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Bran Castle. Bran Castle (Romanian: Castelul Bran; German: Schloss Bran or Die Törzburg; Hungarian: Törcsvári kastély) is a castle in Bran, 25 kilometres (16 mi) southwest of Brașov. The castle was built by Saxons in 1377 who were given the privilege by Louis I of Hungary. It is a national monument and landmark in Transylvania.
After the fort's destruction in 1242 by Mongols ("Tatars"), King Sigismund of Hungary ordered a stone castle to be built in 1377, while the settlement of Bran began to develop nearby. Positioned high atop a steep cliff, the castle guarded a strategic trade route between Transylvania and Wallachia. In 1498, Bran came under the jurisdiction of ...
Campbell Castle, Wichita, Kansas, built in 1888 for Burton Harvey Campbell in the Baronial style. [13] Canterbury Castle, also known as Arlington Castle, Portland, Oregon, built 1929–1931. Designed by Jeter O. Frye. The 6,000-square-foot (560 m 2), three-story house featured a moat, drawbridge, and towers. It was demolished in 2009.
In 1382, Bran Castle was built by the Transylvanian Saxons of Brașov to defend the Pass from the Ottomans. [2] In the year 1413, a customs post in the Pass was licensed by the ruler of Wallachia. This charged a duty on all goods brought through the Pass. [3] Southwards the usual trade route ran to Cetățeni, branching out to Popești and ...
Bran Castle Făgăraș Castle Râșnov Fortress. László Béldi Castle, Budila; Bran Castle (Törzburg), Bran; Brâncoveanu Castle, Sâmbăta de Sus; Brașov ...
Bran Castle ("Castelul Bran"), considered to be the home of Dracula; The City of Sighișoara, where you can visit the house in which Vlad the Impaler was born; Old Princely Court ("Palatul Curtea Veche") in Bucharest; Snagov Monastery ("Mănăstirea Snagov"), where, according to the legend, Vlad's remains were buried
Bran castle should not be mistaken for the actual Castle Dracula (now in ruins), which is located on the Arges River, at a more secluded site. Prince Vlad spent, I believe, one night there. Hence the 'Dracula's Castle' legend. Vlad was a Romanian, not Transylvanian prince (when they were separate entities).
Archduke Dominic of Austria, Prince of Tuscany (Niki) (born 4 July 1937), inheritor of Bran Castle; married Engel von Voss (31 March 1937 – 27 September 2000) on 11 June 1960, and had two sons. He divorced her in 1999 and married Emmanuella Mlynarski (born 14 January 1948) on 14 August 1999.