🇩🇪 Germany
56 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, 1 km south of the city centre; the most famous is Hohenzollern Castle — #54 of 7,738 worldwide — 53 km south. The oldest dated site in the circle is Limes Germanicus, founded 9.
Every one of them stands in Germany — the country page shows the full national picture.
14 km north · Palace & château · #380 worldwide
Ludwigsburg Palace, nicknamed the "Versailles of Swabia", is a 452-room palace complex of 18 buildings located in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg,…
1 km north-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.
1 km south · Castle
The Old Palace is a former castle located on the Schillerplatz in Stuttgart, Germany.
7 km west · Palace & château
Solitude Palace is a Rococo schloss and hunting retreat commissioned by Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg.
15 km north · Fortress
Hohenasperg, located in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg near Stuttgart, Germany, of which it is administratively part, is an ancient fortress…
16 km north · Palace & château
Monrepos is a lakeside schloss in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Although quite far and almost separate from Favorite Palace and Ludwigsburg Palace, it is…
14 km north · Palace & château
Schloss Favorite is a Baroque maison de plaisance and hunting lodge in Ludwigsburg, Germany, which was used as a summer residence and hunting lodge.
3 km north-east · Palace & château
Rosenstein Castle is a palace in Stuttgart, Germany. It was designed in the classical style by the architect and court builder Giovanni Salucci as…
7 km east · Ruin
Wirtemberg Castle, a ruined hilltop castle, is the second family seat of the House of Württemberg, whose ancestors had abandoned Beutelsbach Castle.
10 km east · Fortress
The so-called Esslinger Burg in Esslingen am Neckar is a surviving part of the medieval town fortifications, situated above the former and…
53 km south · Castle · #54 worldwide
Hohenzollern Castle is the ancestral seat of the formerly imperial House of Hohenzollern.
42 km south · Palace & château · #156 worldwide
Lichtenstein Castle is a privately owned Gothic Revival castle located in the Swabian Jura of southern Germany.
40 km east · Ruin
Hohenstaufen Castle is a ruined castle in Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
30 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…
58 km north-west · 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.
57 km north-west · Palace & château
Karlsburg Castle in the Durlach district of Karlsruhe characterizes the history of the Baden since 1563.
30 km south · Castle
Schloss Hohentübingen, with its Protestant castle church, lies centrally in the town of Tübingen on a spur of hill.
56 km north-east · Castle
Neuenstein Castle is a castle in the middle of the town of Neuenstein. Built as the seat of the Hohenlohe-Neuenstein noble family, it now houses a…
60 km north · Ruin
Hornberg Castle is a partially ruined castle located on a steep outcrop above the Neckar valley above the village Neckarzimmern, between Bad Wimpfen…
29 km south-east · Ruin
Hohenneuffen Castle is a large ruined castle in the northern foothills of the Swabian Alb, above the town of Neuffen in the district of Esslingen in…
56 km north · Castle
Burg Guttenberg is a late medieval hilltop castle above Neckarmühlbach, a part of Haßmersheim in the Neckar-Odenwald district in Baden-Württemberg.
44 km east · Ruin
Hohenrechberg Castle is a ruined castle in Schwäbisch Gmünd in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
+ 7 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.
78 km north-west · Ruin · #98 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…
77 km south · Castle · #383 worldwide
Sigmaringen Castle was the princely castle and seat of government for the Princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.
84 km north · 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…
62 km north-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,…
81 km north-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…
98 km north-west · Castle
Hambach Castle is a castle near the urban district Hambach of Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
94 km north-west · Palace & château
Mannheim Palace is a large Baroque palace in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
99 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…
69 km west · Ruin
Hohenbaden Castle in German Baden-Baden was the residence of the margraves of Baden for almost 400 years.
72 km west · Palace & château
Schloss Rastatt, also known as Residenzschloss Rastatt, is a Baroque schloss in Rastatt, Germany.
81 km south · Castle
Burg Wildenstein, a fortified spur castle, built between 1200 and 1300 A.D., is situated above the Danube break-through at the Swabian Alb in…
69 km west · Castle
The New Castle on the Florentinerberg in Baden-Baden was the seat of the Margraves of Baden from the late 15th century to the end of the 17th century…
+ 15 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.
Distances are straight-line from the city centre. City coordinates and population: Wikidata Q1022.
The Castlemap atlas maps 56 landmarks (22 castles · 3 fortresses · 13 palaces & châteaux · 18 ruins) within 100 km of the centre of Stuttgart, measured straight-line — a curated selection of well-documented landmarks, not a count of every fortification ever built.
Old Castle, a castle 1 km south of the city centre.
Hohenzollern Castle, ranked #54 of 7,738 worldwide in the atlas's fame ranking — 53 km south from Stuttgart.
The oldest dated landmark in the circle is Limes Germanicus, founded 9 — 84 km north. Earlier structures may have existed; this is the oldest with a documented founding year.
Nearby city guides: Karlsruhe (63 km) · Heidelberg (78 km) · Mannheim (95 km) · Strasbourg (107 km). See also medieval castles · all rankings · castles by country.
