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Crossen Palace

Germany · 10th century

Founded
c. 950
Location
Crossen an der Elster
Coordinates
50.97806°, 11.97514°
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Crossen Palace in Germany
Photo: Jwaller · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

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.

In the rankings

Crossen Palace ranks #6,838 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #610 of the 714 mapped in Germany. Founded c. 950, it is older than 92% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 192 atlas entries founded in the 10th century. 7 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. It is one of the 38 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Thuringia. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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