Most beautiful castles in Germany
The ruins of a medieval Castle of Frankenstein are located at 370 m high rocky outcropping in the German state of Hesse, about 5 km south of Darmstadt. The castle probably inspired the writer Mary Shelley to write her horror novel Frankenstein, but this has never been [...]
The idea to build Linderhof Palace came from the King Ludwig II of Bavaria while visiting the International Exhibition in Paris in 1867. Napoleon III took him to Compiègne, the Louvre, the Tuileries and Versailles. Ludwig II was so impressed of Versailles Palace that he returned to [...]
Cochem is a little town located on the lower reaches of the River Mosel and also a renowned wine region. The most famous is, of course, the Moselle Rieslings. Reichsburg castle which is a landmark of Cochem and of the region is over a thousand years old. [...]
Albrechtsburg castle is one of the most beautiful late Gothic buildings in Germany. It is located in Saxony, in the famous city of porcelain in Meißen. Albrechtsburg castle was built in the 15th century and it was the first castle in the history of German engineering. The [...]
Hohenschwangau Castle (Schloss Hohenschwanstein) is a 19th century palace in southern Germany in wonderful place in mountains. It was the childhood residence of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and was built by his father, King Maximilian II of Bavaria. It is located very close to the border [...]
Lichtenstein Castle is a castle built in the 19th century. It is located at the edge of the Swabian Alps, 817 metres above sea level. Inspired by Wilhelm Hauff’s novel “Lichtenstein” Count Wilhelm of Württemberg had it built in 1840-42. The site around the neo-Gothic castle is [...]
Löwenburg Castle (or Kassel Wilhelmshöhe in German translated as “Lion’s Castle”) is unique among all the castles in Germany in that it was conceived as a romantic medieval castle ruin. The design of Löwenburg Castle was based on a fantasy of Landgrave Wilhelm IX, but experts regard [...]
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