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Founded: 15th centuryCategory: Castles and fortifications in Germany
Historical period: Habsburg Dynasty (Germany)
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Eisenhardt Castle is located south west of Bad Belzig. There are traces of 3,000 years of building history on the castle hill. In the mid-15th century, the Electors of Saxony built a fortress and at the end of the 15th century, the facility was converted into a castle complex. The gatehouse with its cellular vaulting represents a unique connection between Saxon fortress and castle construction.
Eisenhardt was destroyed by Sweden in 1636. After a visit by the Prussian King Frederick William IV in 1849, extensive restoration works were carried out at the castle on his instruction. The complex was fully renovated between winter 1989 and 2008.
The local history museum is located in the Late Gothic gatehouse of Eisenhardt Castle. Here you can find information on the history of the castle and the site of the Battle of Hagelberg 1813, for example. The exhibition also includes a presentation on the Reich School of the Technische Nothilfe (Technical Emergency Service) and Roederhof women’s concentration camp in Belzig.The castle tower offers a beautiful view of the town and the Fläming landscape.
References:Radimlja is a stećak (monumental medieval tombstones, that lie scattered across Bosnia and Herzegovina) necropolis located near Stolac. The necropolis is one of the most valuable monuments of the mediaeval period in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The majority of its stećak tombstones date from the 1480s through the 16th century, as evidenced by the epitaph on one of the tombstones. This was the period when the family Miloradović-Stjepanović from genus Hrabren lived in the settlement located on near hill Ošanići. At the time the location was known as Batnoge, and the creation of the necropolis coincides with the rise of this noble family.
The necropolis includes 133 stećci. When the Čapljina-Stolac road was built during the Austro-Hungarian period in 1882, it ran through the necropolis and destroyed at least 15-20 tombstones.