Germany · 12th century
Thann Castle ranks #6,916 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #618 of the 714 mapped in Germany. Founded c. 1200, it is older than 75% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 763 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. 6 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
Thann Castle, also called Burgthann, is the ruin of a spur castle on a mountain spur 420 m above sea level above the valley of the Schwarzach in the municipality of Burgthann in the Middle Franconian district of Nürnberger Land in Bavaria.
Machine-translated from “Burg Thann” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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