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Schwedenschanze (Dörscheid)

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Schwedenschanze Dörscheid
Schwedenschanze Dörscheid

The Schwedenschanze in Dörscheid in the Middle Rhine valley is a Sternschanze or star-shaped fortification that was probably built when the Landgrave of Hesse was besieged by the Palatine Kaub in 1631/32 during the Thirty Years' War. The schanze lie 750 metres west of the village of Dörscheid on an eminence. It is no longer recognisable as a Sternschanze because it has been heavily slighted. Only at the southwestern tip is the bank up to about 2 metres high. There was once a ditch about five metres wide that is no longer visible.

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Schwedenschanze (Dörscheid)
B 42, Loreley

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56349 Loreley
Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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