Celle Castle

Celle Castle or, less commonly, Celle Palace, inside the German city of Celle in Lower Saxony become one of the houses of the House of Brunswick Luneburg. This quadrangular constructing is the most important castle in the southern Luneburg Heath location. Celle Castle is based totally on a fortified wall tower with the man or woman of a water fortress that guarded a ford over the River Aller. This first fortification, known as Kellu, turned into built by means of a Brunonen be counted round 980 AD. Another forerunner of the citadel, which might also were an extension of the wall tower, became based in 1292 via Otto the Strict.

The cellar vault and the decrease stories of the watch tower have survived to the modern. Its ruins lie below the citadel theatre. Around 1315 the real Cestrum Celle become first recorded. As a result of the War of the Luneburg Succession, in 1378 the Dukes of Brunswick-Luneburg moved their Residenz from Luneburg to Celle and started out reworking the Burg, now encircled by ditches and embankments, into a Schloss.