Sababurg
Castle in Hofgeismar, Germany, dating from 1334
The Sababurg, first called the Zappenburg, then Zapfenburg and today, after the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Sleeping Beauty Castle (German: Dornröschenschloss), is the ruin of a hill castle in the legendary Reinhardswald, a forested upland that runs through the North Hessian county of Kassel. Sababurg is also the name of a district of the town of Hofgeismar in which the castle is found. The hill castle appears in 1334 as the Zappenburg to protect pilgrims to the nearby pilgrimage site of Gottsbüren. In 1490, the hunting lodge of Zapfenburg grew out of the medieval castle site. After 1957 the sit
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- Type:
- Castle
- Period:
- 1334
- Where:
- Hofgeismar, Germany
- Coordinates:
- 51.54°N, 9.54°E
More places nearby
- Burg am Bach (3.7 km)
- Schloss Beberbeck (4.2 km)
- Benediktinerinnenkloster Gottsbüren (4.6 km)
- Wallfahrtskirche Gottsbüren (4.7 km)
- Waldenserkirche (Gottstreu) (5.0 km)
- Bramburg (5.4 km)
- Benediktinerabtei Bursfelde (6.0 km)
- Klosterkirche Bursfelde (6.1 km)
- Christuskirche (6.3 km)
- Burg Gieselwerder (6.4 km)
- Martinskirche (Oedelsheim) (6.5 km)
- Marienkirche (Hemeln) (6.7 km)
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