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Entrance to Schloss Braunfels from the town A view through the castle gates. During the Thirty Years' War, Braunfels Castle was contested and heavily damaged. [3] Due to his support for Frederick V, the Winter King, Count Johann Albrecht I of Solms-Braunfels was placed under Imperial ban, and in 1621, the castle was taken without resistance by Spanish troops on behalf of the emperor. [3]
The castle was made a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, along with Qal'at Salah El-Din, in 2006, [1] and is owned by the Syrian government. Smoke coming from the castle in August 2013, during the Syrian Civil War. Several of the castle's former residents built their houses outside the fortress and a village called al-Husn has since developed. [50]
This historic view of Dunnottar Castle by the Dutch engineer John Slezer is now recognised as an incorrect labelling by his engraver. It is actually Wemyss Castle in Fife. A chapel at Dunnottar is said to have been founded by St Ninian in the 5th century, [4] although it is not clear when the site was first fortified, but in any case the legend is late and highly implausible.
During the 14th and the early 15th century the castle was remodelled as a Gothic fortress. The Lords of Kravaře owned the castle until 1447, and it was then held mostly by a number of Moravian noble families, among them the Sovinec family, the Kostek of Postupice family, the Pernštejn family, the Ludanice and the Bruntálský of Vrbno family. [2]
Krak des Chevaliers was built during the 12th and 13th centuries by the Knights Hospitaller with later additions by Mamluks. It is a World Heritage Site. [1]This is a list of castles in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, founded or occupied during the Crusades.
Schloss Drachenburg or Drachenburg Castle is a private villa styled as a palace and constructed in the late 19th century. It was completed in only two years (1882–84) on the Drachenfels hill in Königswinter , a German town on the east bank of the Rhine , south of the city of Bonn .
Filisur is an Alpine village and former municipality in the Albula Region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.The village sits on a hillside with a view to the west where the two rivers Albula/Alvra from the Albula Pass and Landwasser from Davos meet.
Hohenzollern Castle (German: Burg Hohenzollern [bʊʁk hoːənˈtsɔlɐn] ⓘ) is the ancestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern. [a] The third of three hilltop castles built on the site, it is located atop Mount Hohenzollern, above and south of Hechingen, on the edge of the Swabian Jura of central Baden-Württemberg, Germany.