Heidelberg Castle
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Heidelberg Castle is a ruin in Germany and landmark of Heidelberg. The castle ruins are among the most important Renaissance structures north of the Alps.
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Heidelberg Castle in 1620
The earliest known depiction of the castle, from Sebastian Münster's Kalendarium Hebraicum published in 1527 (detail)
Heidelberg Castle courtyard around 1683, Johann Ulrich Kraus
House of Wittelsbach
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The House of Wittelsbach is a former Bavarian dynasty, with branches that have ruled over territories including the Electorate of Bavaria, the Electoral Palatinate, the Electorate of Cologne, Holland,
Heidelberg Castle
…The first mention of a castle in Heidelberg (Latin: "castrum in Heidelberg cum burgo ipsius castri") is in 1214, when Louis I, Duke of Bavaria of the House of Wittelsbach received it from Hohenstaufen Emperor Friedrich II. The last mention of a single castle is in 1294. In another document from 1303, two castles are…
The Wittelsbach dominions within the Holy Roman Empire (Bavaria, the Netherlands and Palatinate) 1373 are shown as Wittelsbach, among the houses of Luxembourg which acquired Brandenburg that year and Habsburg which had acquired Tyrol in 1369
Heidelberg Castle, the seat of the Electors of Palatinate until destroyed by the French in March 1689
Nymphenburg Palace
The Kingdom of Greece in 1861