Castle
Reichenstein Castle
🇨🇭 Switzerland · 13th century
Reichenstein Castle (German: Burg Reichenstein) is a castle in the municipality of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Land in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
It is one of four castles on a slope called Birseck that confines the plain of the Birs river and is the sister castle to Birseck Castle.
1245-1813 the castle was a property of the Swiss noble family Reich von Reichenstein. This family also holds the Château de Landskron (France) and Inzlingen Castle (Germany).
Text adapted from “Reichenstein Castle (Arlesheim)” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Reichenstein Castle ranks #3,052 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #48 of the 91 mapped in Switzerland. Founded 1239, it is older than 76% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 356 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. See how Switzerland compares in the castle statistics.
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