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Radolfshausen Castle
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West of Ebergötzen was the village of Radolfshausen, which probably became a deserted village around the turn of the 14th to the 15th century. At the end of the 14th century, a document mentions an outwork of Radolfshausen, which had been owned by the Lords of Plesse since 1437. They expanded the outwork into a moated castle in 1508, the main building of which was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War. An administrative building, erected in the 18th century and redesigned several times, served as the administrative seat of the Radolfshausen district, which existed until 1859; the former office later served as a forestry office. Numerous former outbuildings such as the prison, the brewery, and larger agricultural buildings were demolished after the office was dissolved. A massive, defensible residential tower from around 1500 with a rectangular floor plan and a 17th-century annex has been preserved. The residential tower, high medieval in its core, is built of rubble masonry, has three vaulted floors and is topped with a gabled roof; in the annex, only the lower floor is solidly built, the two upper floors are half-timbered with an overhang.
The grounds of the former Radolfshausen office now house the European Bread Museum.
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