The best-known castles and palaces in Saxony-Anhalt
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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Along the Saale near Naumburg the castles come in a row: Rudelsburg and Burg Saaleck are both 9 km out, Schloss Neuenburg 7 km, Burg Schönburg 4 km. Halle has the Moritzburg (1484) in the center and Burg Giebichenstein, split into Oberburg and Unterburg, 3 km away. In the Harz, Schloss Wernigerode is a kilometer from the center of Wernigerode, Blankenburg has the Großes Schloß and Burg und Festung Regenstein, and Burg Falkenstein is 14 km from Quedlinburg.
RLQuest knows 267 named castles and palaces in Saxony-Anhalt, 123 of them with a Wikipedia article, the state's longest list, ahead of 109 megalithic tombs and 47 observation towers. Castles usually sit at the end of a climb, which is what the app's quests are built around: you go, the route proves it, the map gains a tile.
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 215 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.
