Palace & château
Crossen Palace
🇩🇪 Germany
Crossen Palace is a Baroque palace in the municipality of Crossen an der Elster in the east of the German federal state of Thuringia, located between Gera in the south and Zeitz in the north. It is situated on the hillside of White Elster valley.
The palace houses a ballroom with Italian Trompe-l'œil decorations in Baroque style. Currently, the palace is vacant and not open for public. Since 2007, it is owned by two investors from Ireland. Previously, it was owned by the State of Thuringia.
Text adapted from “Crossen Palace” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Crossen Palace ranks #6,827 of 8,764 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #579 of the 618 mapped in Germany. 7 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. It is one of the 34 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Thuringia. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Crossen Palace?
Crossen Palace stands in Germany, at 50.97806°, 11.97514°.
How famous is Crossen Palace?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #6,827 of 8,764 worldwide, and #579 in Germany. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Crossen Palace?
Schloss Tinz, about 11 km away.
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