Greifensee Castle, Greifensee

Name: Greifensee Castle
Address: 24 Im Städtli, Greifensee, Switzerland

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Greifensee Castle is a castle in the municipality of Greifensee and the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. It was probably built by the House of Rapperswil and is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. ()

Local name: Schloss Greifensee Coordinates: 47°21'54"N, 8°40'32"E

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24 Im StädtliGreifensee Switzerland

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Greifensee Castle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Flieger-Flab-Museum, Uster Castle, Uster Reformed Church, Greifensee.

3 miNW
Museum, Specialty museum, Military museum
Flieger-Flab-Museum, Zurich
78 min walk • The Flieger Flab Museum is located in the Canton of Zurich in Dübendorf on the grounds of Dübendorf Air Base.
2.4 miSE
Forts and castles
Uster Castle, Uster
61 min walk • Uster Castle is a hill castle which was built probably around 1200 AD by the House of Rapperswil in the Swiss municipality of Uster in the Canton of Zürich. Since 1995 it houses a boarding school.
2.3 miSE
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
Uster Reformed Church, Uster
60 min walk • Reformierte Kirche Uster is an Evangelical Reformed church in the Swiss municipality of Uster in the Canton of Zürich that was built in 1824. The predecessor St. Andreas church, situated next to the Uster Castle, was given by the House of Rapperswil and first mentioned in 1099 AD.
1.1 miS
Site with various lakefront activities
Greifensee, Maur
29 min walk • Greifensee is a lake in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
4.4 miSE
History museum, Theme park, Museum
Sauriermuseum, Seegräben
113 min walk • The Aathal Dinosaur Museum is a paleontological museum in the locality Aathal of the municipality of Seegräben in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland, and one of the few dinosaur museums in Europe.
4.4 miSW
Forts and castles
Wulp Castle, Zurich
114 min walk • The ruins of Wulp Castle is a castle located besides Küsnachter Tobel in the municipality of Küsnacht and the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. It was built during the high Middle Ages. Despite this, the castle is documented only in a few found texts, and much of the castle's history is not known.
3.9 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Adlisberg, Zurich
101 min walk • Adlisberg, with an elevation of 701 metres, is a wooded mountain in Switzerland overlooking Zürichsee to the northwest near the Zürichberg.
3.6 miW
View point, Tower
Loorenkopf, Zurich
92 min walk • Loorenkopf tower is a 33-metre high freestanding wood lattice tower on Adlisberg, north of Witikon in Zürich, Switzerland. It was built in 1954. The tower is owned by Zürich city and it is open to the public. The tower is located within the forest at an altitude of 694 m. The upper platform is reached by 153 steps.
~320 ftE
Gothic architecture, Church
Greifensee Reformed Church, Greifensee
2 min walk • Reformierte Kirche Greifensee, is a church and a listed heritage building in the municipality of Greifensee, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland.
4.5 miSE
47°20'20"N • 8°45'47"E
Siber und Siber AG, Seegräben
114 min walk • Museum
2.9 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Öschbrig, Zurich
75 min walk • Öschbrig with an elevation of 696 metres, is a wooded mountain in Switzerland overlooking to the east Zürichsee.