The best-known castles and palaces in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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The Schweriner Schloss is 1 km from the center of Schwerin, with Schloss Wiligrad 12 km out and Schloss Kaarz 22 km. Schloss Ludwigslust is 26 km from Parchim, Schloss Bothmer 21 km from Wismar, Schloss Güstrow 1 km from Güstrow. Around Greifswald: Schloss Karlsburg (19 km), Schloss Griebenow (10 km) and Schloss Ludwigsburg (7 km). Schloss Ulrichshusen, Kittendorf and Basedow lie 13 to 20 km from Waren, and Burg Stargard is 8 km from Neubrandenburg.
RLQuest knows 135 castles and palaces in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, 69 with a Wikipedia article. The state's other page here is its 273 megalithic tombs, which outnumber the castles two to one, an unusual ratio. A manor at the end of an avenue is a satisfying RLQuest quest: a straight walk, a clear endpoint, and an app that checks your route rather than your word.
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.
