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Waxenberg Castle

Austria · 13th century

Founded
1300
Heritage status
Listed objects in Austria
Location
Oberneukirchen
Coordinates
48.47519°, 14.18851°
Links
Wikimedia Commons
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Waxenberg Castle in Austria
Photo: Wolfgang Sauber · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The castle ruin of Waxenberg is the ruin of a hill castle above the village centre of Waxenberg in the municipality of Oberneukirchen in the Mühlviertel in Upper Austria. The present-day ruin was built before 1300 and burned down in 1756 after a lightning strike. The ruin is owned by the Starhemberg family and has been renovated by the Kulturverein Waxenberg since the 1950s.

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

In the rankings

Waxenberg Castle ranks #8,619 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #303 of the 316 mapped in Austria. Founded 1300, it is older than 61% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1134 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. 8 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Linz, 20 km away. See how Austria compares in the castle statistics.

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