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Colditz Castle

castle in Germany: prisoner of war camp in World War II
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Colditz Castle

Summary

Colditz Castle is a château[1]. It ranks in the top 0.76% of ch_teau entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (742 views/month, #7 of 918).[2]

Key Facts

  • Colditz Castle is located in Colditz[3].
  • Colditz Castle is in the country of Germany[4].
  • Colditz Castle's image is recorded as SCHLOSS COLDITZ1.jpg[5].
  • Colditz Castle's instance of is recorded as château[6].
  • Colditz Castle's instance of is recorded as military museum[7].
  • Colditz Castle's instance of is recorded as hospital[8].
  • Colditz Castle's commissioned by is recorded as Augustus, Elector of Saxony[9].
  • Colditz Castle's owned by is recorded as State Palaces, Castles and Gardens of Saxony[10].
  • Colditz Castle's architectural style is recorded as Renaissance architecture[11].
  • Colditz Castle's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 136520850[12].
  • Colditz Castle's GND ID is recorded as 7564571-3[13].
  • Colditz Castle's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85118194[14].
  • Colditz Castle's location is recorded as Colditz[15].
  • Colditz Castle's Commons category is recorded as Schloss Colditz[16].
  • Colditz Castle's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 1351926[17].
  • Colditz Castle's located in time zone is recorded as UTC+01:00[18].
  • Colditz Castle's located in time zone is recorded as UTC+02:00[19].
  • Colditz Castle's archives at is recorded as Saxony State Archives Leipzig[20].
  • Colditz Castle's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 51.130783333333, 'lon': 12.807483333333}[21].
  • Colditz Castle's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/013bx9[22].
  • Colditz Castle's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ko20241238186[23].
  • Colditz Castle's ISIL is recorded as DE-MUS-716918[24].
  • Colditz Castle's official website is recorded as https://www.schloss-colditz.de/de/startseite/[25].
  • Colditz Castle's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Colditz Castle[26].
  • Colditz Castle's Commons gallery is recorded as Schloss Colditz[27].

Body

Ownership

Colditz Castle's owned by is recorded as State Palaces, Castles and Gardens of Saxony[10].

Why It Matters

Colditz Castle ranks in the top 0.76% of ch_teau entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (742 views/month, #7 of 918).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

Germany Yves Congar

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [3] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . archiv.sachsen.de. archiv.sachsen.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 20d ago · Ikan · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Location → Colditz
    Occupant → Oflag IV-C
    Archives at → Saxony State Archives Leipzig
    Wolfram language entity code → Entity["Building", "ColditzCastle::87c3n"]
    + 21 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P4839]]: Entity["Building", "ColditzCastle::87c3n"], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257096|batch #257096]]"
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