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Fürstenberg Castle and Porcelain Manufactory

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Fürstenberg Castle and Porcelain Manufactory

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Location: Fürstenberg, Landkreis Holzminden, Lower Saxony, Germany

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1. Lug ins Land Viewpoint – Descent Before Fohlenplacken loop from Bad Karlshafen

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2. Lug ins Land Viewpoint – Descent Before Fohlenplacken loop from Lüchtringen

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3. Weser Ferry Wehrden – Bad Karlshafen Harbor Basin loop from Höxter Rathaus

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June 27, 2022

Fürstenberg Castle is located in Fürstenberg (Weser) in the Holzminden district in the Solling-Vogler Nature Park and is the seat of the Fürstenberg porcelain manufactory, which was founded in 1747.

The castle, which is a listed building, has housed the Fürstenberg Castle Museum of the Porcelain Manufactory since 1957.

The striking rocky outcrop above the Weser as a ridge of the Kathagenberg appears in the sources as early as 1130 under the name "Vorstenberch" (Forstinberg). At what point in time a castle was first erected here to secure the military route and the Weser border across from Brunsburg and the town of Höxter on the other side of the Weser is unclear. The Fürstenberg came to the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel around 1300 as a fief of the Corvey Monastery and was first mentioned in a document in 1355. In the Schmalkaldic War, Fürstenberg was taken by Hessian troops in 1545 and largely destroyed.

Around 1600, Duke Heinrich Julius von Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel converted the fortifications into a hunting lodge, the façade of which was constructed in the Weser Renaissance style. The hunting lodge was also the seat of the Fürstenberg office, from where the princely lands and forest areas were administered. In the middle of the 18th century, the castle was only partially used as a hunting lodge and Charles I of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel commissioned his court huntsman Johann Georg von Langen to set up a porcelain manufactory, which was founded on January 11, 1747 and has been based in the city since around 1750 lock was.

In 1972, new production buildings for the porcelain manufactory were built next to the castle and production in the castle was discontinued. The subsequent additions to the original castle were removed again. The castle, which is now a listed building, has housed the museum of the porcelain manufactory since 1957 and provides an overview of its production from the beginnings of the Rococo period to the present day.

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Location: Fürstenberg, Landkreis Holzminden, Lower Saxony, Germany

Fürstenberg Castle and Porcelain Manufactory

1. Lug ins Land Viewpoint – Descent Before Fohlenplacken loop from Bad Karlshafen

2. Lug ins Land Viewpoint – Descent Before Fohlenplacken loop from Lüchtringen

3. Weser Ferry Wehrden – Bad Karlshafen Harbor Basin loop from Höxter Rathaus

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