Century

Castles: 19th century

Sites dated to the 19th century. For castles described by our editors this is when the present building was built; for the rest it is the earliest date in Wikidata – founding, first mention or start of construction. Many castles were rebuilt over the following centuries.

188
sites
14
UNESCO
  • Castle ruins: 4
  • Castles: 42
  • Palaces and châteaux: 53
  • Fortresses and forts: 89

Best known

Register of sites

United States 26

  1. Fort Dearborn, Chicago 1803 · Illinois
  2. Fort Mandan 1804 · North Dakota
  3. Fort Clatsop 1805 · Oregon
  4. Castle Williams 1807 · New York
  5. Castle Clinton, New York 1808 · New York
  6. Fort Moultrie 1809 · South Carolina
  7. Fort Ross 1812 · California
  8. Russian Fort Elizabeth 1816 · Hawaii
  9. Fort Monroe 1819 · Virginia
  10. Fort Snelling, Minnesota 1819 · Minnesota
  11. Fort Jesup 1822 · Louisiana
  12. Fort Vancouver, Washington 1824 · Oregon
  13. Fort Sumter 1829 · South Carolina
  14. Fort Pulaski 1829 · Georgia
  15. Bent's Old Fort 1833 · Colorado
  16. Fort Independence 1833 · Massachusetts
  17. Fort Warren 1833 · Massachusetts
  18. Fort Morgan 1834 · Alabama
  19. Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park 1845 · Florida
  20. Fort Jefferson 1846
  21. Fort Brown 1846 · Texas
  22. Fort Laramie 1849 · Wyoming
  23. Fort Wingate 1862 · New Mexico
  24. Fort Stevens 1863 · Oregon
  25. Fort Reno 1865 · Wyoming
  26. Fort Phil Kearny 1866 · Wyoming

Germany 23

  1. Leine Palace 1816 · Lower Saxony
  2. Ehrenbreitstein Fortress 1817 · Rhineland-Palatinate
  3. Schloss Tegel 1820 · Berlin
  4. Rosenstein Castle 1824 · Baden-Württemberg
  5. Glienicke Palace, Berlin-Potsdam ◆ 1825 · Berlin
  6. Hohenschwangau Castle 1833 · Bavaria
  7. Brunswick Palace 1833 · Lower Saxony
  8. Babelsberg Palace, Potsdam ◆ 1835 · Brandenburg
  9. Stolzenfels Castle ◆ 1836 · Rhineland-Palatinate
  10. Lichtenstein Castle 1840 · Baden-Württemberg
  11. Hambach Castle 1844 · Rhineland-Palatinate
  12. Schwerin Castle ◆ 1845 · Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  13. Hohenzollern Castle 1850 · Baden-Württemberg
  14. Orangery Palace, Potsdam ◆ 1851 · Brandenburg
  15. Herdringen Castle 1853 · North Rhine-Westphalia
  16. Welfenschloss 1857 · Lower Saxony
  17. Marienburg Castle, Hanover 1858 · Lower Saxony
  18. Wernigerode Castle 1862 · Saxony-Anhalt
  19. Reichsburg Cochem 1868 · Rhineland-Palatinate
  20. Neuschwanstein Castle ◆ 1869 · Bavaria
  21. Herrenchiemsee Palace ◆ 1878 · Bavaria
  22. Schloss Drachenburg 1882 · North Rhine-Westphalia
  23. Schloss Friedrichshof 1889 · Hesse

France 19

  1. Fort Boyard 1801 · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
  2. Château de Rastignac 1811 · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
  3. Château Lafite Rothschild 19th century · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
  4. Fort Mont-Valérien 1841 · Île-de-France
  5. Château de Ferrières 1855 · Île-de-France
  6. Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers c. 1855 · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
  7. Château de Sceaux 1856 · Île-de-France
  8. Château de la Borde 1863 · Centre-Val de Loire
  9. Château d'Abbadia 1864 · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
  10. Fort Teremba 1871
  11. Château de Chantilly c. 1875 · Hauts-de-France
  12. Fort de Roppe 1875 · Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
  13. Fort Vaux 1881 · Grand Est
  14. Castle Grésillon 1882 · Pays de la Loire
  15. Château de Keriolet 1883 · Bretagne
  16. Fort Douaumont ◆ c. 1885 · Grand Est
  17. Fort de la Redoute Ruinée 1892 · Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
  18. Fort de Mutzig 1893 · Grand Est
  19. Château de Trévarez 1893 · Bretagne

