Rottleben Castle
Rottleben Castle is located in the village of Rottleben in the Kyffhäuserkreis in Thuringia .
location
Rottleben Castle is located on the southern slope of the small Kyffhäuser Mountains in the village of the same name. The Barbarossa Cave and the Falkenburg ruins are nearby . In terms of traffic, the village and thus the castle can be easily reached via the state roads 2292, 1172 and 1034, west of Bad Frankenhausen .
history
Before the village was officially named in 1125, the castle was already in the village. It was a seat of the lower landed gentry, the von Rothenburg . The estate and the country estate were one unit. Most recently the castle belonged to the Counts of Schwarzburg . They ruled and worked until 1945. Then the sex died out.
The property is currently empty.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Kahl: First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 240
- ↑ http://www.burgen-und-schloesser.net Germany Thuringia
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Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 47.4 " N , 11 ° 2 ′ 38.2" E