Ruined castles in Germany

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castle in Hesse, Germany

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castle ruins in Lörrach, Germany

The Rudelsburg is a ruined hill castle located on the east bank of the river Saale above Saaleck, a village in the borough of Naumburg in the county of Burgenlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The Rudelsburg was built in the Middle Ages by the Bishop of Naumburg and served to secure trade routes such as the Via Regia through the Saale Valley.

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building in Pfronten, Swabia, Germany

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castle ruin in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

castle ruin in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Castle in Dorf Mecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Castle in Hesse, Germany

castle in Bensheim, Hesse

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ruined castle in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

thumb The Burg Altenbaumburg, is a ruined castle above the municipality of Altenbamberg in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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building in Weinheim, Karlsruhe Government Region, Bade-Württemberg, Germany

Castle near Rheinbach, Germany

The Harzburg, also called Große Harzburg ("Great Harz Castle"), is a former imperial castle, situated on the northwestern edge of the Harz mountain range overlooking the spa resort of Bad Harzburg in Goslar District in the state of Lower Saxony, Germany. It was erected from 1065 to 1068 at the behest of King Henry IV of Germany, slighted during the Saxon Rebellion in 1073-75, and a century later rebuilt under Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his Welf successor Otto IV, who died here in 1218.

castle ruin in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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ruined castle near Rüdesheim am Rhein in Hesse, Germany

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The Syberg is a hill in the Ruhr in the southern part of Dortmund, 240 m above sea level (NN), which is part of the Ardey Hills. The Syberg is home to the Sigiburg, the Vincke Tower, a monument to Emperor William I and other points of interest.

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Castle ruin in Germany

thumb|Ruins (2008) of Castle Grevenburg thumb|A contemporary depiction of the castle at its greatest extent Grevenburg was a castle in Traben-Trarbach in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. It was the residence of the Rear County of Sponheim and today is a ruin following its destruction by the French in 1734.

castle in Neckarzimmern, Germany

castle ruin in Saxony, Germany

thumb|Panorama of the interior of the castle site thumb|The ruins of the Küssaburg thumb|View from the Küssaburg looking west thumb|Plan of the castle thumb|Copperplate by Conrad Meyer, 1665, landslide of 25 December 1664

The Kastelburg is a ruined castle above Waldkirch in the district Emmendingen in Baden-Württemberg. It stands on a hill about above the center of Waldkirch in Breisgau.

cultural heritage monument D-6-72-114-393 (0) in Bad Kissingen, Bavaria

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The ruins of Regenstein Castle in Saxony-Anhalt

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castle ruin in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Schneeburg is a castle ruin between Ebringen and Freiburg, Germany. The ruins are at an altitude of 516 metres (1693 feet) on the western summit of Schönberg.

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castle ruin in Landstuhl, Germany

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