Germany · 15th century
The Aurich Castle District lies in the former princely residence town of Aurich in East Frisia. The site was first a chieftain's seat, then the residence of the East Frisian counts and princes, and after their line died out, from 1744 the seat of Prussian, Dutch, French and Hanoverian administration in East Frisia. It later became the seat of the district government. Today it houses the Lower Saxony State Office for Salaries and Pensions as well as the regional court.
The present castle was built between 1851 and 1855 under district master builder Ernst Heinrich Blohm on the foundations of the castle built in 1448 by the East Frisian count Ulrich Cirksena.
Machine-translated from “Auricher Schlossbezirk” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Schloss Aurich ranks #7,279 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #653 of the 711 mapped in Germany. Founded 1448, it is older than 48% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 554 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
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