Haunted Places in Germany (65)

Explore 65 haunted places in Germany — castles, hotels, churches, ruins and more. Every location includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• 🏛️ The Executioner's House in Bernau Brandenburg In Bernau's executioner's house lived the man who burned the town's 'witches' – 28 names on the memorial stone bear witness to those who died in the torture cellar and at the stake.
• 🌲 The Kindel Woods near Schildow Brandenburg "If you helped hunt, you can help carry" – the hunchback on the Kindel bridge handed the night walker a parcel and fell backwards into the water. Inside the parcel lay a human leg.
• ⛪ Parochial Church Berlin Beneath the Baroque church floor rest 147 coffins behind three-hundred-year-old burial chamber doors – and when the pastor had them opened, 87 mummies stared back.
• 👻 Beelitz-Heilstätten Reported haunted location in Germany.
• 🚇 Köpenick Old Town Berlin Through Köpenick's night-time lanes rides a headless horseman on a white horse, followed by headless hounds – and by the Pyramid Bridge lurks the grey dog Morro with eyes of fire.
• 🌲 Blanke Helle at Alboinplatz Berlin The bottomless pool in the middle of the city bears the name of the death goddess Hel – and for generations it was said that Blanke Helle claimed one victim a year.
• 🏚️ Franciscan Friary Ruins Berlin In the ruins of the Grey Friary a monk limps between the pillars at night – Father Roderich, so cruel in life that he is not allowed to die.
• 🏰 Grunewald Hunting Lodge Berlin When the White Lady appears wearing black gloves, a Hohenzollern is about to die. Anna Sydow, the Elector's mistress, died a prisoner – but never left the lakeside hunting lodge. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🌲 Kleist's Grave at Kleiner Wannsee Berlin On the shore of Kleiner Wannsee the poet Heinrich von Kleist shot first his companion and then himself one November day in 1811 – they were buried where they fell.
• ⛪ St. Mary's Church Berlin By the door stands an atonement cross for the provost Berlin's mob beat to death and burned in 1325 – and inside, Death himself dances with emperors and beggars along the church wall.
• 🌲 Peacock Island Berlin The alchemist with ruby-red eyes is said to still roam Peacock Island. In the 1600s it was whispered that ships straying too close to the island rotted and sank.
• 🏰 Köpenick Palace Berlin From the palace bridge the princess threw herself into the moat for unhappy love – at night her white veil is seen fluttering from the palace island in the Dahme. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚰️ Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery Brandenburg Visitors meet figures among the graves at dusk — here lie 15,000 dead dug up in Berlin and carried out on the corpse railway.
• 🌲 Devil's Lake in the Müggel Hills Berlin Beneath the Müggel hills a whole castle sank into the black bog water with its cursed princess. To free her, you must carry her three times around Köpenick's church at midnight.
• 👻 Berlin Palace (Humboldt Forum) Berlin Anna Sydow, 'the beautiful foundress', has been said since 1598 to appear in the Berlin Palace as the Hohenzollerns' white harbinger of death. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⛪ Bonifaziuskapelle, Erfurt Reported haunted location in Germany.
• 🏰 Burg Berwartstein Reported haunted location in Germany.
• 🏰 Lauenstein Castle Bavaria Katharina von Orlamünde, said to have killed her two children with a golden needle, walks Franconia's medieval castle as a White Lady. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏚️ Rodenstein Castle Hessen When war threatens, the Rodensteiner is said to ride through the air with his ghost army – witness accounts were officially recorded from 1742 to 1796.
• 🏚️ Rötteln Castle Baden-Württemberg A noblewoman who drove the castle-building peasants to exhaustion was cursed by them – now she spins on the drawbridge at night as a White Lady.
• 🏰 Stolpen Castle Saxony Countess Cosel was held prisoner on the basalt fortress for 49 years until her death in 1765 – and is said to wander there still as a figure in white. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🛎️ Ehem. Grandhotel Waldlust in Freudenstadt Reported haunted location in Germany. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏥 Ehemaliges Königsberg Sanatorium Reported haunted location in Germany.
• 👻 Geistervilla am Burgberg in Verden Reported haunted location in Germany.
• 🌲 Ghost Forest of Nienhagen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Around the ghost wood they tell of drowned sailors whose spirits come up from the beach — and in the fog the trees move like beings.
• 👻 Grasbrook (Störtebeker Execution Site) Hamburg Pirate Klaus Störtebeker was beheaded here in 1401 – and is said to have risen headless and walked past eleven of his men before the executioner tripped him.
• 🏯 Gut Hasselburg Reported haunted location in Germany.
• 🏯 Satrupholm Manor Schleswig-Holstein The cruel lord of Satrupholm found no rest in the grave – his spirit beat and tormented the sleeping until a ghost-banisher was summoned.
• 🏯 Gut Scheifenhaus, Niepenberg Reported haunted location in Germany.
• 🌲 Lake Hertha (Jasmund) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern By the black forest lake on Rügen, the goddess Hertha is said to have had her servants drowned – and a white woman rises from the rampart under the full moon.
• ⛪ Hubertus-Kapelle Reported haunted location in Germany.
• ⛪ Lehnin Abbey Brandenburg A noblewoman who loved a monk is said to atone for her forbidden love among the abbey ruins – every minute of joy costing years of wandering.
• ⛪ Kloster Wessobrunn Reported haunted location in Germany.
• 👻 Köln Haus Fühlingen Reported haunted location in Germany.
• 🌲 Lake Mummelsee Baden-Württemberg In the Black Forest's darkest mountain lake, the lake king is said to rule his nymphs – and whoever mocks the deep is punished by the water itself.
