Ruin
Saffenburg
🇩🇪 Germany
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.
Saffenburg ranks #5,587 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #430 of the 505 mapped in Germany. 16 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.
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Where is Saffenburg?
Saffenburg stands in Germany, at 50.5197°, 7.02322°.
How famous is Saffenburg?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #5,587 of 8,134 worldwide, and #430 in Germany. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Saffenburg?
Are Castle, about 2 km away.
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