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Bertholdsburg Castle & the town of Schleusingen, Thuringia, Germany Thuringia is a small state in central Germany, famous as the home of Goethe, Bach, Schiller, Martin Luther (and bratwurst!). It is also distinguished architecturally by more than 400 castles, fortresses and palaces. The town of Schleusingen, in particular, offers a colorful view of an organic community that grew by accretion over the centuries in a dense concentration around Betholdsburg Castle (1223-1550). From medieval half-timbers and other vernacular buildings to more recent stucco- and metal sheathed additions, the townscape is a rich mosaic of local materials and traditional forms that climax expressively as they rise. It’s all about the roofs: steep, shaped and snow-shedding on the ridge of the Harz Mountains, a warm and timeless icon of shelter. Little wonder that the Bauhaus, which began in Thurginian Weimar, created such public controversy in its insistence on flat roofs.