• 🏰 Kranichfeld Upper Castle Thuringia A mother who killed her children is said to return to Kranichfeld's Upper Castle as a White Lady – to teach the living what fear is. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🚇 Pied Piper's House & Bungelosenstrasse Niedersachsen On 26 June 1284, 130 children vanished from Hamelin with the piper in motley – on Bungelosenstrasse, music is forbidden to this day.
• 🏰 Residenzschloss Rastatt Reported haunted location in Germany.
• 🌲 Rosstrappe Saxony-Anhalt Princess Brunhilde is said to have leapt the Bode gorge on horseback to escape the giant Bodo – the hoofprint is still visible in the granite.
• 🏰 Schloss Benrath Reported haunted location in Germany.
• 🏰 Bürresheim Castle Rheinland-Pfalz Diether von Breitbach murdered his daughter's secret lover – hunted by avengers, he plunged from the tower where his spirit is said to linger. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Colditz Castle Saxony Prisoners who faked an escape hid for months beneath the pulpit and were called ghosts — they only came out at night. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Nordkirchen Palace North Rhine-Westphalia The greedy steward Schenkewald is said to have haunted the 'Versailles of Westphalia' so fiercely that he was carried off in a black carriage to the Davert woods. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Schloss Rauischholzhausen Reported haunted location in Germany.
• 🏰 Rochsburg Castle Saxony Around the castle above the Zwickauer Mulde a burning monk is said to appear at night – a fiery glow that has frightened travellers for centuries. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Sachsenburg Castle Saxony The White Lady of Sachsenburg is linked to Magdalene von Schönberg's whitewashed tombstone – and to old tensions between lords and subjects. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Husum Castle Schleswig-Holstein Abandoned by her beloved, young Adelheid threw herself from the castle window – her body was never found, but the White Lady still glides through the corridors. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 The Spitting Stone (Domshof) Bremen For nearly two hundred years the people of Bremen have spat on the stone where the poisoner Gesche Gottfried's scaffold stood — the ritual lives on.
• 🏚️ Devil's Castle (Teufelsburg) Saarland A knight who sold his soul to the devil before a duel is still said to scream in the ruin as he is dragged towards hell.
• 🌲 Untersberg Bavaria Inside the Untersberg an emperor is said to sleep at a stone table – and on winter nights the Wild Hunt rides out of the mountain's gates.
• 👻 Bethanien at Mariannenplatz Berlin Generations of Kreuzbergers have met the deaconess in her headscarf in the long corridors — in the house whose name can be read as house of misery.
• ⛪ Tempelhof Village Church Berlin The Knights Templar gave Tempelhof its name – and legend insists a secret underground passage leads from their old fieldstone church by the pond.
• 🌲 The Holy Lake at Alt-Heiligensee Berlin A cursed castle sank into the holy lake with its princess, and on full-moon nights the bells toll from the deep – before a white woman rises from the water.
• 🌲 Babelsberg Hill Brandenburg Why does Babelsberg have two crests? The Potsdam legend answers with a wicked knight, helpful dwarves beneath the hill, and brave Mechtel fleeing with her child.
• 🚇 Petriplatz Berlin Tower after tower collapsed at Petriplatz — the ground where legend places the temple of the three-headed heathen god Triglav never let the church rest.
• 👻 The Tegel Haunting Berlin "For there are ghosts in Tegel" – the 1797 poltergeist in the chief forester's house grew so notorious that Goethe wrote it into Faust. The riddle was never solved.
• 🌲 Lake Straussee Brandenburg On moonlit summer nights a marble staircase opens down to the monastery on the Straussee lakebed – a fisherman once caught its bell Anne Susanne in his net, but the deep took her back.
• 🏰 Frankenberg Castle North Rhine-Westphalia In the castle pond at Frankenberg, Fastrada's enchanted ring is said to rest – the ring that bound Charlemagne to his dead queen. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Sterrenberg & Liebenstein Castles Rheinland-Pfalz The 'Hostile Brothers' of the Rhine are still divided by a feud wall – two castles, two brothers and a love that ended in a curse. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🌲 Witches' Kitchen of Tecklenburg North Rhine-Westphalia At the Hexenküche rock formation near Tecklenburg, the devil is said to have left a hoofprint in the stone – still visible today.
• ⛪ Chorin Abbey Brandenburg In the brick abbey of Chorin walked the white 'key-keeper' with her great bunch of keys – until a worker laughed at her slippers and she vanished forever.
• 🏚️ Kyffhäuser (Kyffhausen Imperial Castle) Thuringia Deep inside the Kyffhäuser hills, Emperor Barbarossa is said to sleep at a stone table while his red beard grows through the stone.
• 🏰 Celle Castle Niedersachsen The White Lady of Celle Castle is said to be Duchess Eleonore d'Olbreuse, still keeping watch over her residence at night. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🌲 Mount Watzmann Bavaria Berchtesgaden's mightiest mountain is said to be a petrified royal family – cruel King Watzmann, his wife and their seven children.
• 🌲 Schildhorn Berlin With Albert the Bear's riders at his heels, the Slavic prince Jaczo plunged into the Havel in full armour – pledging his soul to whichever god would let him reach the shore.

FAQ

How many haunted places are there in Germany?

Haunted Places lists 65 haunted locations in Germany, each with its story and GPS coordinates.

What are the most haunted places in Germany?

Among the most notable in Germany: The Executioner's House in Bernau, The Kindel Woods near Schildow and Parochial Church.

Can you stay overnight at haunted places in Germany?

Yes — 15 of the haunted places in Germany are hotels or inns you can book for an overnight stay. The rest are public sites you can visit.

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