Germany · 12th century
Schloss Waldeck (or Waldeck Castle) is a 12th-century castle complex, extended in the manner of a palace, within the town of Waldeck in the district of Waldeck-Frankenberg in Hesse, Germany.
Machine-translated from “Schloss Waldeck” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Schloss Waldeck ranks #2,147 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #169 of the 709 mapped in Germany. Founded c. 1150, it is older than 80% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 763 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 5,398 times in the last 60 days, more than 87% of the atlas. 6 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
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