Top 6 Castles around Edewecht

Events often take place on the castle square.

Excavations confirmed the existence of the complex - information boards: Three mountains used to be the Dreibergen castle hill. "Three mountains" stand out in the town of the same name on the northern shore of the sea. Many people have certainly puzzled over the hills. They are - as excavations by archaeologist Dr. Dieter Zoller prove - more than just simple elevations. In the middle of the twelfth century, a castle complex belonging to the Counts of Elmendorf stood here. Information boards present the history. https://www.bad-zwischenahn.de/de/gemeindeportrait/geschichte/Elmendorfer-Burg.php

As inconspicuous as the castle may be from the outside, it is all the more impressive from the inside. A visit is absolutely worthwhile and even teaches the locals something about "our" history. There are many interesting exhibits to discover. Tip: Drinks are not allowed in the museum. However, we were offered to keep our drinks behind the cashier. Very friendly staff!

The museum also shows changing exhibitions and has two other locations: the Augusteum houses the Old Masters Gallery, and the Prinzenpalais houses the New Masters Gallery with paintings from the 19th century onwards.

Historic representative rooms Some of the historic representative rooms in the castle have been largely preserved to this day. These include the Antiquarium, the oval reception room, the tower room, the blue, red and green salon, the Strack Hall, the throne room, the white hall, the marble hall, the idyllic room and the castle hall. The large castle hall was built in the neo-Renaissance style and decorated with ceiling paintings by the Delmenhorst-born painter Arthur Fitger (1840–1909). The oval reception room was designed under Grand Duke Paul Friedrich August in 1836. The room was to be completed the following year for the wedding of his daughter Amalie to the Greek King Otto I. The lavish plan approved by the Grand Duke included a "boiserie" (paneling) made of light satin wood and 48 mirrored panes for the doors. However, to the great annoyance of the Grand Duke, the work was not completed on time.

History The castle is based on a medieval lowland castle, which was built around 1100 by the Counts of Oldenburg to control a long-distance trade route from Westphalia to East Frisia. It was first explicitly mentioned in 1275, and a keep appears in a document in 1313. At that time, the individual buildings had to be founded on oak piles. Around 1400, the complex, which was laid out in a circle, was given a moat with an outer wall under Count Dietrich the Lucky, and thus became a moated castle. Numerous residential and commercial buildings were gathered in a small area, which housed a court of around 350 people around 1600. In 1573, the castle was considered dilapidated and was therefore renovated piece by piece. The keep in the middle of the courtyard had already become slanted by 1599 due to the marshy ground and was therefore demolished in 1608.

Elmendorf Castle, also called Elmendorf Castle or Three Hill Motte, is a ruined tower hill castle (motte) in the Dreibergen nature reserve on the northern shore of the Zwischenahner Meer near Elmendorf, a district of Bad Zwischenahn in the Ammerland district in Lower Saxony.

Exhibitions The museum also presents changing exhibitions and maintains two additional locations: the Augusteum houses the Old Masters Gallery, and the Prince's Palace houses the New Masters Gallery, featuring paintings from the 19th century onward. The palace gardens, which Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig had laid out as an English-style landscape garden at the beginning of the 19th century, are inextricably linked to the palace. Old solitary trees, streams, flowerbeds, and historic buildings such as the Tea Pavilion and the Court Gardener's House continue to characterize the landscape to this day.