Ruin
Schenkenberg castle ruin
🇨🇭 Switzerland · 13th century
Schenkenberg Castle (German: Ruine Schenkenberg) is a castle ruin above the municipality of Thalheim in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It was built in the 13th Century by the Habsburg dynasty, was the administrative seat for 260 years of a bailiwick of the city of Bern and fell into ruin in the 18th century.
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Schenkenberg castle ruin ranks #3,282 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #65 of the 91 mapped in Switzerland. Founded 1243, 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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