# The most beautiful castles and palaces in Germany

Fairy-tale castles, knights' fortresses and royal residences that ADAC, DERTOUR and travel magazines mention again and again.

- 26 votes · 12 items
- May 13, 2021 · miriam_wanderlust
- https://even.best/en/l/492/the-most-beautiful-castles-and-palaces-in-germany

## Top 10

1. **Wartburg** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — UNESCO World Heritage castle near Eisenach where Luther translated the New Testament.
2. **Schwerin Palace** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Neo-Renaissance palace on an island in Lake Schwerin, seat of the state parliament.
3. **Eltz Castle** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Knights' castle in the forest near the Moselle, owned by the same family for over 850 years; once on the 500-mark note. <https://burg-eltz.de/>
4. **Heidelberg Castle** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Famous castle ruin above the Neckar with the Great Barrel.
5. **Marksburg** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The only never-destroyed hilltop castle on the Middle Rhine, near Braubach.
6. **Hohenzollern Castle** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Ancestral castle of the Hohenzollerns on a hilltop in Baden-Württemberg.
7. **Sanssouci Palace** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Frederick the Great's Rococo summer residence in Potsdam with vineyard terraces.
8. **Linderhof Palace** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The smallest of Ludwig II's palaces, with the Venus Grotto.
9. **Neuschwanstein Castle** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Ludwig II's fairy-tale castle in the Allgäu, with around 1.5 million visitors a year. <https://www.neuschwanstein.de/>
10. **Lichtenstein Castle** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Fairy-tale castle on a cliff in the Swabian Jura.
11. **Moritzburg Castle** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Baroque hunting lodge near Dresden, filming location of Three Wishes for Cinderella.
12. **Sababurg** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The 'Sleeping Beauty Castle' in the Reinhardswald forest in Hesse.

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