The best-known castles and palaces in Brandenburg
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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Potsdam alone could fill a weekend: Schloss Sanssouci (1748) and Schloss Babelsberg (1835) are 2 km from the center, the Orangerieschloss (1864) and Neues Palais 3 km, the Stadtschloss and the Flatowturm (1856) 1 km. Around it, Schloss Caputh is 6 km from Werder and Schloss Marquardt 9 km. Cottbus has Schloss Branitz 3 km out and Schloss Drebkau at 13 km. Further afield: Schloss Meseberg 21 km from Neuruppin and Schloss Oranienburg in Oranienburg.
RLQuest knows 179 castles and palaces in Brandenburg, 99 with a Wikipedia article. The state has three other pages in the app: 78 ruins, 56 observation towers and 52 megalithic tombs. In RLQuest, a palace in Potsdam and a tower near Cottbus are the same kind of quest: get there, let the app confirm it from your route, watch the tiles fill in.
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.
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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.
