Hiking Highlight
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Location: Lenggries, Landkreis Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Landkreis Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany
The old Hohenburg Castle is now a Catholic girls' school. Nevertheless, you can walk through and a tour around the castle pond is very relaxing.
Info Wikipedia:
Already since around 1100 there was a Hohenburg near Lenggries, from which the fate of the Isarwinkel was directed for centuries. The original wooden structure was probably replaced by a stone structure as early as the 12th century.
Since 1566 this castle has been in the possession of the Augsburg noble family and patricians Hörwarth .......
In the aftermath of the Sendlinger Murder Christmas, a unit of no more than ten imperial hussars was quartered under one lieutenant. It was they who set the castle on fire on July 21, 1707 and were responsible for its destruction. Hofmarkherr Ferd, residing in Munich. Joseph Hörwarth von Hohenburg soon decided not to rebuild the castle, but to build a new one.
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Hohenburg_(Lenggries)
August 17, 2020
On the saddle you can rest very well under a tree and enjoy the sun
March 28, 2021
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