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LimburgCastle
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LimburgCastle |
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Limburg Castle
Castle of the Counts of Lahn
Limburger Schloss
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Creator/Agent :
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Gerlach von Ysenburg |
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Date (of work) :
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begun 13th century |
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Location/Site :
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Germany, Hesse, Giessen, Limburg an der Lahn [TGN] |
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GIS Coordinates :
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| Lat: 50 23 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 50.3833 decimal degrees |
| Long: 008 04 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 8.0667 decimal degrees |
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"About 800, the first castle buildings arose on the Limburg crags. This was designed for protection, probably for a ford on the river Lahn. In the decades that followed, the town arose under the castle’s protection. Limburg had its first documentary mention in 910 under the name Lintpurc when Louis the Child granted Konrad Kurzbold an estate in the community on which he was to build a church. Konrad Kurzbold laid the foundation stones for Saint George’s Monastery Church, where he was also buried. The community soon gathered importance with the monastery’s founding and profited by the lively goods trade on the Via Publica.
In 1150, a wooden bridge was built across the Lahn. The long-distance road from Cologne to Frankfurt am Main thereafter ran through Limburg. In the early 13th century, Limburg Castle was built in its current form. Shortly thereafter, the town passed into the ownership of the Lords of Ysenburg." [Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limburg_an_der_Lahn] |
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Architecture (object genre) [AAT]
Castle [AAT]
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stone (rock) [AAT] |
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half-timber construction [AAT] |
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Late Romanesque
Gothic
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Architecture -- Germany -- 13th century [LCSH] |
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