Birseck Castle

Burg Birseck

Birseck Castle (German: Burg Birseck) is located in the municipality of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country. Birseck Castle is also called "Untere Burg Birseck" or "Vordere Burg Birseck" and is one of four castles on a slope called Birseck that confines the plain of the Birs river.

The Eremitage building group that includes the castle is listed as a heritage site of national significance.^[1] Burg Reichenstein is the sister castle to Birseck and sits on a higher slope to the north.

References

↑ Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance (1995), p. 53.

External links

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Castles and Fortresses of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft

Aesch Altenberg Angenstein Bärenfels Burg Castle Alt-Biederthal Binningen Hintere Birseck Vordere Birseck Mittlere Birseck Bischofstein Bottmingen Ebenrain Engenstein Farnsburg Frohberg Fürstenstein Gutenfels Holeeschlösschen Neu-Homburg Madeln Münchenstein Münchsberg Ödenburg Pfeffingen Pratteln Schauenburg Ränggen Ramstein Reichenstein Riedfluh Schalberg Alt-Schauenburg Neu-Schauenburg Schönenberg Sissacherfluh Spitzburg Fortified Church of St. Arbogast Tschöpperli Waldenburg Hintere Wartenberg Mittlere Wartenberg Vordere Wartenberg Wild-Eptingen Wildenstein Zwingen

Castles of Basel-Country Castles of Switzerland Castles of Europe

Coordinates: 47°29′31″N 7°37′42″E / 47.491892°N 7.628265°E / 47.491892; 7.628265