Estonia · 16th century
Purtse Castle (Estonian: Purtse mõis, German: Alt-Isenhof) is a castle of a local Purtse knight manor in Purtse, northeastern Estonia. It was built in the middle of the 16th century, probably by the landowner Johann von Taube, at a time when late Gothic ways of building were slowly being abandoned in favour of Renaissance ideas. The building therefore contains partly elements which were archaic even for its time, and partly examples of renaissance architecture.
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Purtse Castle ranks #4,817 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #27 of the 36 mapped in Estonia. Founded c. 1550, it is older than 36% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 886 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how Estonia compares in the castle statistics.
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