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Veste Coburg, the Coburg Fortress towers majestically over the town of Coburg. The fortress is one of the largest in Germany and almost 900 years old; first mentioned in a document dating back to 1225, when the Dukes of Merania controlled the area.
During its 600 years of military history, the fortress has never been taken by enemy forces. Only once, in 1536, during the Thirty Years' War, Imperial Army general Guillaume de Lamboy took the fortress after a five-months siege, using a faked letter in which Duke Johann Ernst allegedly ordered its surrender.
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