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Berlin Fortress
🇩🇪 Germany · 17th century
The Berlin Fortress (German "Festung Berlin") was the fortification of the historic city of Berlin. Construction started in 1650. The ramparts, walls, moats and glacis of the 17th-century bastion fort ran around the historic city limits. The demolition of its ramparts began in 1740.
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Berlin Fortress ranks #2,694 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #199 of the 254 mapped in Germany. Founded 1650, it is older than 29% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 259 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
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