Wasserburg Heldrungen

#1901 among destinations in Germany

Forts and castles

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Heldrungen Fortress is a fortress used until 1712 with two moats, four Vauban bastions and five roundels and is located in Heldrungen, Thuringia, a district of An der Schmücke on the southern edge of the Golden Aue southeast of Bad Frankenhausen. The core of the fortress shows itself as a bastioned castle from 1519, while the surrounding ramparts and bastions date from 1668. The main gate of the fortress is in turn flanked by two mighty round towers.

Coordinates: 51°17'56"N, 11°13'8"E

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Schlossstr. 13Heldrungen 06577 ThuringiaGermany

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Wasserburg Heldrungen – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Panorama Museum, Hohe Schrecke, Thuringian Gate, Obere Sachsenburg.

6.8 miNW
Specialty museum, Art museum, Museum
Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen
174 min walk • Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany, also known as the Peasants' War Panorama, is a monumental painting by the East German painter Werner Tübke, executed from 1976 to 1987. It spans 14 metres by 123 metres is the main attraction of the Panorama Museum, built specifically to house it, in Bad Frankenhausen, Thuringia.
6 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Hohe Schrecke
154 min walk • The Hohe Schrecke is a ridge of hills in central Germany. It lies mainly within Thuringia; the southeastern part around Lossa belongs to the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
2 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Valley
Thuringian Gate
52 min walk • The Thuringian Gate near Sachsenburg, a district of Oldisleben, west of Heldrungen in central Germany, is where the gorge of the river Unstrut breaks out of the Thuringian Basin through the Hainleite and Schmücke hills to the north.
2.5 miW
Forts and castles
Obere Sachsenburg
63 min walk • Obere Sachsenburg is a castle ruin near Sachsenburg, a district of the town and rural municipality of An der Schmücke in the Kyffhäuserkreis in Thuringia.
4.7 miS
Forts and castles
Schloss Beichlingen
121 min walk • Beichlingen Castle is located in the village of Beichlingen about 9 km north of Kölleda in Thuringia.
6.3 miNW
51°21'14"N • 11°6'7"E
Regionalmuseum, Bad Frankenhausen
162 min walk • Museum
2.4 miW
Forts and castles
Untere Sachsenburg
60 min walk • The Lower Sachsenburg, also called Unterburg or Hakenburg, is the ruin of a hilltop castle near Sachsenburg, a district of the municipality of An der Schmücke in the Kyffhäuserkreis in Thuringia.
6.5 miNW
Forts and castles
Oberburg, Bad Frankenhausen
167 min walk • Hausmannsturm is a high medieval fortification on a tiny hilltop above the town of Bad Frankenhausen on the southern edge of Kyffhäuser in the Kyffhäuser district of Thuringia. The castle is a protected monument whose grounds are used for tourism.