Felsenburg
Felsenburg Castle is a ruined castle in the municipality of Kandergrund of the Canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.Photo: Ba-glauchau, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Blausee and Elsighorn.
Blausee
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Blausee is a lake in Bernese Oberland, Kandergrund, Switzerland. It is located near the Kander river. The lake has an elevation of 887 metres and an area of 0.64 hectares.
Elsighorn
Peak
Photo: VincensvonBibra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Elsighorn is a mountain in the Bernese Alps, overlooking Kandergrund in the Bernese Oberland. Elsighorn is situated 2½ km west of Felsenburg.
Ärmighorn
Peak
Photo: Superpoor, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Ärmighorn is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, located east of Kandergrund in the Bernese Oberland. It lies north of the Dündenhorn, on the range between the Kandertal and the Kiental. Ärmighorn is situated 3½ km east of Felsenburg.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mitholz and Kandersteg.
Mitholz
Hamlet
Photo: Draemmli, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mitholz or Blausee-Mitholz is a village in Kandergrund municipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland, with 170 inhabitants as of 2020. Blausee-Mitholz is a station on the Lötschberg railway line.
Kandersteg
Frutigen
Photo: Chriusha, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Frutigen is a town of 6,900 people in the Swiss Canton of Berne and the site of the northern portal of the Lötschberg-Base-Tunnel that opened for railway traffic in 2007.
Felsenburg
- Type: Castle
- Description: castle ruins near Blausee-Mitholz in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Categories: archaeological site, castle ruin, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Reichenbach im Kandertal, Frutigen-Niedersimmental, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.53195° or 46° 31′ 55″ northLongitude
7.67326° or 7° 40′ 24″ eastOpen location code
8FR9GMJF+Q8OpenStreetMap ID
way 282026358OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleWikidata ID
Q1404205
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In Other Languages
From French to Turkish—“Felsenburg” goes by many names.
- French: “château de Felsenburg”
- French: “Château de Felsenburg”
- German: “Felsenburg Blausee-Mitholz”
- German: “Felsenburg”
- Turkish: “Felsenburg Kalesi”
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