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The Wolfsburg is a medieval lowland and water castle in North Germany that was first mentioned in the records in 1302, but has since been turned into a Renaissance schloss or palace. It is located in eastern Lower Saxony in the town of Wolfsburg named after it and in whose possession it has been since 1961.
Bergfried (plural: bergfriede; English: belfry; French: tour-beffroi; Spanish: torre del homenaje) is a tall tower that is typically found in castles of the Middle Ages in German-speaking countries [1] and in countries under German influence. Stephen Friar in the Sutton Companion to Castles describes a bergfried as a "free-standing, fighting ...
Merian copperplate around 1650 of the village of Lichtenberg. Left: the ruins on the hill Ground plan of the castle. 1 Bergfried, 2 Ladies' apartment, 3 & 4 Domestic buildings, 5 Chapel, 6 & 14 Gate towers, 7 Round tower, 8 Great hall, 9 Tower with dungeon, 10 Well, 11 & 13 Curtain walls, 15 Dry moat
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The Osterburg (German: [ˈoːstɐˌbʊʁk] ⓘ) is a castle located conspicuously on a hill in the middle of the town of Weida in the county of Greiz in the German state of Thuringia. Description [ edit ]
Of the old castle on a site measuring 40 x 60 metres, only a small part of the bergfried has survived. The greater part of the castle was used as a quarry and much of the stone was carried away. The remaining tower ruins were extensively repaired. Originally the round bergfried was 33 metres high and had an outside diameter of 15 metres. Its ...
The ruins of the Wolfsburg by the western approach to Neustadt an der Weinstraße in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, lie on a rocky crag on the Wolfsberg hill about 130 metres over the left (northern) bank of the Speyerbach at a height of 270 metres above sea level (NN).
Wolfsberg Castle may refer to the following castles: Wolfsberg Castle (Carinthia) , in Wolfsberg, Carinthia , Austria Wolfsberg Castle (Harz) , a ruined castle in the Harz mountains, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany