Bauska Castle

Bauska Castle
Zemgale, Latvia
Site information
TypeCastle
Open to
the public		Yes
ConditionPartly restored.
WebsiteBauska Castle and Museum
Location
Coordinates56°24′13″N 24°10′25″E / 56.40361°N 24.17361°E / 56.40361; 24.17361
Site history
Built15th.- 16th. century.
Built byLivonian order

Bauska Castle (Latvian: Bauskas pils; German: Schloss Bauske) is a complex consisting of the ruins of an earlier castle and a later palace on the outskirts of the Latvian city of Bauska.

While originally a hill fort, the Livonian branch of the Teutonic Knights built the castle in the fifteenth century, the palace was added in the sixteenth century, and restoration began in the nineteenth century.

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