Petersburg Citadel

Petersburg Citadel in Erfurt, primary Germany, is one in every of the most important and first-class preserved town fortresses in Europe. The citadel turned into built on Petersburg hill, in the north-western a part of the antique metropolis centre from 1665, when Erfurt changed into ruled with the aid of the Electorate of Mainz. It is surrounded via over two kilometers of stone partitions and is 36 hectares in size. Erfurt has additionally been dominated by Sweden, Prussia, Napoleon, the German Empire, the Nazis, and post-World War II Soviet occupying forces, and it become a part of the German Democratic Republic East Germany. All of these regimes used Petersburg.

Citadel and had an influence on its development. The baroque castle become in military use till 1963. Since German reunification in 1990, the citadel has undergone enormous restoration and it is now open to the public as a ancient site. Its maze of underground passageways is likewise open to visitors and the citadel bakery 1832 is again in running order. Petersburg Citadel is entwined with the history of Erfurt. The metropolis changed into first noted in 742 in a letter from St Boniface to Pope Zachary, while the Catholic Diocese of Erfurt changed into set up. It changed into a part of the Holy Roman Empire, and turned into brought into the Diocese of Mainz in 755.