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Neurathen Castle

🇩🇪 Germany · 11th century

Neurathen Castle in Germany
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Neurathen Castle (German: Felsenburg Neurathen), which was first mentioned by this name in 1755, is located near the famous Bastei rocks near Rathen in Saxon Switzerland in the German state of Saxony. This was once the largest rock castle in the region, but today only the rooms carved out of the rock, passages, the cistern and the beam supports of the former wooden superstructure have survived. In the years 1982–1984 parts of the extensive castle were used to build the open-air museum.

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Neurathen Castle ranks #2,821 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #209 of the 349 mapped in Germany. Founded 1100, it is older than 89% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 171 atlas entries founded in the 11th century. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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