Nassau Castle
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Attribution: By Fritz Geller-Grimm - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3349431
Nassau Castle was the original seat of the House of Nassau. The House of Nassau was an aristocratic dynasty among whose descendants are the present-day monarchy of the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The ruins of the castle are situated on a rock outcropping about 120 m above the Lahn River.
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