United Kingdom 17

  1. Belvoir Castle 1801 · England
  2. Scone Palace 1802 · Scotland
  3. Armadale Castle 1815 · Scotland
  4. Duns Castle 1816 · Scotland
  5. Gwrych Castle 1819 · Wales
  6. Penrhyn Castle 1820 · Wales
  7. Margam Castle 1830 · Wales
  8. Inverness Castle 1836 · Scotland
  9. Devizes Castle c. 1840 · England
  10. Taymouth Castle 1842 · Scotland
  11. Peckforton Castle 1844 · England
  12. Dunrobin Castle 1845 · Scotland
  13. Balmoral Castle 1853 · Scotland
  14. Crom Castle 19th century · Northern Ireland
  15. Belfast Castle 1867 · Northern Ireland
  16. Turnberry Castle 1873 · Scotland
  17. Castell Coch 1875 · Wales

Canada 7

  1. Old Fort Erie 19th century · Ontario
  2. Fort Carlton 1810 · Saskatchewan
  3. Fort Henry ◆ 1812 · Ontario
  4. Fort York 1813 · Ontario
  5. Citadelle of Quebec ◆ 1820 · Quebec
  6. Fort Conger 1881 · Nunavut
  7. Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site 1895 · British Columbia

Poland 7

  1. Modlin Fortress 1806 · Masovian Voivodeship
  2. Poznań Fortress 1828 · Greater Poland Voivodeship
  3. Warsaw Citadel 1832 · Masovian Voivodeship
  4. Kórnik Castle 1843 · Greater Poland Voivodeship
  5. Boyen Fortress 1844 · Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
  6. Dęblin Fortress 1845 · Lublin Voivodeship
  7. Osowiec Fortress 1882 · Podlaskie Voivodeship

Italy 6

  1. Castle of Sammezzano 19th century · Toscana
  2. Fort Bard 1830 · Valle d'Aosta
  3. Franzensfeste Fortress 1833 · Trentino-Alto Adige
  4. Rocchetta Mattei 19th century · Emilia-Romagna
  5. Miramare Castle 1856 · Friuli-Venezia Giulia
  6. Forte Buso 1890 · Trentino-Alto Adige

Luxembourg 6

  1. Schengen Castle c. 1812
  2. Walferdange Castle 1817 · Luxembourg
  3. Mamer Castle 1830 · Luxembourg
  4. Urspelt Castle 1860 · Diekirch
  5. Senningen Castle c. 1880 · Luxembourg
  6. Heisdorf Castle 1888 · Luxembourg

Sweden 6

  1. Karlsborg Fortress 1830 · Västra Götaland
  2. Vaxholm Fortress 1833 · Stockholm
  3. Charlottenlund Castle 1849 · Skåne
  4. Alnarp Castle 1862 · Skåne
  5. Sofiero Palace 1865 · Skåne
  6. Hjularöd Castle 1894 · Skåne

Czechia 5

  1. Hrádek u Nechanic 1839 · Hradec Králové
  2. Hluboká Castle 1840 · South Bohemian
  3. Sychrov Castle 1847 · Liberec
  4. Bouzov Castle 1895 · Olomouc
  5. Kačina 19th century · Central Bohemian

Ireland 4

  1. Spike Island 1804 · Cork
  2. Charleville Castle 1814 · Offaly
  3. Manderley Castle 1840 · Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown
  4. Glenveagh Castle 1869 · Donegal

Belgium 4

  1. Royal Castle of Ciergnon 1842 · Namur
  2. Loppem Castle 1858 · West Flanders
  3. Aertrycke Castle 1869 · West Flanders
  4. Fort de Loncin ◆ 1881 · Liège

