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Weikersheim
Weikersheim Palace (Schloss Weikersheim) is a Renaissance palace in the Tauber Valley of northern Baden-Württemberg and the ancestral seat of the Hohenlohe family. Its highlights are a splendid knights' hall with a painted coffered ceiling…
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Weilburg
At Weilburg the river Lahn loops almost all the way round a rocky spur, and Weilburg Palace sits right on top of it. The complex stretches 400 m along the eastern edge of the hill and covers nearly half of the old town. At its heart is a 1…
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Pommersfelden
Schloss Weissenstein in Pommersfelden is a showpiece of Franconian Baroque and is still owned by the Counts of Schönborn. Built as a country residence for a prince-bishop, it has a spectacular staircase hall, a marble hall and a picture ga…
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Wernigerode
Wernigerode Castle (Schloss Wernigerode) rises above the half-timbered town of Wernigerode on the northern edge of the Harz Mountains, and it looks like it was lifted from a fairy tale. Its towers and steep roofs date largely from a lavish…
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Schmalkalden
Above the old town of Schmalkalden stands a castle that the centuries have passed by almost without a trace. Landgrave William IV of Hesse began building the Wilhelmsburg as a secondary residence in 1584, and because it was hardly used lat…
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Kassel
Wilhelmshöhe Palace in Kassel is the grand Neoclassical centerpiece of the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2013. Behind its columned facade hangs one of Germany's finest Old Masters collections, with paintings by…
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Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg Castle (Schloss Wolfsburg) is the historic heart of Wolfsburg, the Lower Saxony city best known as the home of Volkswagen. The castle is more than 600 years older than the city, which actually took its name from it. A medieval mo…
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Oberschleißheim
Schleißheim Palace in Oberschleißheim, just north of Munich, is a complex of three Baroque palaces set in a vast French-style garden. The New Palace, with a facade more than 300 meters long, is the centerpiece, flanked by the Old Palace an…
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Essen
Villa Hügel is what you get when a steel magnate designs his home: 399 rooms, around 11,000 square metres of floor space, built to be as fireproof as possible and set high above the Ruhr valley. Alfred Krupp had it built in 1870–1873. Four…
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Isselburg
Anholt Castle (Wasserburg Anholt) in Isselburg, near the Dutch border on the Lower Rhine, is one of the largest and most beautiful moated castles in the Münsterland region. The princes of Salm-Salm have owned it since 1647 and still live h…