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Heidelberg Castle
Heidelberg Castle is the ruined residence of the electors palatine above the Neckar in Heidelberg, Germany. Built and extended from the thirteenth century, it gained Renaissance palaces such as the Ottheinrich Building, but French troops blew up much of it in 1689 and 1693 during the Nine Years' War, and a lightning fire in 1764 ended plans to restore it. Its ruins became a symbol of German Romanticism.
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