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Ziegenhain Fortress

Germany

Heritage status
Kulturdenkmal
Location
Schwalmstadt
Coordinates
50.911°, 9.235°
Links
Wikimedia Commons
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Ziegenhain Fortress in Germany
Photo: Carsten Steger · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Wasserfestung Ziegenhain is a Baroque fortress in the Ziegenhain district of Schwalmstadt in the Schwalm-Eder-Kreis in North Hesse. After the military structures in Kassel, Gießen and Rüsselsheim, it was the fourth-largest fortification in Hesse during the Thirty Years' War. In this war the fortress was not taken, withstood all sieges and was therefore the occasion for the coining of the saying “So fest wie Ziegenhain” (as firm as Ziegenhain). The complex is a protected monument.

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

In the rankings

Ziegenhain Fortress ranks #7,291 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #792 of the 927 mapped in Germany. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Frankfurt, 97 km away. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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