Select your most popular castle, most romantic park or most impressive garden in Germany.

Select your most popular castle, most romantic park or most impressive garden in Germany.

Our suggestions: Please select ... Albrechtsburg Castle, Meissen Altenstein Palace & Park Anholt moated castle, Isselburg-Anholt Arolsen Palace Augustusburg Palace & Falkenlust hunting lodge, Br�hl/Bonn Babelsberg Palace Bad Pyrmontspa gardens Bayreuth Benrath Palace & Park, D�sseldorf Blankenburg Castle & Garden Botanical gardens, Berlin-Dahlem Bremen B�rgerpark Br�hl Terrace, Dresden Burghausen Castle B�ckeburg Palace Celle Palace Charlottenburg Palace Chinese House Clemenswerth Hunting Lodge & Park, S�gel Coburg Fortress Corvey Palace, H�xter Dyck Palace, J�chen egapark Erfurt Eltz Castle English Garden, Munich European Rosarium, Sangerhausen Eutin Castle Fasanerie Palace Flower Island of Mainau Fortified island of Wilhelmstein, Wunstorf Friedenstein Palace, Gotha F�rstenlager Park, Bensheim Garden Kingdom of Dessau-W�rlitz Garden of the Senses, Merzig Glienicke Palace & Park, Berlin-Zehlendorf Golden Hall, Augsburg Gottorf Palace Granitz Hunting Lodge, R�gen Island Greiz Summer Palace Grosssedlitz baroque gardens, Heidenau G�strow Palace Hambach Castle, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse Heidecksburg Palace, Rudolstadt Heidelberg Castle Herrenchiemsee Palace Hohenzollern Castle, Zimmern Hornberg Castle Hundisburg Palace H�melschenburg Castle, Emmerthal Imperial Palace, Goslar Johannisburg Palace, Aschaffenburg Kaiserburg Castle, Nuremberg K�nigstein Fortress Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord Linderhof Palace, Oberammergau Ludwigsburg Palace Ludwigslust Palace Mannheim Palace Marienburg Castle Marksburg Castle Moritzburg Palace/Fasanenschl�sschen Moyland Castle Museum,Bedburg-Hau Neuschwanstein Castle, Hohenschwangau Neuzelle Abbey Garden New Palace, