Editing Colditz Castle (section)

{{Short description|Renaissance castle in Colditz, Saxony, Germany}}
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| name                 = Colditz Castle
| native_name          = Schloss Colditz
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| image                = Colditz Castle 2011 b.jpg
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| caption              = Castle Colditz in 2011
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| architectural_style  = [[Renaissance architecture|Renaissance]]
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| client               = [[Augustus, Elector of Saxony|Augustus of Saxony]]
| owner                = [[State Palaces, Castles and Gardens of Saxony]]
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| location_town        = [[Colditz]]
| location_country     = [[Germany]]
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| architect            = {{Interlanguage link multi|Hans Irmisch|de}}<br />Peter Kummer
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[[File:Colditz Castle 1828 by Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, Albertinum, Dresden.jpg|thumb|Colditz Castle 1828 by [[Ernst Ferdinand Oehme]], [[Albertinum]], Dresden]]
'''Colditz Castle''' (or ''Schloss Colditz'' in German) is a [[Renaissance architecture|Renaissance]] [[castle]] in the town of [[Colditz]] near [[Leipzig]], [[Dresden]] and [[Chemnitz]] in the [[States of Germany|state]] of [[Saxony]] in [[Germany]]. The castle is between the towns of [[Hartha]] and [[Grimma]] on a [[hill spur]] over the river [[Zwickauer Mulde]], a tributary of the River Elbe. It had the first wildlife park in Germany when, during 1523, the castle park was converted into one of the largest [[menagerie]]s in Europe. 

The castle gained international fame as the site of [[Oflag IV-C]], a [[prisoner-of-war camp]] during [[World War II]] for "incorrigible" [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] officers who had repeatedly attempted to escape from other camps.