Hohenzollern Castle
Hohenzollern Castle is the ancestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern. The third of three hilltop castles built on the site, it is located atop Mount Hohenzollern, above and south of Hechingen, on the edge of the Swabian Jura of central Baden-Württemberg, Germany.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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”
- Wheelchair access: limited
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Hohenzollern and Water tower of Hohenzollern Castle.
Hohenzollern
Peak
Photo: Der Messer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hohenzollern is a mountain, 855 m, of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located in Zollernalbkreis. Hohenzollern Castle is located on its top. The mountain is an outlier, about 1 km north of the Swabian Jura.
Water tower of Hohenzollern Castle
Water tower
Photo: Zollernalb, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Water tower of Hohenzollern Castle is situated 360 metres northwest of Hohenzollern Castle.
Zeller Horn
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Zeller Horn is a mountain of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located in Albstadt, Zollernalbkreis. Zeller Horn is situated 1½ km southeast of Hohenzollern Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zimmern and Thanheim.
Thanheim
Village
Photo: Zollernalb, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Thanheim is a village, which is situated 3 km southwest of Hohenzollern Castle.
Hechingen
Town
Photo: Muesse, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hechingen is a town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated about 60 kilometres south of the state capital of Stuttgart and 90 kilometres north of Lake Constance and the Swiss border. Hechingen is situated 3 km north of Hohenzollern Castle.
Hohenzollern Castle
- Categories: castle, museum, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Bisingen, Zollernalbkreis, Tübingen Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
48.32356° or 48° 19′ 25″ northLongitude
8.96753° or 8° 58′ 3″ eastElevation
843 metres (2,766 feet)Inception
1867Open location code
8FWC8XF9+C2OpenStreetMap ID
way 93612350OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=limitedGeoNames ID
2901323Wikidata ID
Q156457
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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”
- 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”
- Hebrew: “טירת הוהנצולרן”
- 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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