Nordkirchen Castle, known as the "Westphalian Versailles", builder prince archbishop of Plettenburg, beginning of the 18th century to the plans of Gottfried Laurenz Pictorius and his successor Johann Conrad Schlaun, Nordkirchen, Muensterland, North Rhine-

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