Leonberg Castle

After the old one-story building burned down at this point, Heinrich Graf von der Mühle-Eckart built the neo-baroque palace with a rich facade structure in 1885-90. The executing construction company was the well-known company Heilmann from Munich, which is said to have used designs by Leo von Klenze.
Apart from interior modernizations, the castle has remained more or less unchanged since the time it was built. In the aerial photo you can see a three-wing system.
The east facade facing the local church of St. Leonhard is delimited by a small garden with high brick columns and an iron railing. The carved entrance door and the bulbous balcony with iron grating emphasize the central axis of the seven-axle building. The main entrance leads into a barrel-vaulted and stuccoed vestibule with ornate glass doors. This is followed by the centrally located staircase with a gallery. In the stucco of the stairwell, the family coat of arms is depicted in a round scrollwork cartouche. Some of the living and representational rooms also have stucco ceilings. On the west wing of the palace there is a roof turret with a viewing platform.
The castle includes a farm building attached to the castle building, which bears the year 1877. The neo-baroque garden was transformed into a park.
It is worth mentioning that the American General George S. Patton, Commander-in-Chief of the 3rd Army, took up quarters in Leonberg Castle for several weeks from April 23, 1945. At that time everything in the castle that wasn't nailed down was said to have been taken away.
The castle is still the seat of the count's family Von der Mühle-Eckart and Maximilian Freiherr von Wiedersperg and is not open to the public.

Source: Wikipedia

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