Regions

All regions

From the Alps to the Baltic coast — Germany is home to hundreds of castles and palaces. Choose a region and explore its landmarks.

Bavaria

From Neuschwanstein to the Plassenburg — Bavaria unites fairy-tale royal palaces with formidable hilltop fortresses on rock summits rising above 1,400 metres.

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Baden-Württemberg

Black Forest, Swabian Alb, and the shores of Lake Constance — Baden-Württemberg offers Hohenstaufen castles, Hohenzollern palaces, and romantic ruins set against breathtaking natural scenery.

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Rhineland-Palatinate

The Rhine valley with the Loreley and Pfalzgrafenstein, the Moselle with Eltz Castle — Rhineland-Palatinate is the very heart of German castle romanticism.

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Saxony

Festung Königstein, Schloss Moritzburg, Albrechtsburg Meißen — Saxony combines baroque splendour with cliff-top fortresses high above the Elbe valley.

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Thuringia

The Wartburg, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and place of the Reformation, is only the beginning — Thuringia earns its nickname the green heart of Germany through its castle landscape as much as anything else.

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Brandenburg

Between the Spreewald, Havelland and Uckermark: Brandenburg's moated castles, manor houses and palaces amid the lake district tell of Hohenzollern power and the nobility of the Mark.

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Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Lakeside palaces, Teutonic Order fortresses on Rügen, and Hanseatic defences — Mecklenburg-Vorpommern unites the Baltic coast with aristocratic heritage and Slavic ring-fort remains.

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