Rhineland-Palatinate
Naheland
Bad Kreuznach

Ebernburg Castle

Ebernburg Castle is a hilltop castle above the town of in , . Built in 1338, it was the ancestral seat of the lords of Sickingen, and the birthplace of Franz von Sickingen, the famous landsknecht captain and protector of Ulrich von Hutten, to whom a monument was erected on the slope near the castle ruins in 1889.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: castle in Rhineland-Palatiante, Germany
  • Also known as: “Burg Ebernburg”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Rheingrafenstein Castle and Affenstein.

Photo: Nahefoto, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a castle on a 136-metre-high porphyry rock formation, the Rheingrafenstein, known as Huhinstein a thousand years, on the river , opposite in the district . is situated 1 km east of Ebernburg Castle.

Castle
Photo: HeinrichLaun, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a castle, which is situated 790 metres east of Ebernburg Castle.

Railway station
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is a station at a railway junction in , a district of in the German state of . is situated 1 km northeast of Ebernburg Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Norheim and Altenbamberg.

Village
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is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the district in , .

Village
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is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the district in , . is situated 2½ km south of Ebernburg Castle.

Village
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is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the district in , . is situated 4 km southwest of Ebernburg Castle.

Ebernburg Castle

Latitude
49.8071° or 49° 48′ 26″ north
Longitude
7.83844° or 7° 50′ 18″ east
Elevation
137 metres (449 feet)
Open location code
8FX9RR4Q+R9
Open­Street­Map ID
way 38936111
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
11594504
Wiki­data ID
Q884300
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Russian—“Ebernburg Castle” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Burg Ebernburg”
  • Esperanto: “Burgo Ebernburg”
  • French: “château d’Ebernburg”
  • French: “Château d’Ebernburg”
  • German: “Burg Ebernburg”
  • Hebrew: “טירת אברנבורג”
  • Hungarian: “Ebernburgi vár”
  • Japanese: “エーベレンベルク城”
  • Persian: “قلعه ابرنبورگ”
  • Portuguese: “Burg Ebernburg”
  • Romanian: “Ebernburg”
  • Russian: “Замок Эбернбург”
  • Russian: “Эбернбург”

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Explore places such as Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg and Huttental.

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