Heldburg Fortress

Local nameVeste Heldburg
LocationHeldburg, Deutschland

Heldburg Fortress is a high medieval hilltop castle. In the 16th century it was rebuilt into a renaissance castle. It rises on a former volcanic region to 'Heldburger Gangschar' counted, 405-metre-high volcanic cone, 113 metres above the town of Heldburg in the Heldburger Land, the southern tip of the district Hildburghausen in Thuringia. The Veste Heldburg, once a secondary residence and hunting lodge of the Dukes of Coburg, dominates the little town of Heldburg on the Thuringian border with Bavaria. From it can be seen across the Thuringian border the sister-castle Veste Coburg,, once the residence of the Dukes of Coburg, now located in Bavaria.

At the beginning of the 14th Century the hilltop castle was owned by the Counts of Henneberg-Schleusingen and served as the administrative and judicial seat after the regional power center on Struphe castle was abandoned. In 1374 the Veste Heldburg came into the possession of the Wettin family.

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heldburg_Fortress

Address 1 Burgstraße, 98663, Germany

Coordinates 50°17'20.01" N 10°43'43.844" E

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