Moritzburg

The Moritzburg is a fortified castle in Halle, Saale. In 1484, the foundation stone changed into laid for the later residence of the Magdeburg archbishops. It changed into built in the late gothic fashion and is nowadays one of the maximum extraordinary buildings of the Halle. In the Thirty Years' War in 1637 Moritzburg was largely broken via a hearth and in 1639 Saxon troops blew up the southwest bastion with a mine to pressure the Swedish occupation to surrender. After that, the fortress remained largely wreck and the house of the Magdeburg archbishop changed into additionally formally moved to the neighboring, constructed in 1531 New Residence.

The reign of the builder, Ernst von Wettin, is characterized on the one hand by using the victory over Halle 1479, on the other hand also by using his manifold promoting of the brand new royal house. His successor changed into elected in 1513 Albrecht V. Of Brandenburg. As Archbishop of the Reich, Cardinal, Archbishop and Elector of Mainz, Archbishop of Magdeburg, and administrator of Halberstadt, he stood together with his favorite house, the Moritzburg, at the center of European records.