Osterburg (Weida) Explained

Osterburg
Native Name:The fortified house at Weida
Built:1163 to 1193
Type:hill castle
Condition:preserved or largely preserved
Location:Weida
Coordinates:50.7726°N 12.0568°W
Map Type:Thuringia#Germany
Code:DE-TH

The Osterburg (pronounced as /de/) is a castle located conspicuously on a hill in the middle of the town of Weida in the county of Greiz in the German state of Thuringia.

Description

Its 54-metre-high bergfried is the third highest and one of the oldest surviving bergfrieds in Germany. Above its second array of battlements there is a watchman's parlour, which accommodated a watchman until 1917. On the terrace there is a monument which records that this was the furthest south that the ice sheet came in Germany during the Elster glaciation.

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