Aller - Castles and Monasteries

Castles and Monasteries

• Bartensleben Castle, built as a water castle
• Oebisfelde Castle, built as a Niederungsburg ("castle on the plain") probably in the 10th century on a sand bank in the Aller in a swamp area of the Drömling
• Wolfsburg Castle, built as a residential tower in the 14th century on the Aller and expanded into a water castle with fortifications
• Gifhorn Castle, completed in 1581 with fortifications
• Wienhausen Abbey, former Cistercian monastery from the 13th century
• Celle Castle, built in the 10th century as a fortified tower by a ford over the Aller
• Uhlenburg near Essel, built as a manor house in the 14th century
• Blankenburg Castle near Essel
• Ahlden Castle, built in 1549 as a water castle on the Aller; where the river bed became part of the Leine from 1618 when the Aller changed its course
• Bunkenburg, built as a circular rampart on the Aller in Ahlden (Aller) in the 13th century
• Hudemühlen Castle in the Hodenhagen sector of Hudemühlen, built in the 14th century as a castle, converted in the 16th century into a Renaissance castle and demolished in the 19th century
• Bierde Castle near Bierde
• Hodenhagen Castle near Hodenhagen
• Blankenhagen Castle near Grethem
• Rethem Castle in Rethem (Aller), built in the 13th century and expanded into a bastioned site in the 17th century
• Verden Cathedral, built in the 12th century