🇩🇪 Germany
125 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 Mannheim Palace, 1 km south-west of the city centre; the most famous is Heidelberg Castle — #103 of 8,133 worldwide — 20 km south-east. The oldest dated site in the circle is Limes Germanicus, founded 9.
The 100 km circle reaches into 2 countries — Germany (113), France (12).
20 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…
14 km south-east · 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…
1 km south-west · Palace & château
Mannheim Palace is a large Baroque palace in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
22 km north-east · Castle
The Starkenburg is a hilltop castle at 295 m above sea level on the Schlossberg above Heppenheim an der Bergstraße.
17 km north-east · 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.
15 km east · Ruin
The Strahlenburg, also called Schloss Strahlenberg, is the ruin of a hilltop castle in Schriesheim in the Rhein-Neckar district in Baden-Württemberg.
24 km west · Ruin
Neuleiningen Castle is a ruin on the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany in the municipality of…
24 km west · Ruin
Battenberg Castle is a castle ruin near Battenberg in the county of Bad Dürkheim in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
37 km north-east · Castle
Frankenstein Castle is a hilltop castle in the Odenwald overlooking the city of Darmstadt in Germany.
53 km south · 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,…
31 km south-west · Castle
Hambach Castle is a castle near the urban district Hambach of Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
48 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…
41 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.
58 km north · Fortress
The Mainzer Zitadelle is situated at the fringe of Mainz Old Town, near Mainz Römisches Theater station.
56 km north · Palace & château
Schloss Wolfsgarten is a former hunting lodge in located near Langen in Hesse, Germany, approximately 15 kilometers south of Frankfurt am Main.
59 km north · Palace & château
The Electoral Palace in Mainz is the former city Residenz of the Prince-elector and Archbishop of Mainz.
59 km north · Fortress
The Fortress of Mainz was a fortressed garrison town between 1620 and 1918. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, under the term of the 1815 Peace of…
54 km south · Palace & château
Karlsburg Castle in the Durlach district of Karlsruhe characterizes the history of the Baden since 1563.
27 km north-east · Castle
Auerbach Castle is one of several fortresses along the Bergstrasse in southern Hesse, Germany.
32 km north-east · Castle
Schloss Heiligenberg is a castle to the east of Jugenheim, part of Seeheim-Jugenheim, about 12 kilometres to the south of Darmstadt, Germany.
+ 24 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.
84 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,…
75 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…
83 km north-west · Castle
Pfalzgrafenstein Castle, also known as the Pfalz, is a toll castle situated on Falkenau island in the Rhine River, adjacent to Kaub, Germany.
92 km north-west · Ruin
Rheinfels Castle is a castle ruin located above the left bank of the Rhine in Sankt Goar, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
87 km north · Fortress
The Saalburg is a Roman fort located on the main ridge of the Taunus, northwest of Bad Homburg, Hessen, Germany.
78 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…
73 km north-east · Palace & château
Schloss Johannisburg is a schloss in the town of Aschaffenburg, in Franconia, in the state of Bavaria, Germany.
95 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.
91 km north-west · Castle
Katz Castle is a castle above the German town of Sankt Goarshausen in Rhineland-Palatinate.
95 km south-east · Castle
The Old Palace is a former castle located on the Schillerplatz in Stuttgart, Germany.
71 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.
81 km north-west · Castle
Stahleck Castle is a 12th-century fortified castle in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley at Bacharach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
+ 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 Q2119.
The Castlemap atlas maps 125 landmarks (50 castles · 5 fortresses · 22 palaces & châteaux · 48 ruins) within 100 km of the centre of Mannheim, measured straight-line — a curated selection of well-documented landmarks, not a count of every fortification ever built.
Mannheim Palace, a palace 1 km south-west of the city centre.
Heidelberg Castle, ranked #103 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's fame ranking — 20 km south-east from Mannheim.
The oldest dated landmark in the circle is Limes Germanicus, founded 9 — 75 km east. Earlier structures may have existed; this is the oldest with a documented founding year.
Nearby city guides: Heidelberg (20 km) · Kaiserslautern (51 km) · Karlsruhe (53 km) · Wiesbaden (68 km). See also medieval castles · all rankings · castles by country.
