Estonia · Still standing
Kuressaare Castle
Kuressaare Castle is a medieval episcopal castle on Saaremaa island in western Estonia, originally built by the Teutonic Order for the bishops of Ösel-Wieck. It remained an important fortified bishop's seat through the late medieval and early modern periods and today is one of Estonia's best preserved medieval fortifications housing the Saaremaa Museum.
Its prime
1706
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1706
The shape it held in its prime.
A compact, square stone convent building with straight, light-coloured masonry walls and a tiled red-pitched roof; a taller northern defence tower rises above the roofline to about 37 metres. Small conical-roofed corner towers punctuate the corners. A crenellated defence gallery runs along the top and a gate with portcullis defences opens to a water-filled moat. The castle sits within a broad Vauban-style enceinte of earthen bastions and ravelins surrounded by water, with small single-storey outbuildings nearby.
Step inside
11 places to explore in 1706.
The record describes 11 distinct spots at Kuressaare Castle — including 6 interiors: central courtyard and cloister, refectory, chapel and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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See Kuressaare Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1706 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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