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Jagsthausen Castle

Jagsthausen Castle
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Jagsthausen Castle, later also called Altes Schloss (Old Castle) and more recently Götzenburg in reference to Goethe's drama Götz von Berlichingen, in Jagsthausen in the Heilbronn district of Baden-Württemberg, is one of the ancestral seats of the Lords of Berlichingen. The hilltop castle, situated on a slope above the Jagst valley, has been the setting for open-air plays since 1950.

The castle's medieval origins trace back to the Lords of Husen, but it has been rebuilt and extended several times, most extensively from 1876 to 1878 by the Ulm Minster master builder August von Bayer.

Since 1950, the castle has served as a venue for the Jagsthausen Castle Festival and has been marketed as Götzenburg since around that time. In fact, the historical Götz only lived a few years of his childhood in this castle and never owned the castle, which was inherited by one of his older brothers.

The castle is currently inhabited by Alexandra Freifrau von Berlichingen and her husband, former Federal President Roman Herzog.

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The complex, surrounded by a moat, still boasts considerable building fabric from the 15th and 16th centuries. Jagsthausen Castle consists of a palas with a knight's hall, a women's house with a bower, a keep, and a servants' building with large corner towers. In the castle museum, located in one of the corner towers, weapons, Roman antiquities, and the iron hand of Götz von Berlichingen are displayed. A park with romantic 19th-century ruin architecture surrounds the castle.

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Source: Wikipedia · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jagsthausen-goetzenburg-web.jpg

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