Oberburg Staufenberg, Staufenberg

Name: Oberburg Staufenberg
Address: Burggasse 10, Staufenberg, Germany

#1 among attractions in Staufenberg

Forts and castles

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Staufenberg Castle is a ruin of a hilltop castle in the town of Staufenberg on the mountain of the same name in the district of Giessen in Hesse, Germany.

Coordinates: 50°39'54"N, 8°43'42"E

Address

Burggasse 10Staufenberg Germany

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Oberburg Staufenberg – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Stadttheater Gießen, Botanical Garden, Gleiberg Volcano, Gießkannenmuseum.

6 miS
Concerts and shows, Theater
Stadttheater Gießen, Gießen
154 min walk • The Theater Gießen, official name Stadttheater Gießen, is a theatre in Gießen, Germany, a cultural center for the university city and the region. The main building was designed in Neo-classical style with influences of Jugendstil by architects Fellner & Helmer and completed in 1906.
5.9 miS
Botanical garden, Garden, Park
Botanical Garden, Gießen
150 min walk • The Botanischer Garten Gießen, more formally the Botanischer Garten der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, is a historic botanical garden maintained by the University of Giessen. It is the oldest botanical garden in Germany still at its original site, with an entrance at Senckenbergstraße 6, Gießen, Hesse, Germany.
5.4 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Gleiberg Volcano
137 min walk • Gleiberg is a hill and extinct volcano in Hesse, Germany.
5.9 miS
Museum
Gießkannenmuseum, Gießen
150 min walk • The Watering Can Museum is a museum for watering cans and other irrigation instruments in the city of Giessen in central Hesse. It was launched in 2011 in the run-up to the State Garden Show Giessen 2014 as a participatory project for citizens...
5.8 miSW
View point, Event space
Lahnfenster, Gießen
149 min walk • The Lahnfenster Hessen is a water information center on the Lahn in Giessen, operated by the Regierungspräsidium Giessen. The partially underground building offers views of the river through large glass panes, as well as the fish ladder at...
5.4 miSW
Forts and castles
Burg Gleiberg, Wettenberg
137 min walk • Gleiberg Castle with the surrounding village of Gleiberg is a namesake part of Krofdorf-Gleiberg and belongs to the municipality of Wettenberg in the district of Giessen in Hesse.
2.4 miNW
Church
Evangelische Kirche Salzböden
60 min walk • The Protestant church Salzböden was built in the 13th century as an early Gothic fortified tower and extended in the 16th century by a small choir annex. The church in Salzböden in the municipality of Lollar in the district of Giessen is a Hessian...
3.1 miNW
Church
Evangelische Kirche Fronhausen
81 min walk • The Lutheran church in Fronhausen, Central Hesse, is a choir tower church whose oldest elements were built in the 12th century. Today it is the preaching place of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation of Fronhausen and belongs to the parish Unteres...
4.3 miN
Synagogue
Landsynagoge Roth
111 min walk • The country synagogue in Roth, a district of the municipality of Weimar in the district of Marburg-Biedenkopf in Hesse, is a former synagogue. It is supported by a working group.
5.8 miS
Forts and castles
Altes Schloss, Gießen
150 min walk • Altes Schloss - the castle in Gießen, was founded in the 12th century by the count from Gleiberg. Then a new castle was added, which is located on the other side of the Brandtplatz Parking Square, which divides both buildings. Near the old castle there is a botanical garden from the 17th century, the oldest existing in Germany.
6.1 miSW
Monuments and statues
Die drei Schwätzer, Gießen
155 min walk • The Three Chatterers are a bronze sculpture created by Karl-Henning Seemann in the central Hessian city of Giessen. They stand in the inner-city pedestrian zone at the junction of Plockstraße and Seltersweg.