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Key facts
- Architectural style
- Gothic & Renaissance
- Location
- Heidelberg , Germany
- Construction started
- before 1214
- Owner
- Bishop of Worms (first known owner), State of Baden-Württemberg
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- museum
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Heidelberg
- Elevation
- 213
- Material used
- sandstone
- Official website
- www.schloss-heidelberg.de
- Image
- Heidelberg-Schloß.JPG
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- Commons category
- Heidelberg Castle
- Commons gallery
- Heidelberger Schloss
- architectural style
- Renaissance architecture
- time of earliest written record
- 1214-00-00
- street address
- Schlosshof 1, 69117 Heidelberg
- P12749
- Jeremias Schröder
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Encyclopedic overview
Heidelberg Castle in 1620 Heidelberg Castle (German: Heidelberger Schloss) is a ruin in Germany and landmark of Heidelberg. The castle ruins are among the most important Renaissance structures north of the Alps.
The castle has only been partially rebuilt since its demolition in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is located 80 metres (260 ft) up the northern part of the Königstuhl hillside, and thereby dominates the view of the old downtown. It is served by an intermediate station on the Heidelberger Bergbahn funicular railway that runs from Heidelberg's Kornmarkt to the summit of the Königstuhl.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Heidelberg Castle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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