Schloß Zwingenberg

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Zwingenberg Castle, also called Zwingenberg or Schloss Zwingenberg, stands on the right bank of the River Neckar where it cuts through the Odenwald hills in central Germany. The castle is located in the municipality of Zwingenberg in the state of Baden-Württemberg. ()

Local name: Burg Zwingenberg Built: XIII centuryCoordinates: 49°25'18"N, 9°1'59"E

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1 SchlossstraßeBaden-WürttembergGermany

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Schloß Zwingenberg – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Katzenbuckel, Schloss Mosbach, Naturpark Neckartal-Odenwald, Burg Stolzeneck.

3.4 miN
Inactive volcano with a lookout tower
Katzenbuckel
87 min walk • Nestled in the lush landscape of the Odenwald region in Germany, Katzenbuckel is a testament to the area's fiery geological past. This extinct volcano, the highest peak in the Odenwald, rises to an elevation of 626 meters, offering breathtaking views of the surrounding...
7 miSE
Forts and castles
Schloss Mosbach, Mosbach
180 min walk • Schloss Mosbach is a castle in Mosbach, Neckar-Odenwald district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, dating back to the 14th century.
3.6 miNW
Natural history museum, Museum, Park
Naturpark Neckartal-Odenwald, Eberbach
92 min walk • The Neckartal-Odenwald Nature Park is one of the largest nature parks in Baden-Württemberg, Germany with a size of 1520 km². In the north, the Bergstraße-Odenwald Nature Park is located in Hesse and Bavaria, some areas in the north of Baden-Württemberg belong to both nature parks. The nature park is run by Naturpark Neckartal-Odenwald e.
1.6 miW
Forts and castles
Burg Stolzeneck
40 min walk • Stolzeneck Castle is the ruins of a hilltop castle above the Neckar River near Eberbach in Baden-Württemberg. Built around 1200, the castle was given to servants of the Palatine counts as a fiefdom of the Electorate of Palatinate from 1284.
2.2 miSE
Forts and castles
Minneburg
58 min walk • The Minneburg is the ruin of a hilltop castle in the Neckar valley in the Neckarkatzenbacher Gemeindewald district in the Neckar-Odenwald district in Baden-Württemberg. The castle towers over Neckargerach, which is directly on the opposite side ...
3.4 miNW
Forts and castles
Burg Eberbach, Eberbach
87 min walk • Eberbach Castle is the complex ruined complex of three spur castles above the town of Eberbach. Eberbach Castle consists of three separate castles, so that one should actually correctly speak of the castles of Eberbach.
3.6 miNW
Church
St. Johannes Nepomuk Kirche, Eberbach
91 min walk • St. John Nepomuk Church is a Catholic church in Eberbach in the Rhine-Neckar district in northwestern Baden-Württemberg. It was built between 1884 and 1887 and is already the fourth church on this site. It is considered a landmark of Eberbach.
7 miSE
49°21'7"N • 9°8'49"E
Kiwwelschisser-Brunnen, Mosbach
180 min walk • Fountain
7 miSE
Church
Collegiate Church, Mosbach
179 min walk • Mosbach Abbey was a Benedictine monastery, later a monastery of Augustinian Canons, in the town of Mosbach in the Odenwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
3.5 miNW
Church
Church of St. Michael, Eberbach
89 min walk • The Evangelical Church of St. Michael in Eberbach in the Rhine-Neckar district in northwestern Baden-Württemberg was built between 1835 and 1841. The renaming from "Evangelische Stadtkirche" to "Michaelskirche", which took place only in 1976, goes...
6.4 miSE
Church
Tempelhaus, Mosbach
163 min walk • The Tempelhaus near the banks of the Neckar River in Neckarelz in Baden-Württemberg traces its origins to the medieval residential tower of a Johanniter castle once called Burg Elz.