Landskrona Citadel

Landskrona Citadel (Swedish: Citadellet or Landskrona slott) is situated in Landskrona, Scania, southern Sweden. Much of the original work is intact. Examples remain of all major parts of the fortification, which is uncommon in such an accessible area.

The moat around the central fortification is intact, as are the north-west and north-east parts of the outermost moat, which originally connected to a moat surrounding the city itself. Centermost, the citadel sits on an island surrounded by its own moat.

North of the fort, between the second, third and fourth moat is Sweden's oldest allotment-garden. Several of its garden houses are attractions in themselves. Also the fortress castle itself hides both history as such as well as historical horrors, like the 16th Century dungeon in the old western tower, into which the unlucky prisoners were thrown down through a hatch. If surviving the 4-5 meter fall, there then was neither any daylight or any way out. Also the eastern tower has in later centuries served as a prison for those serving life sentences. Around 1900 until 1940 a part of the fortress served as a forced labour institution for vagrant women After the Second World War, from May 1945, surviving Jews from Nazi German concentration camps were treated at the Citadel. They came with the Red Cross buses, locally known as "the White Buses".

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Landskrona Citadel ranks #2,214 of 7,738 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #53 of the 205 mapped in Sweden. Founded 1559, it is older than 38% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 718 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 3,075 times in the last 60 days, more than 75% of the atlas. 15 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Helsingborg, 20 km away. See how Sweden compares in the castle statistics.

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