Sababurg
The Sababurg, first called the Zappenburg, then Zapfenburg and today, after the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Sleeping Beauty Castle, is the ruin of a hill castle in the legendary Reinhardswald, a forested upland that runs through the North Hessian county of Kassel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Presse03, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tierpark Sababurg and Urwald Sababurg.
Tierpark Sababurg
Zoo
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Tierpark Sababurg is a zoo, which is situated 620 metres southwest of Sababurg.
Urwald Sababurg
Nature reserve
Photo: Kookaburra91156, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Urwald Sababurg is a nature reserve.
Oberes Holzapetal
Nature reserve
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Oberes Holzapetal is a nature reserve.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bursfelde and Hemeln.
Bursfelde
Hamlet
Photo: HeinrichStuerzl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bursfelde is a village, now administratively joined with Hemeln as Bursfelde-Hemeln, in the northern part of Hann. Münden in the district of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. Bursfelde is situated 6 km east of Sababurg.
Hemeln
Village
Photo: Witold Grzesiek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hemeln is an outlying village in the borough of the town of Hann. Münden. It lies on the right bank of the Weser River, 12 km from the city proper. The highways L561 and L560 run through the community. Hemeln is situated 7 km southeast of Sababurg.
Stammen
Village
Photo: Chamant, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stammen is a village, which is situated 9 km west of Sababurg.
Sababurg
- Type: Castle
- Description: castle ruin
- Categories: castle ruin, hill castle, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Hofgeismar, Kassel, Hesse, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.54373° or 51° 32′ 37″ northLongitude
9.53732° or 9° 32′ 14″ eastElevation
299 metres (981 feet)Open location code
9F3FGGVP+FWOpenStreetMap ID
node 269578659OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castle
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Russian—“Sababurg” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sababurg”
- French: “château de Sababurg”
- French: “Château de Sababurg”
- German: “Dornröschenschloss”
- German: “Sababurg”
- German: “Zapfenburg”
- German: “Zappenburg”
- Japanese: “ザバブルク”
- Japanese: “ザバブルグ”
- Russian: “Забабург”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sababurg”. Photo: Presse03, CC BY-SA 3.0.