The castle Heidecksburg was the residence of the princes to Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in Rudolstadt. Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was a small state in Germany, in the present-day state of Thuringia formed in a resettlement of Schwarzburg dynasty family lands Rudolstadt is a Town in the German Bundesland of Thuringia, close to the Thuringian Forest to the southwest and to Jena The castle is located approximately 60 m above the old town of Rudolstadt. It was not destroyed during World War II. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including