Kyffhausen Castle

Barbarossa Tower in the upper ward around 1900
Castle chapel in the lower ward

The Imperial Castle of Kyffhausen (German: Reichsburg Kyffhausen) is a medieval castle ruin in the Kyffhäuser hills on the Kyffhäuserburgberg, a summit 439.7 m above sea level (NN)[1]. It lies in the parish of Steinthaleben in the municipality of Kyffhäuserland, not far from the town of Bad Frankenhausen in the county of Kyffhäuserkreis, in the German state of Thuringia, near its border with Saxony-Anhalt.

Location

The ruins of the imperial castle of Kyffhausen lie in the Kyffhäuser hills and within the Kyffhäuser Nature Park – about 300 metres south of the northern boundary of the park. They stand on the Kyffhäuserburgberg (439.7 m above sea level (NN)[1]), an approximately 800 metre long eastern foothill of the range, about 3 kilometres northeast of the village of Rathsfeld in the Thuringian county of Kyffhäuserkreis, south of Sittendorf and southwest of Tilleda, which are parts of the municipality of Kelbra (Mansfeld-Südharz, Saxony-Anhalt) and within the Goldene Aue ("Golden Water Meadows", ca. 160 m above NN[2]), roughly 280 metres below.

References

  1. 1 2 Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
  2. Sachsen-Anhalt-Viewer

Literature

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Coordinates: 51°24′46″N 11°06′30″E / 51.41278°N 11.10833°E / 51.41278; 11.10833

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