Hohnstein Castle
Hohnstein Castle is a medieval castle in the village of the same name, Hohnstein in Saxon Switzerland in the Free State of Sachsen in eastern Germany.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Norbert Kaiser, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Email: info@burg-hohnstein.info
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: castle
- Also known as: “Jugendburg”
- Address: Markt 1, Hohnstein, 01848
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church in Hohnstein and Kgl.-sächs. Postmeilenstein Schulberg.
Church in Hohnstein
Church
Photo: Killer queen1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Church in Hohnstein is situated 140 metres northeast of Hohnstein Castle.
Kgl.-sächs. Postmeilenstein Schulberg
Historic site
Photo: Oxensepp, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kgl.-sächs. Postmeilenstein Schulberg is a historic site, which is situated 170 metres north of Hohnstein Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zeschnig and Rathewalde.
Rathen
Photo: Traveler100, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rathen is a spa town in Saxon Switzerland, Germany. It is close to the Bastei, the most famous rock formation and spectacular viewpoint in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains.
Hohnstein Castle
- Categories: castle, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Hohnstein, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.97943° or 50° 58′ 46″ northLongitude
14.1084° or 14° 6′ 30″ eastElevation
285 metres (935 feet)Inception
~1200Open location code
9F2PX4H5+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
way 491875702OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Russian—“Hohnstein Castle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Burg Hohnstein”
- Czech: “Hohnstein”
- Czech: “Hohnštejn”
- German: “Burg Hohnstein”
- German: “Schloss Hohnstein” (historical)
- Polish: “Zamek Hohnstein”
- Russian: “Крепость Хонштайн”
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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 “Hohnstein Castle”. Photo: Norbert Kaiser, CC BY-SA 4.0.