English: Vachdorf (Church-Castle); District of Schmalkalden-Meiningen; Federal State (and Free State) of Thuringia; Germany Build presumable in the 14/15th century; later changes; of special interest: Gaden-Kirchenburg (on the inner side of the curtain, within the courtyard there are reconstructed wooden houses for storing goods); tremendous size; once inner and outer curtain of which the inner still exists about 3 to 4 meters high (without battlement); in the Northwest there is one of the four former flanking towers the (“Hat-tower”) remaining. Gate tower with former additional outer gate (Barbakane);