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Mansfeld Castle
Mansfeld, Germany, Germany
Mansfeld Castle (Schloss Mansfeld) in Mansfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, is a historic fortress perched on a rocky hilltop overlooking the town, first documented in 1229 as the seat of the powerful Counts of Mansfeld.
After a 1509 fire, it was rebuilt into three Renaissance palaces (Vorderort, Mittelort, Hinterort) with one of Germany's largest fortresses by the 1540s, where Martin Luther introduced the Protestant Reformation in 1540 and often visited due to family ties.
Besieged in the Thirty Years' War, the fortress was razed in 1674-75 on Saxon orders, leaving ruins, moats, and a Late Gothic church, with the surviving Vorderort later neo-Gothically remodeled in the 1860s and now a cultural site supported by a preservation society.
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Schloß Mansfeld 1, 06343 Mansfeld, Germany
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