Friedensburg Castle

Friedensburg Castle is an early 16th-century castle overlooking the valley of the Sormitz at Leutenberg in southeast Thuringia, Germany. It was formerly the residence of the Counts of Schwarzburg-Leutenberg and today is a dermatological medical facility.
In the 9th century CE, Slav tribes built a hill fort on the site of the castle to take refuge from the Sorbs to the east. There is evidence of a medieval fort beginning in the 14th century. It was the seat of the Ministeriales of Lutenberg , who are first mentioned in 1187. The Counts of Schwarzburg were lords of the castle by 1326 and from 1363 to 1564 it was the residence of the cadet line of Schwarzburg-Leutenberg, after which it became the dowager house for the main line, whose seat was in Rudolstadt. In the 16th century, constant inheritance conflicts emerged between the Houses of Schwarzburg and Leutenburg and the Counts of Orlamünde; the castle was renamed Friedensburg in 1564. It was little used from the mid-18th century on and passed out of the possession of the House of Schwarzburg in 1900. It became an inn in 1904 and a possession of the State of Thuringia in 1918.

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