Hohentwiel Castle
Hohentwiel Castle is a ruin of a former castle on the peak of the dead volcano Hohentwiel. It is located in the region called Hegau, which is close to the Lake of Constance.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Castle
- Description: building in Singen (Hohentwiel), Freiburg Government Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Also known as: “Festung Hohentwiel”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Hohentwiel and Archäologisches Hegau-Museum.
Hohentwiel
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hohentwiel is a mountain of volcanic origin in the Hegau region of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is the Hausberg of the industrial city of Singen, located west of it and ca 10 km west of Zeller See.
Archäologisches Hegau-Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Archäologisches Hegau-Museum is situated 1¼ km east of Hohentwiel Castle.
Staufen
Peak
Photo: Hubenschmid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Staufen is a mountain of volcanic origin in the Hegau region of southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located near the town of Hilzingen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Singen and Hilzingen.
Singen
Town
Photo: Alex Anlicker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Singen is an industrial city in the very south of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany and just north of the German-Swiss border. It lies in the Hegau region near Lake Constance.
Hilzingen
Village
Photo: Kauk0r, Public domain.
Hilzingen is a municipality in the Hegau region in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Hilzingen is situated 2½ km west of Hohentwiel Castle.
Hofenacker
Hamlet
Hofenacker is a small hamlet, which belongs to the Swiss municipality of Ramsen, in the eastern part of the canton of Schaffhausen. Hofenacker is situated 4 km south of Hohentwiel Castle.
Hohentwiel Castle
- Categories: castle ruin, fortress, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Singen (Hohentwiel), Konstanz, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.76456° or 47° 45′ 52″ northLongitude
8.81844° or 8° 49′ 6″ eastElevation
430 metres (1,411 feet)Open location code
8FVCQR79+R9OpenStreetMap ID
node 278137550OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castle
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Ukrainian—“Hohentwiel Castle” goes by many names.
- Czech: “hrad Hohentwiel”
- Czech: “pevnost Hohentwiel”
- German: “Ekkehard (Roman)”
- German: “Festung Hohentwiel”
- German: “Hohentwiel-Festival”
- Japanese: “ホーエントヴィール城”
- Russian: “Крепость Хоэнтвиль”
- Ukrainian: “Гоентвільська фортеця”
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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 “Hohentwiel Castle”. Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.