Coburg Castle

Today’s Saturday outing  took us to Coburg, about a 3 hour drive from Frankfurt.  We went with our department co-workers and we had an excellent sort of day.  We spent several hours in the castle. It was really well preserved and the rooms were filled with so many interesting things as you will see below.

This castle was built around 1200. It was a fortress for Electors of Saxony, then it became the seat for the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg. In more recent centuries, it became a place for wonderful art collections and armor collections and there’s a world-class glass collection. The woodwork in the castle is exquisite. There are so many beautiful things here.

A highlight was seeing the 2 rooms Martin Luther lived in while he was exiled in 1530. He lived there for 6 months during the Diet of Augsburg.  More about his living area in the next post.

A beautiful family tree:

A bit of bling:

A hunting hall:

A door with a window:

The castle chapel:

Beautiful fabrics and textures:

Such beautiful woodwork!

A painted room:

There were great art collections here.

The collections were throughout the castle.  It was really interesting to see so many different rooms and areas.

Next to the armoury.  So much time and energy used to create things to kill or to protect from being killed.  Just Be Nice.

Torture tools:

This huge room was filled with guns and swords and bows and spears.

Every soldier had a custom made suit of armour.  This was like the armour wearhouse.

Here is a world-class glass collection.  Many of these pieces were collected by the folks who lived here in the castle.

And, finally, a collection of carriages, sleighs and sleds, many from the 1600s and 1700s.  They were pretty incredible.