Fortress
Dömitz Fortress
🇩🇪 Germany · 16th century
The Dömitz Fortress (German: Festung Dömitz) is a bastion fort in Dömitz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It was built by John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, between 1559 and 1565, to secure Mecklenburg's border. The fort saw use during the Thirty Years' War and the Napoleonic Wars, and it was decommissioned in 1894. The fort is now in good condition, and it has been a museum since 1953. It is one of the few well-preserved 16th-century flatland forts in Northern Europe.
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Dömitz Fortress ranks #3,098 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #231 of the 349 mapped in Germany. Founded 1559, it is older than 42% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 437 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
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