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Festung Heldrungen

Germany

Heritage status
Heritage monument in Thuringia
Location
Heldrungen
Coordinates
51.2989°, 11.2189°
Links
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Festung Heldrungen in Germany
Photo: Varus111 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Festung Heldrungen is a fortress used until 1712, with two moats, four Vauban-style bastions and five roundels, and is located in Heldrungen in Thuringia, a district of An der Schmücke, on the southern edge of the Goldene Aue south-east of Bad Frankenhausen. The core of the fortress presents itself as a bastioned palace of 1519, while the surrounding ramparts and bastions date from 1668. The main gate of the fortress is in turn flanked by two mighty round towers.

Machine-translated from “Festung Heldrungen” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Festung Heldrungen ranks #6,960 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #743 of the 927 mapped in Germany. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 927 times in the last 60 days, more than 53% of the atlas. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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