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Horneck Castle, Germany
Horneck Castle is also known as Burg Horneck, Deutschordenschloss Horneck and Schloss Horneck.
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🇩🇪 Germany · Fortress
Horneck Castle is also known as Burg Horneck, Deutschordenschloss Horneck and Schloss Horneck.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Bellevue Palace (German: Schloss Bellevue, pronounced [ʃlɔs bɛlˈvyː] ), located in Berlin's Tiergarten district, has been the official residence of the president of Germany since 1994.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
The Gegensteine (German: [ˈɡeːɡənˌʃtaɪ̯nə]; literally "Counter-Stones" or "Opposing Stones") are two striking, free-standing rock pinnacles rising dramatically from the gentle, undulating landscape…
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
The Goloring is an ancient earthworks monument located near Koblenz, Germany. It was created in the Bronze Age era, which dates back to the Urnfield culture (1200–800 BCE.).
🇩🇪 Germany · Cave
Baumann's Cave (German: Baumannshöhle), located nearby Hermann's Cave, is a show cave in Rübeland in the district of Harz and is Germany's oldest show cave.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
The Battle at the Harzhorn took place in the early 3rd century between Germanic and Roman troops near the Harzhorn hill between the towns of Kalefeld and Bad Gandersheim, in the state of Lower…
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Ebersberg Castle (German: Schloss Ebersberg) is a schloss in Auenwald, Germany. Construction of the castle began at the beginning of the 12th century; it was first mentioned in 1226.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Federsee is a lake located just north of Bad Buchau in the region of Upper Swabia in Southern Germany. It is surrounded by moorland, partially overgrown with reeds.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
The Deister Gate (German: Deisterpforte) is a 550-metre-wide gap between the Deister and Kleiner Deister hill ridges in Springe in Hanover Region, Lower Saxony, Germany.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
The Großer Waldstein is part of the Waldstein range in the Fichtel Mountains of Germany. It is known primarily for its rock formations caused by spheroidal weathering, its ruined castles and the only…
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
The Great dolmen of Dwasieden (German: Großdolmen von Dwasieden), is a great dolmen in the borough of Sassnitz, on the Jasmund peninsula of Germany's largest island, Rügen.
🇩🇪 Germany · Fortress
Alcimoennis or Alkimoennis is the name widely attached to a Celtic Oppidum, or hill fort above the modern town of Kelheim in Bavaria, Germany.
🇩🇪 Germany · Fortress
The Alexanderschanze (Alexander's Redoubt) is a mountain pass, 970.8 m above sea level (NHN), on the B 28 federal road at Freudenstadt in the Northern Black Forest in southern Germany.
🇩🇪 Germany · Temple complex
All Saints' Abbey (German: Kloster Allerheiligen) was a Premonstratensian monastery near Oppenau in the Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
🇩🇪 Germany · Fortress
The Alte Burg (also Alte Burg im Quecken or Alte Burg "am Quecken") in Bad Münstereifel, Germany, is a circular rampart that is the remains of a fortification from the Carolingian period.
🇩🇪 Germany · Fortress
Alte Burg is a large Celtic hilltop fortification, or hillfort, that may have been used as a cult or assembly site for the regional population.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Ancient Rome
The Arch of Dativius Victor in Mainz is one of the most important reconstructed Roman monuments in Germany.
🇩🇪 Germany · Temple complex
Arnsburg Abbey (German: Kloster Arnsburg) is a former Cistercian monastery near Lich in the Wetterau, Hesse, Germany. It was founded by monks from Eberbach Abbey in 1174.
🇩🇪 Germany · Fortress
The Asseburg is a ruined hill castle on the narrow, southern crest of the Asse ridge in the Harz Mountains of Germany, not far from Wolfenbüttel.
🇩🇪 Germany · Fortress
The Baroque fortifications in the Black Forest (German: Barocke Verteidigungsanlagen im Schwarzwald), also called Baroque Schanzen (Barockschanzen) or Black Forest lines (Schwarzwaldlinien), are…
🇩🇪 Germany · Fortress
Blankenhagen Castle (German: Burg Blankenhagen) was a lowland castle (Niederungsburg), whose ruins are located by the River Aller near Grethem in Lower Saxony, Germany.
🇩🇪 Germany · Temple complex
Breitenau concentration camp was one of the first concentration camps established by the Nazis.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
The archaeological site near the village of Breitenbach in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany is an important open-air settlement that dates to the period of initial colonization of Europe by anatomically modern…
🇩🇪 Germany · Fortress
Bunkenburg was a castle built during the 13th and 14th centuries in the shape of a circular fort located on the banks of the Aller opposite Ahlden in north Germany.