Osterburg (Weida)
| Osterburg | |
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| The fortified house at Weida | |
| Weida | |
The Osterburg in Weida
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 Osterburg
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| Coordinates | 50°46′21″N 12°03′24″E / 50.7726°N 12.0568°ECoordinates: 50°46′21″N 12°03′24″E / 50.7726°N 12.0568°E |
| Type | hill castle |
| Code | DE-TH |
| Site information | |
| Condition | preserved or largely preserved |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1163 to 1193 |
The Osterburg 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.
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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