Dankwarderode Castle

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Burg Dankwarderode
Braunschweig
Burg Dankwarderode.jpg
Burg Dankwarderode
Dankwarderode Castle is located in Germany
Shown within Germany
Type lowland castle
Coordinates 52°15′53″N 10°31′27″E / 52.26472°N 10.52417°E / 52.26472; 10.52417Coordinates: 52°15′53″N 10°31′27″E / 52.26472°N 10.52417°E / 52.26472; 10.52417
Location code DE-NI
Built 12th century
Current
condition
Reconstruction from the 19th/20th centuries
Occupants higher nobility
Museum Burg Dankwarderode

Dankwarderode Castle, rebuilt 1887–1906
Established {{{established}}}
Location Brunswick
Type Medieval Division of the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum
Website http://www.haum.niedersachsen.de

Dankwarderode Castle (German: Burg Dankwarderode) on the Burgplatz in Brunswick is a Saxon lowland castle. It was the residence of the Brunswick dukes for centuries and, today, is part of the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum.

[edit] Sources

  • Reinhold Wex: Burg Dankwarderode, in: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon, herausgegeben im Auftrag der Stadt Braunschweig von Luitgard Camerer, Manfred R. W. Garzmann und Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf unter besonderer Mitarbeit von Norman-Mathias Pingel, Brunswick, 1992, page 52, ISBN 3-926701-14-5.
  • Georg Dehio: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bremen/Niedersachsen, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1977.
  • Richard Moderhack: Braunschweiger Stadtgeschichte, Brunswick, 1997.

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