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Landkreis Dillingen an der Donau
Höchstädt an der Donau

Bridge to Höchstädt Castle

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Höchstädt an der Donau

Bridge to Höchstädt Castle

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Bridge to Höchstädt Castle

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    Location: Höchstädt an der Donau, Landkreis Dillingen an der Donau, Swabia, Bavaria, Germany

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    February 4, 2022

    There's even a bridge to the castle :-)

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      November 10, 2024

      Höchstädt Castle in Höchstädt on the Danube is one of the most valuable buildings from the German late Renaissance.
      The castle was built between 1589 and 1603 at the request of Count Palatine Philipp Ludwig of Palatinate-Neuburg according to designs by Lienhart Grieneisen by court architect Sigmund Doctor as a three-storey building on a rectangular floor plan with more than 120 rooms, gables, stair towers and four round corner towers. The Gothic keep of a previous building was incorporated and defies symmetry.
      The castle served as a widow's residence for Philipp Ludwig's wife Anna von Jülich-Kleve-Berg, who lived there from 1615 to 1632. In contrast to her son Wolfgang Wilhelm, she remained a Protestant, as the painting in the castle chapel still testifies today. Wall paintings from the time of construction, stuccoed ceilings and inlaid portals have been preserved in the rooms. The castle later served as a district court with prison cells and, during the Nazi era, as a home for the Reich Labor Service.
      The Reich Leader Rosenberg Task Force (ERR), which was tasked with the theft of art in Europe, deposited over 550,000 objects of cultural property and scientific material, 14 railway wagons from Ukraine and 4 wagons of museum items from Minsk, in the castle in 1944 and employed a group of Ukrainian scientists to inventory them. The company was led by Paul Grimm, who was appointed curator, and by the directors Rudolf Stampfuß and Werner Hülle. In 1945, the objects were transported to the Central Collecting Point in Munich and restituted to the Soviet Union in 1946.
      The Bavarian Palaces and Lakes Administration began restoration in the 1980s. Since 2004, almost the entire castle has been restored and is accessible. Only the Duchess's bedrooms are still incomplete (as of 2007).
      Today (2007) the castle houses exhibition rooms for various traveling exhibitions, the Knights' Hall and the castle chapel as a concert hall, various seminar and conference rooms and the castle cellar as a venue for weddings, birthday parties, etc.
      Not least because of these numerous possible uses, the castle has developed into a cultural center for the community in recent years. In 2009, 12,900 visitors came.

      Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_H%C3%B6chst%C3%A4dt

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        May 1, 2025

        From here you can take good photos of the castle

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