Must See Castles in Ore Mountains

Wildeck Castle

Wildeck Castle or Wildeck Palace is an old hunting lodge in Zschopau in Saxony. It stands on a rocky spur above the River Zschopau.

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Purschenstein Castle

Purschenstein Castle in Neuhausen/Erzgeb. in East Germany was built in the late 12th century, around 1200, probably by Boresch I.

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Freudenstein Castle

Freudenstein Castle is located on the Schloßplatz on the edge of the town centre of Freiberg in the German state of Saxony.

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Hoheneck Fortress

Hoheneck Women's Prison was a women's correctional facility in operation between 1862 and 2001 in Stollberg, Germany.

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Hartenberg

Hartenberg is the ruin of a chateau, formerly the castle over the village Hřebeny in the municipality of Josefov in the Sokolov District of…

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Dohna Castle

Dohna Castle on the once important medieval trade route from Saxony to Bohemia was the ancestral castle seat of the Burgraves of Dohna.

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Stein Castle

Stein Castle is a Saxon castle located southeast of Zwickau in the village of Stein in the municipality of Hartenstein on the rocky banks…

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