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Ahlden House | |
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Schloss Ahlden | |
General information | |
Type | Stately home |
Location | Ahlden |
Country | Germany |
Opened | 1549 |
Technical details | |
Material | Timber-framed |
Floor count | 2 |
Ahlden House (German: Schloss Ahlden) is a stately home at Ahlden on the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony, Germany. It was built in 1549, originally as a water castle on the river Aller, which has since changed its course. Nowadays the three-winged mansion is a private residence and is used as an arts auction house.
It is principally known as the place of imprisonment of Sophia Dorothea of Celle, otherwise Sophie Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg, wife of George I of Great Britain and the mother of George II of Great Britain.