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Franconian Switzerland

Forchheim

Egloffstein

View of Egloffstein Castle

Franconian Switzerland

Forchheim

Egloffstein

View of Egloffstein Castle

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View of Egloffstein Castle

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Location: Egloffstein, Forchheim, Franconian Switzerland, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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〽️Markus

February 16, 2016

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Egloffstein Castle is a former high medieval aristocratic castle located immediately west of the town of the same name, Egloffstein, in the Upper Franconian district of Forchheim in Bavaria.

The spur castle is located in the Franconian Switzerland-Veldenstein Forest Nature Park at an altitude of 443 meters on a two-sided, east-facing rocky outcrop of the Rabenstein, about 80 meters above the town in the Trubach Valley in Franconian Switzerland.

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Andrea

January 6, 2020

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Egloffstein was first mentioned indirectly in 1180 with a Henricus de Hegelofuesten, but it was only in 1358 that the sources found a castle chaplain. After a feud with the …

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Rombea

July 26, 2021

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Well-preserved castle complex, picturesquely situated on a rock. Egloffstein Castle towers over the Trubach Valley and is one of the landmarks of Egloffstein and of "Franconian Switzerland". You can visit the castle by appointment and even spend the night there.

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