The best-known castles and palaces in Baden-Württemberg
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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Baden-Württemberg has castles at every scale. The big residences: Heidelberger Schloss (2 km from Heidelberg), Schloss Ludwigsburg (in town), Schloss Schwetzingen (1 km), Schloss Sigmaringen on the Danube (1 km). The hilltop fortresses: Burg Hohenzollern 3 km from Hechingen, Festung Hohentwiel 2 km from Singen, Festung Hohenasperg 4 km from Bietigheim-Bissingen, Burg Rötteln 3 km from Lörrach. And the Roman end: Annexkastell Osterburken (built 185) and the Kleinkastell Haselburg near Buchen in Odenwald.
RLQuest knows 858 castles and palaces in Baden-Württemberg, 626 with a Wikipedia article. The state is deep in everything: 1364 viewpoints, 284 caves, 212 ruins and 165 observation towers each have a page here. A castle is still the most satisfying quest, and in RLQuest it works like this: walk there, let the app check your route, and keep the tiles you crossed.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
and 806 more
RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
