Castles & Palaces

Visible from afar, they tower over the Goldene Aue - the white walls of Heringen Castle. The recognised cultural monument of national importance has been extensively renovated in recent years. The walls are around 700 years old and extend over ...

The 900-year-old ruins of Burg Hohnstein are surrounded by mixed forests in the southern Harz Mountains and tower above Neustadt.
The castle was built around 1200 by Konrad von Sangerhausen as the ancestral seat of the Counts of Hohnstein. ...

The Allstedt Castle and Palace Museum is permanently closed until probably summer 2025 due to extensive conversion and renovation work!The imposing silhouette of the Allstedt castle and palace complex rises above the southern Harz mountains. With ...

The Obere and Untere Sachsenburg have a long history. Saxons and Franks settled here as early as the 6th century, and their early fortifications grew ever larger over the following centuries. The two fortifications, which were probably connected ...

In the Kyffhäuser Mountains stands one of the most important monuments in Germany - the Kaiser Wilhelm National Monument. Built in honor of Emperor Wilhelm I and to commemorate the unification of the German Empire in 1871, the site is not only ...

The Heldrungen moated castle is the only completely preserved fortified moated castle of French fortification architecture in Germany. The first castle was built here at the end of the 12th century. From 1512 to 1519, the complex was rebuilt into ...

The listed Hue de Grais manor house in Wolkramshausen is an impressive half-timbered ensemble with a privately owned park. Step by step, the Werthern family, great-grandchildren of the former count's family, is pushing ahead with the restoration ...

The Burgruine Straussberg is somewhat hidden in the woods of the Hainleite, in the district of the same name in the town of Sondershausen. The castle was built in the 13th century. The owners of Burg Straussberg included the Counts of Hohnstein ...

The ruins of Burg Ebersburg lie on a porphyry cone on the southern edge of the Harz mountains, north of the village of Herrmannsacker, above the Gasthaus Sägemühle (Sawmill Guesthouse) on Breitensteiner Strasse.
The castle ruins that are over ...

The archaeological open-air museum Funkenburg in West Prussia is a reconstruction of a Germanic settlement that is unique in Germany. During excavations here in the 1970s, archaeologists found traces of a Germanic fortified settlement with around ...

Saxony-Anhalt's largest archaeological open-air and adventure museum is located on the western edge of the town of Tilleda.Against the majestic backdrop of the Kyffhäuser, the most important elements of such a palace complex from the 10th - 12th ...

For many centuries, Sondershausen Castle was the residence of the Schwarzburg counts, princes and rulers of the small state of Thuringia.The castle museum contains historical room settings (e.g. Liebhabertheater (theatre for lovers), ...