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Lower Sachsenburg (Hakenburg) Ruins

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Lower Sachsenburg (Hakenburg) Ruins

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    March 15, 2020

    Fantastic castle ruins with a great view of Sachsenburg and the Unstrut

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      September 4, 2022

      The lower castle, also called "Hakenburg", was built in the middle of the 16th century as an official
      seat prepared and converted to a castle-like three-wing complex. As at the
      At the turn of the 18th to the 19th century, the Saxon officials left the castle,
      the buildings were demolished. Today the lower castle consists of the keep,
      ten parts of the trapezoidal enclosing wall, the cellars and foundations
      the rest of the building. The one pushed out into the steep slope, with the circular wall
      The well house connected by a kind of bastion was blown up by the Wehrmacht in 1945.
      Source: Thuringian Palaces and Gardens Foundation

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        February 5, 2020

        The castle is romantically embedded in the forest, surrounded by trees with ivy.
        The wonderful view of the Unstrut and surroundings is great.

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          Location: Oldisleben, Kyffhäuserkreis, Kyffhäuserkreis, Thuringia, Germany

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