Type hill castle Built 1163 to 1193 | Code DE-TH Phone +49 36603 62775 | |
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Condition preserved or largely preserved Address Schloßberg 14, 07570 Weida, Germany Hours Closed today MondayClosedTuesdayClosedWednesdayClosedThursday10AM–6PMFriday10AM–6PMSaturday10AM–6PMSunday10AM–6PMSuggest an edit Similar Kloster und Schloss Mildenfurth, Oberes Schloss, Sommerpalais, Schloss Burgk, Burg Posterstein | ||
The Osterburg is a castle located conspicuously on a hill in the middle of the town of Weida in the county of Greiz in the German state of Thuringia.
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Its 54-metre-high bergfried is the third highest and one of the oldest surviving bergfrieds in Germany. Above its second array of battlements there is a watchman's parlour, which accommodated a watchman until 1917. On the terrace there is a monument which records that this was the furthest south that the ice sheet came in Germany during the Elster glaciation.
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