Hohenzollern Castle

Hohenzollern Castle is the ancestral seat of the formerly imperial House of Hohenzollern. The third of three hilltop castles built on the site, it is located atop , above and south of , on the edge of the in central , Germany.
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  • Opening hours: 10:00 AM—5:30 PM
  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: ancestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern in the Swabian Alps of central Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  • Also known as: “Burg Hohenzollern”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Hohenzollern and Christuskapelle.

Peak
Photo: Der Messer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a mountain, 855 m, of , . It is located in . Castle is located on its top. The mountain is an outlier, about 1 km north of the .

Church
Photo: Runner1928, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

Nature reserve
Photo: Olga Ernst, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a nature reserve.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zimmern and Thanheim.

Village
Photo: Zollernalb, CC BY 2.5.
is a village.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 3 km southwest of Hohenzollern Castle.

Town
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is a town in central , Germany. It is situated about 60 kilometres south of the state capital of and 90 kilometres north of and the border. is situated 3 km north of Hohenzollern Castle.

Hohenzollern Castle

Latitude
48.32356° or 48° 19′ 25″ north
Longitude
8.96753° or 8° 58′ 3″ east
Elevation
843 metres (2,766 feet)
Inception
1867
Wheelchair access
limited
Open location code
8FWC8XF9+C2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 93612350
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
2901323
Wiki­data ID
Q156457
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Hohenzollern Castle” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قلعة الهوهنتسلرن”
  • Arabic: “قلعة هوهنتسولرن”
  • Arabic: “قلعة هوهنزولرن”
  • Arabic: “قلعة هوهنزوليرن”
  • Armenian: “Հոհենցոլեռն ամրոց”
  • Basque: “Hohenzollern gaztelua”
  • Belarusian: “Гагэнцолерн (замак)”
  • Belarusian: “Гагэнцолерн”
  • Belarusian: “замак Гагэнцолерн”
  • Belarusian: “Замак Гогенцолерн”
  • Breton: “Kastell Hohenzollern”
  • Bulgarian: “Замък Хоенцолерн”
  • Bulgarian: “Хоенцолерн”
  • Catalan: “Burg Hohenzollern”
  • Catalan: “Castell Hohenzollern”
  • Cebuano: “Burg Hohenzollern”
  • Chinese: “霍亨佐倫堡”
  • Chinese: “霍亨索伦城堡”
  • Chinese: “霍亨索倫城堡”
  • Croatian: “Dvorac Hohenzollern”
  • Czech: “Hohenzollern”
  • Danish: “Burg Hohenzollern”
  • Danish: “Hohenzollern”
  • Dutch: “Burcht Hohenzollern”
  • Dutch: “Burg Hohenzollern”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قلعة هوهنتسولرن”
  • Esperanto: “Kastelo Hohenzollern”
  • Estonian: “Hohenzollerni kindlus”
  • Finnish: “Hohenzollernin linna”
  • French: “Burg Hohenzollern”
  • French: “Chateau de Hohenzollern”
  • French: “château de Hohenzollern”
  • French: “Château de Hohenzollern”
  • Georgian: “ჰოენცოლერნის ციხესიმაგრე”
  • German: “Burg Hohenzollern”
  • Greek: “κάστρο Χοεντσόλερν”
  • Hausa: “Gidan sarauta na Hohenzollern”
  • Hebrew: “טירת הוהנצולרן”
  • Hindi: “होहनत्सॉलर्न क़िला”
  • Hungarian: “Hohenzollern-kastély”
  • Indonesian: “Hohenzollern Castle”
  • Italian: “Burg Hohenzollern”
  • Italian: “Castello di Hohenzollern”
  • Japanese: “ホーエンツォレルン城”
  • Latvian: “Hoencollerna pils”
  • Latvian: “Hoencollernas pils”
  • Lithuanian: “Hohencolernų pilis”
  • Macedonian: “Хоенцолерн”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hohenzollern”
  • Norwegian: “Hohenzollern”
  • Persian: “قلعه هوهن‌تسولرن”
  • Polish: “Zamek Hohenzollern”
  • Portuguese: “Burg Hohenzollern”
  • Portuguese: “Castelo de Hohenzollern”
  • Portuguese: “Castelo Hohenzollern”
  • Romanian: “Castelul Hohenzollern”
  • Russian: “Гогенцоллерн”
  • Russian: “Замок Гогенцоллерн”
  • Russian: “Крепость Гогенцоллерн”
  • Russian: “Цоллерн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dvorac Hohenzollern”
  • Slovak: “Hrad Hohenzollern”
  • Slovenian: “Grad Hohenzollern”
  • Spanish: “Castillo de Hohenzollern”
  • Swedish: “Burg Hohenzollern”
  • Swiss German: “Burg Hohenzollern”
  • Thai: “ปราสาทโฮเอินท์ซ็อลเลิร์น”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Burg Hohenzollern”
  • Turkish: “Hohenzollern Kalesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Замок Гогенцоллерн”
  • Uzbek: “Hohenzollern qal’asi”
  • Vietnamese: “Lâu đài Hohenzollern”
  • Welsh: “Castell Hohenzollern”
  • Western Panjabi: “قلعہ ہوہنزولرن”

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