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Schloss Brandenstein

Germany · 13th century

Founded
1289
Location
Ranis
Coordinates
50.6693°, 11.5562°
Links
OpenStreetMap · Wikimedia Commons
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Schloss Brandenstein in Germany
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Description

Schloss Brandenstein, also known as Burg Brandenstein, stands on a Zechstein reef in the Brandenstein district of the town of Ranis in the Saale-Orla-Kreis in Thuringia.

Machine-translated from “Schloss Brandenstein” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Schloss Brandenstein ranks #5,159 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #455 of the 927 mapped in Germany. Founded 1289, it is older than 64% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1134 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 2,990 times in the last 60 days, more than 81% of the atlas. 11 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. It is one of the 46 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Thuringia. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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