ビーレフェルトの洞窟・トップ4

Small paths lead within the walls around the actual castle complex.

The Great Elector is a statue unveiled in 1900 in honor of Elector Frederick William (1620–1688) on the Sparrenburg in the East Westphalian city of Bielefeld. It is a gift from Emperor Wilhelm II to the city of Bielefeld. It is the first erected version of a work by the sculptor Fritz Schaper. It is part of the figure program that was erected between 1895 and 1901 on Berlin's Siegesallee. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Gro%C3%9Fe_Kurf%C3%BCrst_(Denkmal_auf_der_Sparrenburg)

Bronze model of the castle and fortress Sparrenburg.

The statue of the Great Elector Frederick William, erected in 1900 on the Sparrenburg, is a reproduction of the statue that Kaiser Wilhelm II had erected by Fritz Schaper on the Siegesallee in Berlin's Tiergarten. Today it stands with other Siegesallee statues in the Spandau Citadel. The Bielefeld statue in the inner courtyard of the Sparrenburg was erected in 1900 in the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the (nominally) last Count of Ravensberg. The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 confirmed Bielefeld's affiliation to Brandenburg-Prussia. In the following years, Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg, the Great Elector, stayed at the fortress several times. It served as his secondary Westphalian residence. Two of his children were born here.

The fortress in its state of 1741 is shown in the tactile model made from bronze by the artist Egbert Broerken of the Sparrenburg.

When more and more cannons and other firearms came into use after the invention of gunpowder, the old castle was expanded into an early modern fortress that could also withstand cannon fire and use its own cannons. Around 1530, a gun tower (battery tower) was built to the west - connected to the actual castle only by a stone arch bridge - which now also made it possible to use its own cannons for defense.

Here you can put your Friedrich-Wilhem underneath (if you have a son or dog with the same name).

Mighty walls give courage.