Belarus 3

  1. Pishchalauski Castle 1825 · Minsk
  2. Brest Fortress 1833 · Brest
  3. Kosava Castle 1838 · Brest

Lithuania 3

  1. Tauragė Castle 1844 · Tauragė
  2. Kaunas Fortress 1879 · Kaunas
  3. Tiškevičiai Palace (Palanga) 1897 · Klaipėda

Japan 3

  1. Matsumae Castle 1850 · Hokkaidō
  2. Goryōkaku 1857 · Hokkaidō
  3. Maebashi Castle 1863 · Gunma Prefecture

Austria 3

  1. Burg Kreuzenstein 1874 · Lower Austria
  2. Itter Castle 1878 · Tyrol
  3. Schloss Velden 1890 · Carinthia

Malta 3

  1. Fort Delimara 1876
  2. Fort Madalena 1878 · Malta Majjistral
  3. Fort Mosta 1878 · Malta Majjistral

Morocco 2

  1. Kasbah Taourirt 19th century · Suss-Massa-Draa
  2. Telouet Kasbah 1860 · Suss-Massa-Draa

Haiti 2

  1. Fort Dimanche 1804 · Ouest
  2. Citadelle Laferrière ◆ c. 1805 · Nord

Malaysia 2

  1. Fort Cornwallis 1810 · Penang
  2. Fort Margherita 1879 · Sarawak

Pakistan 2

  1. Ranikot Fort c. 1812 · Sindh
  2. Jamrud Fort 1836 · Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Greece 2

  1. Ioannina Castle 1815 · Epirus
  2. Izzeddin Fortress 1872 · Crete

Switzerland 2

  1. Schadau Castle 1852 · Bern
  2. Château d'Ouchy 1893 · Vaud

Slovakia 2

  1. Leopoldov Prison 1855 · Trnava
  2. Rusovce mansion 19th century · Bratislava

Romania 2

  1. Peleș Castle 1873 · Prahova
  2. Cotroceni Palace 1888 · Bucharest

Taiwan 2

  1. Eternal Golden Castle, Tainan 1874 · Tainan
  2. Hobe Fort 1886 · New Taipei

Netherlands 2

  1. Pampus ◆ 1887 · North Holland
  2. De Haar Castle 1892 · Utrecht

Croatia 1

  1. Pejačević Castle in Virovitica 1804 · Virovitica-Podravina

Jersey 1

  1. Fort Regent 1806

Uruguay 1

  1. Fortaleza del Cerro 1809 · Montevideo

Latvia 1

  1. Daugavpils Fortress 1810 · Latgale

Bahrain 1

  1. Riffa Fort 1812 · Central

Indonesia 1

  1. Fort de Kock 1825 · West Sumatra

Curaçao 1

  1. Riffort 1828 · Curaçao

Finland 1

  1. Bomarsund 1832

Armenia 1

  1. Sev Berd 1834 · Shirak

Oman 1

  1. Nakhal Fort 1834 · Al Batinah South

Portugal 1

  1. Pena Palace ◆ 1838 · Lisbon

Chile 1

  1. Fuerte Bulnes 1843 · Magellan and the Chilean Antarctic

Hungary 1

  1. Citadella, Budapest c. 1850 · Budapest

Nepal 1

  1. Rasuwa Fort 1855 · Bagmati Zone

Australia 1

  1. Fort Denison 1857 · New South Wales

Saudi Arabia 1

  1. Masmak Fort, Riyadh 1865 · Riyadh

New Zealand 1

  1. Larnach Castle, Dunedin 1871 · Otago

India 1

  1. Buxa Fort 1873 · West Bengal

Russia 1

  1. Kerch Fortress 1877 · Volga

Singapore 1

  1. Fort Siloso 1878

Spain 1

  1. Castle of San Julián 1883 · Murcia

Namibia 1

  1. Schwerinsburg 1890 · Khomas

United Arab Emirates 1

  1. Al Jahili Fort 1891 · Emirate of Abu Dhabi