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Balthasar Castle

Restaurant in Europa-Park

Balthasar Castle, also called Balthasarburg or Rust Moated Castle, is a former moated castle in the municipality of Rust in Baden-Württemberg. The listed building is located in the Europa-Park amusement park, which today is mainly situated on the former park grounds of the castle.

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From 1442, the castle was owned by the noble family Boecklin zu Boecklinsau, one of the oldest noble families of Strasbourg. It acquired the name Balthasarburg around the year 1500 through the founders of a family estate contract. Around 1575, the castle was rebuilt into its current form. In the 1970s, the Mack family bought the large castle park from the municipality to establish an amusement park there, which was intended to serve as an exhibition ground for the rides of the family's own company, today Mack Rides. The amusement park was opened on July 12, 1975, as Europa-Park.

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Source: Wikipedia · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

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