Rauschenburg
The Rauschenburg, also called Rauschenburg Castle, is the medieval ruin of a hill castle, located at around 250 metres above sea level, above the Ehrbach stream in the parish of Mermuth in the county of Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.- Type: Castle
- Description: castle ruin
- Also known as: “Rauschenburg Castle” and “Ruine Rauschenburg”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ehrenburg and Wallfahrtskapelle Zur Schwarzen Muttergottes.
Ehrenburg
Castle
The Ehrenburg is the ruin of a spur castle at 230 m above sea level in the vicinity of Brodenbach in Germany. The castle had a very eventful history. It was built on a rocky spur called the Ehrenberg situated above the valley of the Ehrbach, a right bank valley of the Moselle. Ehrenburg is situated 3½ km northwest of Rauschenburg.
Wallfahrtskapelle Zur Schwarzen Muttergottes
Church
Wallfahrtskapelle Zur Schwarzen Muttergottes is a church, which is situated 2½ km northeast of Rauschenburg.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mermuth and Beulich.
Mermuth
Village
Mermuth is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Beulich
Village
Beulich is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Gondershausen
Village
Gondershausen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Gondershausen is situated 2½ km south of Rauschenburg.
Rauschenburg
- Categories: castle ruin, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Boppard, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Middle Rhine Valley, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.18236° or 50° 10′ 57″ north
Longitude
7.4811° or 7° 28′ 52″ east
Elevation
207 metres (679 feet)
Inception
1331
Open location code
9F295FJJ+WC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castle
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Low German—“Rauschenburg” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Rauschenburg”
- Esperanto: “Burgo Rauschenberg”
- French: “Rauschenburg”
- German: “Burg Rauschenberg (Mermuth)”
- German: “Burg Rauschenberg”
- German: “Burg Rauschenburg”
- German: “Rauschenburg”
- Low German: “Rauschenburg”
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