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Schloss Fröhliche Wiederkunft

Germany · 16th century

Founded
1548
Style
Renaissance architecture
Heritage status
Heritage monument in Thuringia
Location
Trockenborn-Wolfersdorf
Coordinates
50.7878°, 11.7102°
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Schloss Fröhliche Wiederkunft in Germany
Photo: Michael Sander · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Fröhliche Wiederkunft Hunting Lodge in Wolfersdorf near Stadtroda in Thuringia is a former hunting lodge built between 1548 and 1550 by Nikolaus Gromann for Elector John Frederick the Magnanimous. It stands on an island in a small lake in the middle of the village.

Machine-translated from “Jagdschloss Fröhliche Wiederkunft” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Schloss Fröhliche Wiederkunft ranks #6,076 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #537 of the 714 mapped in Germany. Founded 1548, it is older than 39% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 887 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. 5 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. It is one of the 38 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Thuringia. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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