Germany · Still standing
Hohenschwangau Castle
Hohenschwangau Castle is a 19th-century Gothic Revival palace in southwestern Bavaria, built and remodelled for King Maximilian II of Bavaria and used as the childhood residence of his son Ludwig II. It stands above the village of Hohenschwangau near Lake Alpsee and is owned by the Wittelsbach family. The interior is noted for numerous 19th-century wall paintings depicting Schwangau history and medieval romances such as Parzival and Lohengrin.
First raised
1837
Its prime
1855
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1855
The shape it held in its prime.
Perched on a wooded rocky hill above Lake Alpsee, the palace presents a compact, crenellated silhouette of pale yellow plastered masonry with multiple cylindrical and polygonal towers rising from a rectangular central block. The exterior shows neogothic battlements and machicolation-like corbels, red-tile coping along parapets, rows of regular rectangular windows and a columned entrance with an ornamented balcony above. A low curtain wall with tooth-shaped merlons runs along the slope in front of the castle.
Step inside
9 places to explore in 1855.
The record describes 9 distinct spots at Hohenschwangau Castle — including 2 interiors: state rooms with historical wall paintings, annex room where the princes lived. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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See Hohenschwangau Castle with the fires lit.
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