Bützow Castle () is a
castle
A castle is a type of fortification, fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by Military order (monastic society), military orders. Scholars usually consider a ''castle'' to be the private ...
in
Bützow, Germany.
The castle is built on the foundations of a
Slav
The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and N ...
fortress, and served as the residential castle of the
bishops of Schwerin. It was transformed into a
Renaissance
The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...
castle by
Duke Ulrich of Mecklenburg in 1556.
References
External links
Official site(in German)
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Castles in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
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