Dietz Castle
Dublin Core
Title
Dietz Castle
Subject
Photograph of Castle Dietz, residence of Stadtholder Nassau-Dietz of Friesland
Description
The Frisian stadtholders were endowed with the fiefdom Dietz in present-day Germany. The 'Duke's Castle' (built in the eleventh century) was the main residence of Sophia Hedwig von Braunschweig-Wolfenbütteland and she remained there after the death in 1632 of her husband, Stadtholder Ernst Casimir.
During the Thirty Years War Sophia Hedwig used the castle to shelter the local residents.
Source
Wikimedia Commons
Date
1632
Image
Part of Collection
Citation
“Dietz Castle,” The Wives of the Stadtholders: an exhibition, accessed January 15, 2026, http://emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/exhibition/sw/items/show/24.