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In the year 950 AD, a castle was completed on the grounds of the Old Castle to protect the mare garden. In the 14th century, it was the home of the Counts of Württemberg and their Court Chamber. From 1553-1578, Dukes Christoph and Louis III renovated the castle adding an equestrian staircase built by Blasius Berwart in 1560 and the church and ...
A castle built on commission by Charles Eugene for his wife Franziska von Hohenheim. [2] Construction dragged on for 21 years, finally ending with the Duke's death in 1793. [ 3 ] After a further 20 years of continued maintenance of the gardens surrounding the abandoned and decaying palace , King William I and his wife Catherine founded an ...
Wirtemberg Castle, a ruined hilltop castle, is the second family seat of the House of Württemberg, whose ancestors had abandoned Beutelsbach Castle (also known as "Kappelberg Castle"). Built on the eponymous Württemberg mountain in a spur of the Schurwald around 411 m (1,348 ft) above sea level, it is located in the current municipality of ...
Altdischingen Castle, also called the "Old Castle", is a former hilltop castle around 400 m (437.45 yd) above sea level in the Solitude state forest range of Weilimdorf, a district incorporated into Baden-Württemberg's capital Stuttgart in 1933.
Urach Castle: sleighs of state. The museum today has a further seven branches throughout Württemberg referring to special topics: Schlossmuseum Aulendorf (Aulendorf Castle museum): old toys and art of the classicism period; Schloss Urach (Urach Castle): sleighs of state, 25 specimens, world's biggest collection of this kind
Lichtenstein Castle (Schloss Lichtenstein) is a privately owned Gothic Revival castle located in the Swabian Jura of southern Germany. It was designed by Carl Alexander Heideloff [1] and its name means "shining stone" or "bright stone". [2] The castle overlooks the Echaz valley near Honau, Reutlingen, in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
Hohenzollern Castle (German: Burg Hohenzollern [bʊʁk hoːənˈtsɔlɐn] ⓘ) is the ancestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern. [a] The third of three hilltop castles built on the site, it is located atop Mount Hohenzollern, above and south of Hechingen, on the edge of the Swabian Jura of central Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
In 1647 the castle was attacked by Swedish troops during the Thirty Years' War, however only the roof timbers were burned during the attack. During the beginning of the 18th century, the bishops began to build the New Castle at Meersburg as a modern residence castle. After 1750 the old castle served as a house for the administration of the city.