Germany
Saffenburg ranks #5,978 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #528 of the 714 mapped in Germany. 19 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Koblenz, 44 km away. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
The Saffenburg, also called Saffenberg, is the ruin of a High Medieval hill castle at 253 m above sea level in the local municipality of Mayschoß in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Ahrweiler. It stands above the Ahr valley and is the valley's oldest castle ruin.
Machine-translated from “Saffenburg” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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