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Ruine Falkenburg

Germany · 12th century

Founded
1190
Heritage status
architectural heritage monument in North Rhine-Westphalia
Location
Detmold
Coordinates
51.8759°, 8.87975°
Links
Wikimedia Commons
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Ruine Falkenburg in Germany
Photo: Tsungam · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Ruine Falkenburg in the Teutoburg Forest is a castle ruin in the Gemarkung of Detmold in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Lippe in Germany. The former hill castle was built from about 1190 and abandoned in the first half of the 16th century.

Machine-translated from “Ruine Falkenburg (Detmold)” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Ruine Falkenburg ranks #5,890 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #567 of the 927 mapped in Germany. Founded 1190, it is older than 78% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 810 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 2,052 times in the last 60 days, more than 74% of the atlas. 4 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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