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Burtnieki Castle
🇱🇻 Latvia · 14th century
Burtnieki Castle (German: Burg Burtneck; Estonian: Asti ordulinnus) is a castle in Burtnieki Parish, Valmiera Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. It was built on the south shore of Lake Burtnieks for the Livonian Order around 1284.
The construction of the Burtnieki Medieval Castle was initiated around 1284 by Livonian Order Master Wilhelm von Schauerburg.
The original Burtnieki Castle lies in ruins, with walls reaching up to 4 meters high. [O]nly about 100 meters of the eastern curtain wall remain, unprotected and gradually deteriorating.
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Burtnieki Castle ranks #4,386 of 5,793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #34 of the 37 mapped in Latvia. Founded 1301, it is older than 66% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 346 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. See how Latvia compares in the castle statistics.
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