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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.
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).
The best known is the bergfried of Steinsberg Castle. Frederick II's tower in Enna has an octagonal bergfried with a symmetrical octagonal enceinte. The octagonal bergfried of Gräfenstein Castle can be considered a special case in which plinth on the side facing the line of attack has been extended to form triangle, making the tower heptagonal.
Wolfsburg Castle The Schulenburg Palace in Berlin, later the Reich Chancellery at Wilhelmstraße 77, c. 1830. In 1718 Schulenburg married Anna Adelheit Catharina von Bartensleben, the daughter of Anna Elisabeth von Bodenhausen and Gebhard Werner von Bartensleben [], the owner of the manors Beetzendorf, Detzel, Klosterrode, Osterwohle and Ramstedt.
The troops fired on the castle with heavy cannon, including large calibre Fürmösers . Since then Lichtenberg Castle has lain in ruins, its use as a quarry to build the state farm (Staatsdomäne) of Lichtenberg only added to its demise. In the same year Mansfeld appeared in like manner before Neuhaus Castle in Wolfsburg.
The castle was built in three phases: the massive Bergfried (keep) and the east wing, which originated in a freestanding residential tower, are the oldest parts; the north wing was built between 1362 and 1375; and the castle took on its current appearance in a third period of construction in the early 16th century, when the south wing was added ...
Examples include those in Bad Homburg (the White Tower), Friedberg (the Adolfsturm), Idstein (the Witches' Tower and the bergfried of Idstein Castle) and Oberwesel (the "Oxen Tower"). The Marksburg above Braubach am Rhein had a square bergfried to which was added a small butter-churn turret in 1468. This burned down in 1705 and was replaced in ...
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