Sooneck Castle
Sooneck Castle is a castle in the upper middle valley of the Rhine, in the Mainz-Bingen district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is located near the village of Niederheimbach between Bingen and Bacharach.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Johannes Robalotoff, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
- Type: Castle
- Description: castle in Germany
- Also known as: “Schloss Sonneck” and “Sooneck”
- Address: Niederheimbach, 55413
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Siebenburgenblick Observation Tower and Lorcher Werth.
Siebenburgenblick Observation Tower
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Muck50, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Siebenburgenblick Observation Tower is a scenic viewpoint, which is situated 310 metres southwest of Sooneck Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Trechtingshausen and Oberheimbach.
Trechtingshausen
Photo: Traveler100, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Trechtingshausen is a village in the Middle Rhine Valley in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany.
Oberheimbach
Village
Oberheimbach is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The inhabitants of this small place are known colloquially as Uhlen. Oberheimbach is situated 3 km west of Sooneck Castle.
Lorch am Rhein
Photo: Alexander Hoernigk, CC BY 3.0.
Lorch am Rhein is a small town in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. It belongs to the Rhine Gorge World Heritage Site.
Sooneck Castle
- Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Niederheimbach, Mainz-Bingen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.01943° or 50° 1′ 10″ northLongitude
7.82493° or 7° 49′ 30″ eastElevation
203 metres (666 feet)Open location code
9F292R9F+QXOpenStreetMap ID
way 37593630OpenStreetMap feature
building=castleOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleGeoNames ID
11839611Wikidata ID
Q1014020
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Russian—“Sooneck Castle” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Burcht Sooneck”
- Esperanto: “Burgo Sooneck”
- French: “château Sooneck”
- French: “Château Sooneck”
- German: “Burg Sooneck”
- Polish: “Zamek Sooneck”
- Russian: “Замок Зоонек”
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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 “Sooneck Castle”. Photo: Johannes Robalotoff, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.