Neuenburg Castle (Freyburg)

Neuenburg Castle (German: Schloss Neuenburg) is a hilltop castle overlooking Freyburg, a town in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Neuenburg Castle
Schloss Neuenburg
View from Freyburg train station
General information
Typehilltop castle
Architectural styleRomanesque, Gothic and later additions
Town or cityFreyburg, Saxony-Anhalt
CountryGermany
Website
Schloss-Neuenburg.de

The castle was built around 1090 by the Thuringian count Ludwig der Springer, securing his territory in the east, as did its sister castle Wartburg in the west.[1] The name Neuenburg derives from German for "new castle".

From 1656 until 1746 it was a secondary residence of the Dukes of Saxe-Weissenfels.

Bergfried known as Dicker Wilhelm (Fat William)
Double chapel

References

  1. Archived 2011-03-08 at the Wayback Machine

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