Moritzburg
The Moritzburg is a fortified castle in Halle, Germany. The cornerstone of what would later become the residence of the Archbishops of Magdeburg was laid in 1484; the castle was built in the style of the Early Renaissance.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: DerHallenser, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Moritzburg Art Museum and German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Photo: PaulT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, in short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle. Founded on 1 January 1652, based on academic models in Italy, it was originally named the Academia Naturae Curiosorum until 1687 when Emperor Leopold I raised it to an academy and named it after himself. German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina is situated 110 metres northwest of Moritzburg.
Halle Cathedral
Church
Halle Cathedral is an Evangelical Reformed Church, and is the oldest surviving church in the old part of the city Halle, Saale. Beside it resided the Archbishop of Magdeburg, who ruled the city for a long period. Halle Cathedral is situated 250 metres south of Moritzburg.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nördliche Innenstadt and Altstadt.
Moritzburg
- Type: Castle
- Description: Fortified castle in Halle (Saale) with an art museum
- Categories: museum building, museum, collection, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Halle (Saale), Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.48645° or 51° 29′ 11″ northLongitude
11.96368° or 11° 57′ 49″ eastElevation
90 metres (295 feet)Inception
1484Open location code
9F3HFXP7+HFOpenStreetMap ID
node 10755840332OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleGeoNames ID
8643108Wikidata ID
Q879819
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Panjabi—“Moritzburg” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Մորիցբուրգ”
- Bashkir: “Морицбург (Галле)”
- Bashkir: “Морицбург”
- Belarusian: “Морыцбург”
- Catalan: “Moritzburg”
- Cebuano: “Moritzburg”
- Chinese: “莫里茨堡”
- Czech: “Moritzburg”
- Dutch: “Landesgalerie Sachsen-Anhalt”
- Dutch: “Landeskunstmuseum Sachsen-Anhalt”
- Dutch: “Moritzburg”
- Dutch: “Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg”
- Dutch: “Stiftung Moritzburg”
- Esperanto: “Moritzburg”
- French: “château de Moritzburg”
- French: “Château de Moritzburg”
- French: “Moritzburg”
- German: “Burg/Festung Moritzburg”
- German: “Festung Moritzburg”
- German: “Landesgalerie Sachsen-Anhalt”
- German: “Landeskunstmuseum Sachsen-Anhalt”
- German: “Moritzburg”
- German: “Moritzburg)”
- German: “Moritzgalerie Halle”
- German: “Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg”
- German: “Stiftung Moritzburg”
- Italian: “Moritzburg”
- Japanese: “モーリッツブルク”
- Polish: “Moritzburg”
- Portuguese: “Moritzburg”
- Russian: “Крепость Морицбург”
- Russian: “Морицбург”
- Slovak: “Moritzburg”
- Slovenian: “Grad Moritzburg”
- Spanish: “Moritzburg”
- Swedish: “Moritzburg, Halle”
- Swedish: “Moritzburg”
- Western Panjabi: “مورٹزبرگ قلعہ”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Moritzburg”. Photo: DerHallenser, CC BY-SA 4.0.