Osterburg

The Osterburg (German: [ˈoːstɐbʊʁk]) is a castle located conspicuously on a hill in the middle of the town of Weida in the county of Greiz in the German state of Thuringia.

Its 54-metre-high bergfried is the third highest and one of the oldest surviving bergfrieds in Germany. Above its second array of battlements there is a watchman's parlour, which accommodated a watchman until 1917. On the terrace there is a monument which records that this was the furthest south that the ice sheet came in Germany during the Elster glaciation.

Text adapted from “Osterburg (Weida)” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Osterburg ranks #4,070 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #316 of the 505 mapped in Germany. Founded 1163, it is older than 81% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 563 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,119 times in the last 60 days, more than 51% of the atlas. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Karlovy Vary, 83 km away. It is one of the 22 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Thuringia. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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