Gifhorn Castle

Gifhorn Castle is a chateau in Gifhorn, Germany, worked somewhere in the range of 1525 and 1581 in the Weser Renaissance style. The palace was braced until 1790 with canals, bulwarks and bastions and was never caught. In the 16^th century it was the Residenz of the Duchy of Gifhorn under Duke Francis of Brunswick-Luneburg for only 10 years. This well-braced palace was worked in the state of a trapezium. It was encompassed by defenses and a canal up to 50 meters wide. The prompt region could be overwhelmed to make a marsh. Stone bastion towers were based on the four corners of the site.

These were connected to the manor by underground bulwark entries as casemates. A 45 meter long segment is safeguarded today that prompted the north bastion. Today is utilized to house displays for the stronghold historical center. The first access to the palace was over a scaffold on the tight side of the manor canal in the southeast, that prompted the gatehouse. Today the principle entrance is through the old south bastion which has been recreated utilizing segments of divider organized around. The present structure was worked from 1525 as a totally new chateau, not on the site of its forerunner, however on a slope on what was then the northern edge of the town of Gifhorn.