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Schloss Schwarzburg

Germany

Heritage status
Kulturdenkmal
Location
Schwarzburg
Coordinates
50.6383°, 11.1939°
Links
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Schloss Schwarzburg in Germany
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Description

Schloss Schwarzburg is a Baroque palace complex, today still largely in ruins, in the municipality of Schwarzburg in the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, about 65 km south-east of the Thuringian state capital Erfurt, on the northern edge of the Thuringian Forest. Built on a ridge projecting from the north-west into the valley of the Schwarza and falling away steeply on three sides, the former ancestral seat of the counts and later princes of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt dominates the region. As a result of large-scale demolition work in the period from 1940 to 1942 and the decades of neglect that followed, only a few buildings survived in their substance, among them the ruin of the main building, the armoury (Zeughaus) and the Kaisersaal, which is accessible to the public. Schloss Schwarzburg has been under restoration at great expense for many years and can by now be used for events.

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

In the rankings

Schloss Schwarzburg ranks #5,897 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #569 of the 927 mapped in Germany. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,145 times in the last 60 days, more than 59% of the atlas. 5 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. It is one of the 46 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Thuringia. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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