Lithuania · Restored
Klaipėda Castle
Klaipėda Castle (Memelburg) was a Teutonic Knights castle founded in the mid-13th century on the right bank of the Danė river at Klaipėda. It was repeatedly rebuilt and by the 16th century had been transformed into an early bastion fortress with five towers and a broad six-storey main tower; the site was largely dismantled in the 19th century and today is an archaeological site and museum beneath the surviving bastion.
First raised
1300
Its prime
1559
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1559
The shape it held in its prime.
A compact riverside bastion-fortress of red brick and roughly coursed fieldstone, set on the right bank of the Danė near the Baltic. The castle in its prime shows continuous curtain walls punctuated by five defensive towers, the largest a roughly cylindrical main tower about six storeys high and ~15 m in diameter, all rising above low, sloping bastions adapted for artillery. Stone service ways and cobbled courtyards run along the bases of the walls, with small embrasures and repair patches visible in the masonry.
Step inside
5 places to explore in 1559.
The record describes 5 distinct spots at Klaipėda Castle — including 1 interior: prince fredric chamber under the bastion. 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 Klaipėda Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1559 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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