Landestrost Castle (german: Schloss Landestrost) is a

castle A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars debate the scope of the word ''castle'', but usually consider it to be the private fortified r ...

in the

Weser Renaissance Weser Renaissance is a form of Northern Renaissance architectural style that is found in the area around the River Weser in central Germany and which has been well preserved in the towns and cities of the region. Background Between the star ...

style that was built between 1573 and 1584 in

Neustadt am Rübenberge Neustadt am Rübenberge ( nds, Niestadt) is a town in the district of Hannover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. At , it is the 9th largest settlement in Germany by area (following Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne), though only about 45,000 inhabitants live ...

in the north German state of

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

. Integrated into fortifications, together with the town, it developed into an urban fortress typical of the 16th century. The castle was the representative residence and administrative headquarters of its master, Duke Eric II of Brunswick-Lüneburg. During the construction period from 1574 he renamed the town of Neustadt as Landestrost, something which was reverted after his death in 1584.

Sources

* Veronica Albrink: ''„Große Pracht führen über Vermögen …“. Die Bauten und die Finanzen Erichs des Jüngeren von Braunschweig-Calenberg (1546-1584)''; in: Der Weserraum zwischen 1500 und 1650. Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Kultur in der frühen Neuzeit, hrsg. vom Institut für Architektur-, Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte in Nord- und Westdeutschland beim Weserrenaissance-Museum Schloss Brake, Marburg 1993, * Wolfgang Kunze: ''Leben und Bauten Herzog Erichs II. von Braunschweig-Lüneburg. Katalog zur historischen Ausstellung im Schloss Landestrost, Neustadt am Rübenberge''; Hannover 1993 * Burkhard Rühling: ''Festung und Schloß Landestrost, eine "Architectura militaris" - und "civilis" der Renaissance zu Neustadt am Rübenberge'', Hannover 1988, Dissertation * Ernst Andreas Friedrich: ''Wenn Steine reden könnten'', Band II, Landbuch-Verlag, Hannover 1992,

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Peat Museum

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