Frankenstein Castle
Frankenstein Castle is a medieval fortification on a spur above the village of Frankenstein, Rhineland-Palatinate in the Palatinate Forest in Germany. Its name derives from the local House of Frankenstein.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Emil, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Castle
- Description: medieval fortification, Palatinate Forest, Germany
- Also known as: “Burgruine Frankenstein” and “Frankenstein Castle, Palatinate”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Frankenstein station and Burg Diemerstein.
Frankenstein station
Railway stop
Photo: AF666, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Frankenstein station is the station of the town of Frankenstein in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Deutsche Bahn classifies it as a category 6 station and it has two platforms. Frankenstein station is situated 330 metres west of Frankenstein Castle.
Burg Diemerstein
Castle
Photo: Parklife, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Burg Diemerstein is a castle, which is situated 1 km northwest of Frankenstein Castle.
Villa Denis
University building
Photo: Reinhard Dietrich, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Villa Denis is an university building, which is situated 1 km northwest of Frankenstein Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Diemerstein and Weidenthal.
Weidenthal
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Weidenthal is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Weidenthal is situated 3 km southeast of Frankenstein Castle.
Fischbach
Village
Fischbach is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany. Fischbach is situated 4½ km west of Frankenstein Castle.
Frankenstein Castle
- Categories: cultural heritage monument in Germany, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Frankenstein, Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
49.43882° or 49° 26′ 20″ northLongitude
7.9748° or 7° 58′ 29″ eastOpen location code
8FX9CXQF+GWOpenStreetMap ID
way 160337502OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleWikidata ID
Q1011776
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Romanian—“Frankenstein Castle” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “castell de Frankenstein”
- Dutch: “Frankenstein Castle”
- Esperanto: “Burgo Frankenstein”
- German: “Burg Frankenstein (Pfalz)”
- German: “Burg Frankenstein”
- Romanian: “Cetatea frankenstein (pfalz)”
- Romanian: “Cetatea Frankenstein (Pfalz)”
- Romanian: “Cetatea Frankenstein”
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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 “Frankenstein Castle”. Photo: Emil, CC BY-SA 3.0.