Germany · 12th century
Gottorf Castle (German: Schloss Gottorf, Danish: Gottorp Slot, Low German: Slott Gottorp) is a castle and estate in the city of Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is one of the most important secular buildings in Schleswig-Holstein, and has been rebuilt and expanded several times in its over eight hundred years of history, changing from a medieval castle to a Renaissance fortress to a Baroque palace.
It is the ancestral home of the Holstein-Gottorp branch of the House of Oldenburg, from which emerged in the 18th century, among other things, four Swedish kings and several Russian Emperors. It is situated on an island in the Schlei, about 40 km from the Baltic Sea.
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Gottorf Castle ranks #475 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #42 of the 711 mapped in Germany. Founded 1161, it is older than 79% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 756 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 11,761 times in the last 60 days, more than 95% of the atlas. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
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