Giant castle
Riesenburg is the name of the following places:
- Prabuty , a city in Poland, Pomeranian Voivodeship (formerly Riesenburg in the Rosenberg district, Gdansk-West Prussia )
- Oleszno , a district in Poland, Greater Poland Voivodeship (formerly Riesenburg in the Altburgund district, Wartheland ); see Gołańcz
- Rýzmburk , a district in the Czech Republic, Královéhradecký kraj region (formerly a giant castle in the Nachod district, Sudetenland ); see Žernov u České Skalice
Riesenburg denotes:
- an oppidum in the Taunus, see Oppidum Riesenburg
- an oppidum in the Bohemian Forest, see Obří hrad
- a castle ruin in the Bohemian Ore Mountains, see Rýzmburk Castle
- a castle ruin in Eastern Bohemia, see Rýzmburk Castle (Eastern Bohemia)
- a noble family from North Bohemia, see Riesenburg (noble family)
- an East Bohemian noble family, see Rashin von Riesenburg
- a collapse cave near Doos in Franconian Switzerland, see Riesenburg (cave)
Riesenburg is the name of the following people:
- Boresch II von Riesenburg (around 1210 / 1215–1277 / 1278), Bohemian nobleman and politician
- Boresch III. von Ossegg and Riesenburg († before 1312), Bohemian nobleman
- Boresch IV von Riesenburg († before 1349), Bohemian nobleman
- Boresch V. von Riesenburg and Beschau († 1385), Bohemian nobleman and political advisor to Emperor Charles IV.
- Boresch VII. Von Riesenburg the Elder († before 1414), Bohemian nobleman
- Boresch IX. von Riesenburg the Younger († 1403), Bohemian nobleman
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