The best-known castles and palaces in Saarland
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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Saarland is small, so most of its castles are a short hop from a town. The Saarbrücker Schloss (1748) and Schloss Halberg (built 1877 to 1880) are both within 2 km of Saarbrücken's center. Burg Montclair is 8 km from Merzig, the Ruine Burg Siersberg and the Fremersdorfer Schloss (1797) are 4 km from Beckingen, Burg Kerpen (1359) is in Illingen, and Homburg has the Burgruine Hohenburg and Schloß Karlsberg on its doorstep.
RLQuest knows 40 named castles, palaces and castle ruins in Saarland, 25 of them with a Wikipedia article, and this is the only kind of place with its own page for the state. Wadern has both a Burg Dagstuhl and a Schloss Dagstuhl within a kilometer. Every first arrival at one of them is recorded in RLQuest, and the map around it stops being blank.
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.
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.
