Burg Dagstuhl, Wadern

Name: Burg Dagstuhl
Address: Wadern, Germany

#2 among attractions in Wadern

Top attraction, Vernacular architecture, Forts and castles

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Dagstuhl Castle is a ruined castle on the top of a hill near the town of Wadern, kreis Merzig-Wadern, in Saarland, Germany. It overlooks the newer Schloss Dagstuhl in the valley below, which is historic, but has been converted for use as a meeting centre for computer science. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 49°31'53"N, 6°53'48"E

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Wadern Germany

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Burg Dagstuhl – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Schloss Dagstuhl, Sternwarte Peterberg, Schimmelkopf, Zwergenland.

~560 ftE
Convention center, Hotel, Vernacular architecture
Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern
3 min walk • Dagstuhl is a computer science research center in Germany, located in and named after a district of the town of Wadern, Merzig-Wadern, Saarland.
5.4 miNE
Observatories and planetariums
Sternwarte Peterberg, Nonnweiler
137 min walk • Sternwarte Peterberg is a club observatory in Saarland, Germany. Founded in 1977, it has 160 members as of 2016.
5.7 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Schimmelkopf
145 min walk • The Schimmelkopf or Weiskircher Höhe is a mountain that rises in the Schwarzwälder Hochwald on the boundary between the counties of Trier-Saarburg and Merzig-Wadern and, at 694.8 m above sea level, is the second highest peak in the German state of Saarland.
0.7 miNW
49°32'25"N • 6°53'24"E
Zwergenland, Wadern
18 min walk • City hall
4.4 miNW
49°33'23"N • 6°48'22"E
Soldatenfriedhof Weiskirchen, Weiskirchen
113 min walk • Cemetery
4.2 miSW
Forts and castles
Schloss Münchweiler
106 min walk • Münchweiler Castle is a historic building in the Münchweiler district of the Wadern borough of Nunkirchen. The castle is the only recognizably preserved example in the Saarland of an elaborate and spacious country castle planning of the Baroque...
6.2 miNE
Church
St. Hubertus
158 min walk • The church of St. Hubertus - sometimes called Hochwalddom because of its size as well as its location in the Hochwald forest - is a Catholic parish church in Nonnweiler in the Saarland.
6.1 miSE
Monuments and statues
Wortsegel
156 min walk • The Word Sail, a monument to poetry, is the name of a steel sculpture by Heinrich Popp.