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Brenz Castle

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brenz castle

Attribution: By Mkette - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15852619

Location
Sontheim, Heidenheim, Germany
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Built
17th century

Brenz Castle is Renaissance castle built in 1672 on the remains of an earlier castle destroyed during the Thirty Years' War.
Within the castle is a small Community Heritage Museum. The museum is described as a geological, paleontological and community heritage museum. The core of the museum is the collection of notable fossils from the Swabian Jura from professor Hans Wagner.

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