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Burg Cadolzburg

Germany

Heritage status
architectural heritage monument in Bavaria
Location
Cadolzburg
Coordinates
49.45995°, 10.85023°
Links
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Burg Cadolzburg in Germany
Photo: Derzno · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Cadolzburg is a medieval castle in the municipality of the same name, Cadolzburg, in the Middle Franconia region of the German state of Bavaria. The castle dates from the middle of the thirteenth century and was a stronghold of the Zollern family, from which came the House of Hohenzollern, which at first ruled as burgraves of Nuremberg and from 1415 also held the Margraviate of Brandenburg. Frederick I of Brandenburg had the Old Palace built and died in the castle in 1440.

The Cadolzburg was destroyed by a fire in 1945 and the present castle is largely a twenty-first-century reconstruction. The inner floors of the so-called New Palace have not been rebuilt; it was strengthened with concrete as an empty shell.

Machine-translated from “Cadolzburg (burcht)” on the Dutch Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Burg Cadolzburg ranks #9,278 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #925 of the 927 mapped in Germany. 5 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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