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Burg Kalbe Ruins
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Julia
July 10, 2020
Cycling
Kalbe Castle is a former water castle from the 10th century - a ruin over 1,000 years old! A stop is worthwhile for the mystical atmosphere of the castle alone.
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DakenH
April 9, 2025
Cycling
Kalbe Castle is a historic moated castle first documented in 1196, but its origins likely date back to the 9th or 10th century. In 1324, it came into the possession …
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Klausi
February 9, 2026
Nordic walking
The moated castle was built in the 10th century as a Saxon border fortress against the Wends, presumably on the site of a Slavic hillfort in the Milde marshland. A nunnery founded under its protection, which the Obotrites destroyed in 983, existed here until 1121. The castle belonged to the four Altmark burgwarden (fortified districts), which administered the sovereign's judicial and military districts, along with Tangermünde Castle, Osterburg Castle, and Arneburg Castle. These protected the Frankish-colonized territory and the missionary monasteries between the Elbe and Milde rivers.
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