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A wonderful destination for a day trip and highly recommended.

We took part in a guided tour – very impressive and highly recommended!

If the gate is open, take a look! Sometimes there's also a very interesting guided tour.

really very interestingly designed....

Info from: https://www.tourismus-thueringer-wald.de/kulturregion/mittelalterlicher-wohnturm-wandersleben In 1985, people were amazed when a tower was discovered during the demolition of a dilapidated half-timbered house. It turned out that it was a residential tower built around 1250 and was part of a larger manor house. The administrators of the complex were the Lords of Wittern. They once served the Counts of Gleichen as so-called ministerials. When Gleichen Castle was besieged by troops of Saxon electors around 1450, the residential tower also burned down and lost its rich interior. Around 1600, it was integrated into a newly built four-sided courtyard. After frequent changes of ownership, the dilapidated buildings became municipal property in 1975. During demolition work on the complex in 1985, the residential tower was rediscovered and later restored. Since 2006, the Wandersleben History and Local History Society has been looking after the tower and farm complex.

Here my path led past the castle.

Even today, the halls and rooms have largely been preserved in their original form and design in the style of high baroque and early classicism. In addition, the facilities and holdings have been in the same place for centuries. The world-famous collections can thus be experienced in their authentic location, which also includes the museum building, extensive parkland and various outbuildings. https://youtu.be/LA6scEcgqdA (Source: https://www.stiftung-friedenstein.de/schloss-friedenstein)