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Schloss Burgscheidungen

Germany · 8th century

Founded
c. 750
Heritage status
Kulturdenkmal
Location
Laucha an der Unstrut
Coordinates
51.24611°, 11.63861°
Schloss Burgscheidungen in Germany
Photo: Karista-we · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Schloss Burgscheidungen is a Baroque palace in the village of the same name in the Burgenlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt. The complex, lying high above the Unstrut, goes back to a castle probably founded in the 8th century. The palace and the palace garden today belong to the project Gartenträume Sachsen-Anhalt.

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

In the rankings

Schloss Burgscheidungen ranks #7,658 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #838 of the 927 mapped in Germany. Founded c. 750, it is older than 95% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 51 atlas entries founded in the 8th century. 7 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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