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3 unusual facts about Veste Coburg


Free State of Coburg

He received 1.5 million Marks as his compensation for his following properties – approximately 4500 hectares (11,120 acres) of forests, numerous buildings and individual properties as well as the art treasures of the Veste Coburg, the Veste’s courtyard garden museum, his personal library, the Ducal Theater, the Schloss Rosenau and its estate, the Veste Coburg, the Schloss Ehrenburg, and the State Archives of Coburg.

Veste Coburg

Within sight is located in the Thuringian border with Bavaria, the sister-castles Veste Heldburg (also called the "Franconian light"), once a secondary residence and hunting lodge of the Dukes of Coburg.

Veste Heldburg

Within sight is located in the Bavarian border with Thuringia, the sister-castle Veste Coburg (also called the "Franconian crown"), once residence of the Dukes of Coburg.



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