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Clemency Castle (french: Château de Clemency, german: Schloss Küntzig lb, Schlass Kënzeg) is located in the little town of
"Barockbau mit modernem Ambiente: Schloss Küntzig in neuem Gewand: Keine verstaubte Antiquität, sondern eine gelungene Verbindung von Alt und Neu"
''Gemengebuet Gemeng Kéinzig''. September 2009, article from Luxemburger Wort, 8 May 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
Clemency Castle (french: Château de Clemency, german: Schloss Küntzig lb, Schlass Kënzeg) is located in the little town of Clemency
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which is close to the Belgian border in south-eastern Luxembourg
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. The small residential castle adjacent to the church was built in the 1660s in the Renaissance
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style. It had fallen into disrepair but was fully renovated in 2009 and is occasionally open to the public.
History
The castle was built in 1665 by Johann Ferdinand von Blanchard, a sire of Clemency. For building materials, he used the ruins of an earlier castle which stood on a site some 30 metres away from today's castle. Fifty years later, it was transformed into the Baroque style of the times. In 1721, after von Lanser had bought the property, it once again underwent transformations. In 1982, Jean Weis acquired the property which was inhabited until 2004.''Gemengebuet Gemeng Kéinzig''. September 2009, article from Luxemburger Wort, 8 May 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
See also
*List of castles in Luxembourg
By some optimistic estimates, there are as many as 130 castles in Luxembourg but more realistically there are probably just over a hundred, although many of these could be considered large residences or manor houses rather than castles.Evy Friedri ...
References
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