Wartburg Castle

The Wartburg is a castle originally built in the Middle Ages. It is situated on a precipice of 410 metres to the southwest of and overlooking the town of , in the state of , Germany.
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Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: castle in Eisenach, Germany
  • Also known as: “Schloss Wartburg” and “Wartburg”
  • Address: Auf der Wartburg 1, Eisenach, 99817
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Elisabethplan and fountain near Wartburg Castle and Cranach Monument.

Spring
Photo: Metilsteiner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a spring, which is situated 260 metres northeast of Wartburg Castle.

Memorial
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is a memorial, which is situated 240 metres southeast of Wartburg Castle.

Cave
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is a small rock on the eastern slope of a hill overlooking the Kälbergrund Valley in , , roughly 500m south of the Wartburg. is situated 570 metres south of Wartburg Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include BMW-Siedlung and Kulturfabrik Alte Mälzerei.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Locality
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is a locality, which is situated 2½ km northeast of Wartburg Castle.

Suburb
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is a suburb, which is situated 4 km east of Wartburg Castle.

Wartburg Castle

Latitude
50.9659° or 50° 57′ 57″ north
Longitude
10.30631° or 10° 18′ 23″ east
Elevation
393 metres (1,289 feet)
Open location code
9F2GX884+9G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2272817622
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Geo­Names ID
3207492
Wiki­data ID
Q151545
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Wartburg Castle” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kasteel Wartburg”
  • Arabic: “فارتبورج”
  • Arabic: “فارتبورغ”
  • Armenian: “Վարթբուրգ”
  • Asturian: “Wartburg”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vartburq qalası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vartburq qəsri”
  • Bashkir: “Вартбург замогы”
  • Basque: “Wartburg gaztelua”
  • Bavarian: “Wartburg”
  • Belarusian: “Вартбург”
  • Belarusian: “Замак Вартбург”
  • Bosnian: “Wartburg”
  • Breton: “Kastell Wartburg”
  • Bulgarian: “Вартбург”
  • Catalan: “Castell de Wartburg”
  • Catalan: “Wartburg”
  • Cebuano: “Wartburg”
  • Chinese: “瓦尔特堡”
  • Chinese: “瓦爾特堡”
  • Chinese: “瓦特堡”
  • Croatian: “Dvorac Wartburg”
  • Croatian: “Wartburg”
  • Czech: “Varburk”
  • Czech: “Wartburg”
  • Danish: “Wartburg”
  • Dutch: “Kasteel Wartburg”
  • Dutch: “Wartburg”
  • Esperanto: “Wartburg”
  • Finnish: “Wartburgin linna”
  • French: “Castell de Wartburg”
  • French: “Château de la Wartbourg”
  • French: “Château de la Wartburg”
  • French: “Chateau de Wartbourg”
  • French: “château de Wartbourg”
  • Galician: “Castelo de Wartburg”
  • Georgian: “ვარტბურგის ციხესიმაგრე”
  • German: “Wartburg”
  • Greek: “Βάρτμπουργκ”
  • Greek: “Πύργος του Βάρτμπουργκ”
  • Hebrew: “וארטבורג”
  • Hebrew: “ורטבורג”
  • Hebrew: “טירת וארטבורג”
  • Hebrew: “טירת ורטבורג”
  • Hindi: “वार्टबर्ग”
  • Hungarian: “Wartburg vára”
  • Indonesian: “Wartburg”
  • Italian: “Castello di Wartburg”
  • Italian: “Wartburg”
  • Japanese: “ヴァルトブルク城”
  • Japanese: “バルトブルク城”
  • Japanese: “ワルトブルク城”
  • Korean: “바르트부르크 성”
  • Korean: “바르트부르크성”
  • Latin: “Castellum Wartburgense”
  • Latin: “Castellum Wartburgensis”
  • Lithuanian: “Vartburgo pilis”
  • Macedonian: “Вартбург”
  • Malagasy: “Wartburg (any Alemaina)”
  • Malagasy: “Wartburg”
  • Maltese: “Kastell ta‘ Wartburg”
  • Maltese: “Kastell ta’ Wartburg”
  • Maltese: “Wartburg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wartburg”
  • Norwegian: “Wartburg”
  • Persian: “وارتبورگ”
  • Polish: “Wartburg”
  • Polish: “Zamek Wartburg”
  • Portuguese: “Castelo de Wartburg”
  • Portuguese: “Wartburg”
  • Romanian: “Wartburg”
  • Russian: “замок Вартбург”
  • Russian: “Замок Вартбург”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dvorac Wartburg”
  • Slovak: “Wartburg”
  • Slovak: “Zámok Wartburg”
  • Slovenian: “grad Wartburg”
  • Slovenian: “Grad Wartburg”
  • Spanish: “Castillo de Wartburg”
  • Spanish: “Schloss Wartburg”
  • Spanish: “Wartburg”
  • Swedish: “Wartburg”
  • Tatar: “Вартбург кальгасе”
  • Turkish: “Wartburg Kalesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Замок Вартбург”
  • Upper Sorbian: “hród Wartburg”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Wartburg”
  • Uzbek: “Vartburg qal’asi”
  • Uzbek: “Vartburg qalʼasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Lâu đài Wartburg”
  • Vietnamese: “Wartburg”
  • Western Frisian: “Wartburg”
  • Western Panjabi: “وارٹبرگ قلعہ”
  • Yue Chinese: “瓦爾特堡”

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