Germany · 10th century
Ranis castle stands on the rock of a Zechstein reef, which forms part of a larger reef complex above the Orla valley, in and above the Thuringian town of Ranis not far from Pößneck, at an altitude of 405 m above sea level.
Machine-translated from “Burg Ranis” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ranis ranks #5,744 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #499 of the 711 mapped in Germany. Founded 1000, it is older than 91% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 193 atlas entries founded in the 10th century. 7 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. It is one of the 38 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Thuringia. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
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