In Jüterbog everything is different:
Old Town is actually New Town

Our hike starts at the palace garden (1). The so called Swamp Castle used to stand here. That is a Slavic castle on a broad dam that leads through swampy lowlands. The core of the old Jüterbog evolved here. You can still easily see the dam-like elevations around the former castle. About 1170 settlers from west of the Elbe erected St. Marien (2), also called Liebfrauenkirche or Dam church. It’s Jüterbog’s oldest church and it used to be the main church of the state of Jüterbog.

After receiving its town charter in 1174 citizens built the new Jüterbog on more elevated ground, on strayed strands. There it was dry. They built the new town with city walls and gates. The settlement around the Swamp Castle, which was later remodeled into a palace, stayed outside the walls. With its city gates, narrow alleys, the old city hall and remainders of the city wall the newer town seems like a romantic Old Town to us. One could say that the swampy ground was the main reason to build today’s Jüterbog.

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