The Deutsches Burgenmuseum (German Castle Museum) is a in preparation historical museum at the fortress Veste Heldburg (Castle Heldburg) in the Heldburger Land and in district Hildburghausen in Thuringia.
After the death of her husband in 1914, Helene retired to her countryseat, the Veste Heldburg, where she died nine years later, aged eighty-three.
As late work he built masterful Renaissance building, which are considered his masterpieces : the Town Hall in Altenburg and the so-called New buildings in Weimar, the Grünes Schloß (now the “Duchess Anna Amalia Library” ) and the Französischen Bau of the Veste Heldburg ( today : German Castle Museum under construction) .
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1560-1564 expansion of the Veste Heldburg, construction of the French building of the fortress in the Heldburg(gotta fire in 1982, faithful to the original reconstruction since 1990, 2013: restored; furnishings with the Deutsches Burgenmuseum (German Castle Museum), Opening: 2015) and construction of the 114 meter deep castle well
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.
After several conquests and plundering during the Thirty Years War the castle was held in 1776 and re-attached residence of the Ernestine dukes of Saxe-Hildburghausen and finally in 1871 became the property of the ducal house of Meiningen.
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It rises on a former volcanic region to Heldburger Gangschar counted, 405 m high volcanic cone 113 m above the town Heldburg in the Heldburger Land, the southern tip of the district Hildburghausen in Thuringia.
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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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Johann Friedrich the Middle had it reconstructed in 1560 by his court architect Nikolaus Gromann in the style of the Renaissance (it was originally called the “Neuer Bau”, but today is known as the “Französischer Bau”) and removed the ducal residence.
Heldburg | Veste Heldburg | Bad Colberg-Heldburg | Veste Coburg |