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Langenstein Castle
Schloss Langenstein
Langenstein Castle is a Renaissance-era palace built in the sixteenth century in Orsingen-Nenzingen in the Hegau region of southern Germany. The well-preserved complex remains a private residence of the Douglas family and houses a Carnival Museum and other estate uses today.
First raised
1100
Its prime
1560
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1560
What Langenstein Castle looked like in its prime.
Low-rise rectangular Renaissance palace composed of interconnected three-storey wings with pale cream rendered walls highlighted by red-painted stringcourses; steep slate hipped roofs and a shallow square roof tower with a small flag and three round oculi. Façades show regularly spaced small rectangular windows in symmetrical grids. A small round turret with a conical roof sits at the lower left, the complex rests on a gentle lawned slope with exposed stone at the base and no battlements.
Its story
The story of Langenstein Castle.
Langenstein Castle is a Renaissance building of the sixteenth century in Orsingen-Nenzingen, in the Hegau region near Lake Constance. Today it is owned by the Douglases, descendants of the Swedish count Ludvig Douglas, a well-preserved palace that remains a private family residence while housing a Carnival Museum, and is widely known for its golf course.
In 2014 Count Axel Douglas sold the castle and all its lands to his cousin, Count Christoph Douglas (1948–2016). Christoph's son and heir, Count Leopold Douglas, a member of the Swedish-German branch of Clan Douglas, lives in the castle with his family today.
Step inside
7 places to explore in 1560.
The record describes 7 distinct spots at Langenstein Castle, including 1 interior: palace interior (later carnival museum). Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more rooms, more angles, and more of the place to stand in.
Build Your Own Castle
Recreate Langenstein Castle with AI to explore it.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1560, a photoreal reconstruction that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
Recreate this castle →Castle Siege
Play Castle Siege at Langenstein Castle.
A strategy game played on Langenstein Castle’s real ground plan: the same surveyed walls shown in the archive below. Post your finite garrison on the battlements between assaults, then hold out as rams, siege towers, trebuchets and sappers arrive in ever-worse waves.
Sign in free to see the garrison muster. One castle costs 150 Clan Coins and is yours forever.
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Clans who held Langenstein Castle.
The families that held Langenstein Castle for a decade or more across its history, follow a name to its clan.
Owned by the Douglases, descendants of the Swedish count Ludvig Douglas; Count Leopold Douglas of the Swedish-German branch lives there today.
From the archive
Langenstein Castle on paper: the measured plan and period views.
The survey plan and photographs below are the ground truth this page's reconstructions are checked against, drawn and photographed while the castle was still a working garrison. Every image is public-domain or openly licensed, with its source named.
Eigeltingen: Schloss Langenstein, Parkseite
· State Archives of Baden-Württemberg (via Europeana)
CC BY
Eigeltingen: Schloss Langenstein, Parkseite
· State Archives of Baden-Württemberg (via Europeana)
CC BY
