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Tangermünde Castle

Germany · 17th century

Founded
1699
Heritage status
heritage monument in Saxony-Anhalt
Location
Tangermünde
Coordinates
52.5428°, 11.9775°
Links
OpenStreetMap · Wikimedia Commons
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Tangermünde Castle in Germany
Photo: Carsten Steger · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Burg Tangermünde, also called Schloss Tangermünde, is a partly preserved castle in the town of Tangermünde on the Elbe in the district of Stendal in Saxony-Anhalt.

As one of the earliest castles of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, it was laid out as early as about 925 as a border stronghold on the Elbe. It subsequently served the Ascanian margraves as a seat or travelling palace. Under Emperor Charles IV it was expanded around 1373 into the main residence of the March. The first Hohenzollern, Burgrave Frederick of Nuremberg, also mostly resided in Tangermünde after his appointment as Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg in 1415. Afterwards the castle became the administrative centre of the Altmark and the Prignitz. In 1640 Swedish troops burned it down in the Thirty Years' War. In 1699 an administrative office building (Amtshaus) was built in the only partly preserved complex.

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

In the rankings

Tangermünde Castle ranks #5,458 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #500 of the 927 mapped in Germany. Founded 1699, it is older than 22% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 755 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,428 times in the last 60 days, more than 66% of the atlas. The nearest day-trip guide is Berlin, 95 km away. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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