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A great highlight 👍

Here is the stamp location 187 Lauenburg.

A beautiful viewpoint and a good place for a rest.

The remains of the Stecklenburg ruins.

The hilltop castle was built in the 11th century on the remains of an older castle complex. In the 12th century it was destroyed in a battle, but rebuilt. It was owned by the Knights of Stecklenberg, mentioned in the 12th and 13th centuries, whose descendants probably emigrated to the Baltic States, where Henricus de Stackelberg is first mentioned in Riga in 1306. The new owner of Stecklenburg Castle was the monastery in Halberstadt in 1281. The Stecklenburg Castle was inhabited until the beginning of the 18th century. After that, some of the castle buildings, such as the brewery and the castle chapel, were demolished. It became a complete ruin and served as a quarry. It was saved from complete destruction by the objection of the then head forester of Thale, who was committed to preserving the building. Source: Wikipedia

The complex was first mentioned in a document in 1312 as "castrum Königshof", when Bishop Albrecht von Halberstadt bought the castle from the squire Heinrich von Botvelde. In 1324 it was mentioned again as "castrum Köningshof acqisivit", then the castle went quiet. In 1614 the only other mention was of the keep at Königshoffe, which from 1709 onwards was only referred to as Königsburg. By then the complex had already fallen into ruins. When Paul Höfer carried out extensive excavations between 1898 and 1901, he believed that he had found the long-sought Bodfeld palace. He published several articles about it. In 1931, thanks to advances in soil research, this was proven to be a mistake by Carl Schuchhardt and confirmed a little later by Paul Grimm, who determined that the finds, especially the ceramics, were no older than the 13th century. Although these research results from the 1930s have been widely recognized in scientific research, Königshütte still advertises the fact that the Königsburg is the Bodfeld hunting palace and one of the most historic places in the Harz. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruine_K%C3%B6nigsburg

From up here you have a great view

It's just great and worth seeing😊