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Ortenbourg Castle
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Ortenberg is considered the highlight and ideal type of early Gothic castle construction in Alsace. The Kernburg rises on a granite rock, which is separated by a deep neck trench from the massif of the Knights Mountain. Directly above the ditch are the 18-meter-high, multi-kinked and pierced by loopholes mantle wall and the immediately behind it placed 30-meter-high, pentagonal keep the potential attacker against ...
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