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Castle Attractions In Swabia

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Swabia is a cultural, historic and linguistic region in southwestern Germany. The name is ultimately derived from the medieval Duchy of Swabia, one of the German stem duchies, representing the territory of Alemannia, whose inhabitants interchangeably were called Alemanni or Suebi. This territory would include all of the Alemannic German area, but the modern concept of Swabia is more restricted, due to the collapse of the duchy of Swabia in the thirteenth century. Swabia as understood in modern ethnography roughly coincides with the Swabian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire as it stood during the Early Modern period, now divided between the states of Bava...
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Castle Attractions In Swabia

  • 1. Neuschwanstein Castle Hohenschwangau
    Neuschwanstein Castle is a 19th-century Romanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. The palace was commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and in honour of Richard Wagner. Ludwig paid for the palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing, rather than Bavarian public funds. The castle was intended as a home for the king, until he died in 1886. It was open to the public shortly after his death. Since then more than 61 million people have visited Neuschwanstein Castle. More than 1.3 million people visit annually, with as many as 6,000 per day in the summer.
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  • 2. Schloss Hohenschwangau Hohenschwangau
    Hohenschwangau Castle or Schloss Hohenschwangau is a 19th-century palace in southern Germany. 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 in the German village of Hohenschwangau near the town of Füssen, part of the county of Ostallgäu in southwestern Bavaria, Germany, very close to the border with Austria.
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  • 4. Harburg Castle Harburg
    Harburg is a quarter in the homonymous borough of Hamburg, Germany. It used to be the capital of the district in Lower Saxony. In 2016, the population was 26,098.
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  • 5. Schaezlerpalais Augsburg
    The Schaezlerpalais is a magnificent baroque palace in Augsburg. The Palace extends far back from the street, encompassing dozens of magnificent rooms, courtyards and gardens. The gilded, mirrored, ballroom, built between 1765-70) survives intact, and is widely regarded as the most artistically significant Rococo ball room in Germany. Carl Albert von Lespilliez was the architect of the Schaezlerpalais. The building is a registered historic monument declared by the State of Bavaria. The palace houses the following art collections Deutsche Barockgalerie, Southern German paintings of the 17th and 18th century Karl und Magdalene Haberstock-Stiftung Baroque paintings, e.g. Paolo Veronese, Canaletto, Anthony van Dyck and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Staatsgalerie Altdeutsche Meister with paintings ...
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  • 10. Wallerstein Schloss Wallerstein
    Oettingen-Wallerstein library is the former library of the princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein, now part of the collection of Augsburg University library. It contains some 1,600 manuscripts, 1,300 incunabula, 1,800 musical mss., 600 musical prints, and 117,000 prints of the 16th to 19th centuries. The collection contains the five libraries of secularized Swabian monasteries Kirchheim am Ries, Maihingen, Mönchsdeggingen, Füssen and Donauwörth. Besides this, bibliophile princes Kraft Ernst and his son Ludwig collected medieval manuscripts so avidly that the family fell into debt. The medieval collection includes the 8th-century Echternach Evangeliary, the illustrated bible of Sancho el Fuerte , and a Frankish psalter of the 13th century, fencing and tournament books of the 15th to 16th centu...
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  • 11. Castle of Hohenzollern Hechingen
    Hohenzollern Castle is the ancestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern. The third of three hilltop castles 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. The first fortress on the mountain was constructed in the early 11th century. Over the years the House of Hohenzollern split several times, but the castle remained in the Swabian branch, the dynastic seniors of the Franconian-Brandenburgian cadet branch that later acquired its own imperial throne. This castle was completely destroyed in 1423 after a ten-month siege by the free imperial cities of Swabia. A larger and sturdier structure was constructed from 1454 to 1461, which served as a refuge for the Catholic Swabian Hohenz...
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  • 12. Veste Coburg Coburg
    The Veste Coburg, or Coburg Fortress, is one of Germany's largest castles. It is situated on a hill above the town of Coburg, in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria.
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  • 13. Linderhof Palace Ettal
    Linderhof Palace is a Schloss in Germany, in southwest Bavaria near Ettal Abbey. It is the smallest of the three palaces built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria and the only one which he lived to see completed.
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