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Schloss Kuckuckstein

Germany

Location
Liebstadt
Coordinates
50.8632°, 13.8588°
Links
Wikimedia Commons
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Schloss Kuckuckstein in Germany
Photo: Norbert Kaiser · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Schloss Kuckuckstein in Liebstadt in Saxony lies on a rocky outcrop (380 m ü. NN) above the river valley of the Seidewitz, at a location very favourable for controlling the trade route from the Elbe valley across the Eastern Ore Mountains to Bohemia (Kulmer Steig).

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

In the rankings

Schloss Kuckuckstein ranks #6,571 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #685 of the 927 mapped in Germany. 14 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Dresden, 22 km away. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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