Kransberg Castle
Kransberg Castle is situated on a steep rock near Kransberg, a village with about 800 inhabitants in the Taunus mountains in the German state of Hesse, about 40 kilometers north of Frankfurt.Photo: Back2hell, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St. Johannes der Täufer and Kreuzkapelle.
St. Johannes der Täufer
Church
Photo: Osingar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Johannes der Täufer is a church, which is situated 270 metres southeast of Kransberg Castle.
Kreuzkapelle
Place of worship
Photo: Frank Winkelmann, CC BY 3.0.
Kreuzkapelle is a place of worship, which is situated 680 metres southwest of Kransberg Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eschbach and Michelbach.
Eschbach
Village
Photo: Osingar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Eschbach is a borough of Usingen in the Hochtaunuskreis in Hessen. The once almost entirely agriculturally based village at the northern edge of the Usinger Becken first appeared in 1280 in the County Cleeberg under the name of Ketteneschbach. Eschbach is situated 4 km west of Kransberg Castle.
Michelbach
Village
Photo: Karsten11, Public domain.
Michelbach is a village, which is situated 5 km northwest of Kransberg Castle.
Neu-Anspach
Town
Photo: Dontworry, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Neu-Anspach is a town in the Hochtaunuskreis in Hesse, Germany. Neu-Anspach is situated 8 km southwest of Kransberg Castle.
Kransberg Castle
- Type: Castle
- Description: castle near Kransberg in the Taunus mountains in the German state of Hesse
- Categories: château, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Usingen, Hochtaunuskreis, South Hesse, Hesse, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.3453° or 50° 20′ 43″ northLongitude
8.59068° or 8° 35′ 26″ eastOpen location code
9F2C8HWR+47OpenStreetMap ID
way 427396339OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleWikidata ID
Q1563943
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Slovenian—“Kransberg Castle” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قلعة كرانسبرغ”
- Catalan: “castell de Kransberg”
- Czech: “Kransberg”
- Czech: “zámek Kransberg”
- Danish: “Kransberg Slot”
- Esperanto: “Kastelo Kransberg”
- French: “château de Kransberg”
- French: “Château de Kransberg”
- Galician: “castelo de Kransberg”
- German: “Schloss Kransberg”
- Japanese: “クランスベルク城”
- Korean: “크란스베르크성”
- Maltese: “Kastell ta‘ Kransberg”
- Portuguese: “Castelo de Kransberg”
- Russian: “Крансберг”
- Slovenian: “grad Kransberg”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Schlosskapelle and Feuerwehr Kransberg.
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