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A lovely restaurant set on spacious grounds. The tower can be climbed, and from here you can also access the high street. 👍🏻

Landsberg Castle could certainly do more than just decay. It's a shame about this magnificent building.

Maienluft Castle must have been built before 1150 and was owned by the Knights of Wasungen. Around 1500, the castle lost its military significance and became an agricultural domain. The name Maienluft first appeared at this time. Today, there is a hotel here. Attention: The castle grounds can only be entered during opening hours. Contrary to the warning on the access road that there is a barrier with no turning possibility, you can drive up and there is even a parking space for hikers!

Nice place to stay for a short while.

The neo-Gothic building, built between 1836 and 1840, was built during the period of European castle romanticism, the most famous examples of which include Neuschwanstein Castle and Hohenzollern Castle. Other sources of inspiration for the building, however, came from England.

The two-storey building with the round stair tower now houses holiday apartments. Built around 1600, Johann Leopold von Geyso bought the estate in 1710 and added the stair tower to the front. The von Geyso family lived in the castle until the middle of the 19th century. It came into the possession of the Prussian Minister of Trade von Berlepsch via the industrialist Wenzel. Outbuildings and farm buildings fell victim to the great village fire in 1895. After the Second World War, the property was nationalised and the local administration and library moved in. A descendant of the von Berlepschs got the property back after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Walldorf fortified church is an impressive ensemble of buildings that has now been beautifully restored after a fire disaster. A tour is very worthwhile.

Unfortunately, Landsberg Castle, the former summer residence of the Dukes of Saxony-Meiningen, is now quite deserted on the hilltop. One can only hope that things will improve in a good way before the building structure is threatened.