Germany · 16th century
Dömitz Fortress ranks #3,696 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #305 of the 714 mapped in Germany. Founded 1559, it is older than 36% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 887 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 2,139 times in the last 60 days, more than 71% of the atlas. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
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.
Text adapted from “Dömitz Fortress” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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