The best-known castles and palaces in Rhineland-Palatinate
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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The Middle Rhine is the spine of this list: the Marksburg at 160 m, 4 km from Lahnstein; Burg Stahleck 14 km from Bingen am Rhein. On the Mosel, Reichsburg Cochem stands at 250 m and Burg Eltz, from the 12th century, 16 km from Mayen. In the Palatinate: the Hambacher Schloss (11th century) 3 km from Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Reichsburg Trifels at 494 m near Landau in der Pfalz.
RLQuest knows 375 castles and palaces in Rhineland-Palatinate, 267 with a Wikipedia article. The state's other pages are 122 ruins and 109 observation towers. Marksburg, Cochem and Trifels carry elevations because the walk up is the point. RLQuest sets that walk as a quest and checks it from your route; the slope tiles are yours when you get there.
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.
