Elisabethenburg Palace

Elisabethenburg Palace (German: Schloss Elisabethenburg) is a Baroque palace located on the northwestern edge of Meiningen in Germany. Until 1918 it was the residence of the Dukes of Saxe-Meiningen. The castle now houses the Meininger Museum as well as the Max Reger archives, the Thuringian State Archives, the Max Reger music school, the Johannes Brahms concert hall, a restaurant, the tower Cafe, and the ceremonial rooms of the Meinigen City Council and Registry Office.

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Elisabethenburg Palace ranks #4,153 of 8,764 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #333 of the 618 mapped in Germany. Founded 1692, it is older than 24% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 672 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,671 times in the last 60 days, more than 63% of the atlas. 4 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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