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Schloss Neuenstein
Neuenstein Castle (Schloss Neuenstein) is a Renaissance-era four-wing castle located in the centre of the town of Neuenstein, historically the seat of the Hohenlohe-Neuenstein line. Today it houses a castle museum and the Hohenlohe central archives and remains owned by the House of Hohenlohe.
Its prime
1600
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1600
What Schloss Neuenstein looked like in its prime.
A closed, four‑wing Renaissance castle set in the middle of the town, its masonry façades enclosing a rectangular central courtyard. A Romanesque keep rises at the northwest corner, while two high, cylindrical round towers occupy other corners and punctuate the silhouette. A stone bridge spans the approach to a decorated entrance portal bearing carved coats of arms. The roofline is interrupted by the towers and the continuous eaves of the surrounding wings; façades display regular rows of windows.
Its story
The story of Schloss Neuenstein.
Around 1230 the complex at Neuenstein belonged to the Lords of Stein, whose descendants took the name "von Neuenstein". About 1300 the estate came to the House of Hohenlohe, which owns the castle to this day, and Neuenstein became the seat of the Hohenlohe-Neuenstein line — one of the two main branches of the house fixed in the great division of 1551.
Count Louis Casimir of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (1517–1568), founder of the Neuenstein line, had the already-expanded medieval castle redesigned in Renaissance style by the Heilbronn master builder Balthasar Wolff. The result is a closed four-wing building of six floors, with the Romanesque keep of the earlier castle at its north-west corner, two high round towers, and an entrance bridge bearing the arms of Louis Casimir and his wife Anna von Solms-Laubach.
After Wolfgang Julius von Hohenlohe-Neuenstein died in 1698, the family moved its residence to Öhringen. From 1870 the Imperial Hall was renovated as the foundation of a family museum, and after the expropriation of the family's Silesian residence in 1945 and post-war sales of its other castles, Neuenstein is today both a museum — housing the shared Hohenlohe central archives — and the residence of the Prince of Hohenlohe-Oehringen.
Step inside
7 places to explore in 1600.
The record describes 7 distinct spots at Schloss Neuenstein — including 2 interiors: imperial hall (ceremonial hall), principal state rooms / family apartments. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more rooms, more angles, and more of the place to stand in.
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Clans who held Schloss Neuenstein.
The families that held Schloss Neuenstein for a decade or more across its history — follow a name to its clan.
Stein
Held by the Lords of Stein around 1230; their descendants called themselves "von Neuenstein".
Hohenlohe
Seat of the House of Hohenlohe from around 1300 to the present day.
