaux · 43 ruins) within 100 km of the centre of Koblenz, measured straight-line — a curated selection of well-documented landmarks, not a count of every fortification ever built.
Old Castle (Koblenz), a castle 1 km north-west of the city centre.
Eltz Castle, ranked #70 of 7,738 worldwide in the atlas's fame ranking — 25 km south-west from Koblenz.
The oldest dated landmark in the circle is Celtic circular wall of Otzenhausen, founded c. 350 BC — 92 km south-west. Earlier structures may have existed; this is the oldest with a documented founding year.
Nearby city guides: Wiesbaden (55 km) · Cologne (79 km) · Frankfurt (82 km) · Trier (96 km). See also medieval castles · all rankings · castles by country.
