- Dankwarderode Castle
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Burg Dankwarderode Braunschweig
Burg DankwarderodeType lowland castle Coordinates 52°15′53″N 10°31′27″E / 52.26472°N 10.52417°ECoordinates: 52°15′53″N 10°31′27″E / 52.26472°N 10.52417°E Location code DE-NI Built 12th century Current
conditionReconstruction from the 19th/20th centuries Occupants higher nobility Museum Burg Dankwarderode
Dankwarderode Castle, rebuilt 1887–1906Established {{{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.
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.
External links
Categories:- Braunschweig
- Museums in Lower Saxony
- Romanesque architecture in Germany
- Buildings and structures in Lower Saxony
- Castles in Lower Saxony
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