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Summary
The thousand years old castle of Pottenstein,
located about sixty meters above the small town of Pottenstein (founded
in 1348), gives a beautiful and characteristical view of both landscape
and town.
Inside the castle a museum presents its objects
the old fashioned way starting with the cellar visualising the Thirty
Years War (1618 – 1648) in Germany besides some remarkable
historical and prehistorical findings of the territory, then three
completely furnished rooms, dining room with oven and a rotating
historistical painting from 1880 with hunting scenes made by a deaf
and dumb artist from Nürnberg, Paul Ritter.
Then you may see the „Red Saloon“
for formerly recieving guests and finally the Room of Saint Elisabeth,
Hungarian Princess and Landgravin of Thuringia, Central Germany.
The room reminds us of her staying in the
castle in 1228 for a few months.
Outside the building you may see an old springhouse
showing precious russian and german porcellaine of the 18 th century,
glasses and pottery and other objects of daily life.
You may follow the round entering the old
barn of 1580 sheltering two modern exhibitions about the old way
of taxes („Zehnt“) to the bishopric of Bamberg to which
castle had belonged for a very long time (from about 1120 until
1803) and the other one about the newest history of the castle concerning
the „private period“ of the last two centuries.
For the year 2004 a third exhibition is planned
about the history of castles in the area.
Nowadays the castle is inhabited since 1918
by the Family Baron and Baroness of Wintzingerode who permantly
lives there and maintaines it for coming generations. The family
is of old aristocrat origin and was mentionned first in a document
of the year 1120.
It founded the location of Wintzingerode,
Eichsfeld in Thuringia, middle Germany.
Freiherr von Wintzingerodesche
Burgverwaltung, 91278 Pottenstein, Tel.: 09243/7221,
Fax.: 09243/7332
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