Saaleck Castle

Saaleck Castle is a hill fort near Bad Kosen, now part of Naumburg, Saxony Anhalt and Germany. In 1922, two of the men who had killed Walther Rathenau, the foreign minister of Germany, concealed at Saaleck Castle but had been tracked down via the police. The Nazi regime later put up a memorial plaque on the citadel and turned their grave in Saaleck cemetery into a heroes' shrine. The castle is now usually ruined, but its towers characteristic small famous and its miles a popular vacationer enchantment.

Saaleck Castle is a stop on the exact vacationer path Romanesque Road. In 1922, two of the assassins of German foreign minister Walther Rathenau had been spotted at the castle, whose owner became himself a mystery member of the Organization Consul. On 17 July they had been faced through two police detectives. While waiting for reinforcements all through the stand off one of the detectives fired at a window, unknowingly killing Erwin Kern with a bullet inside the head. Hermann Willibald Fischer then took his own life. The Nazis erected a memorial plate to them on the castle in July 1933.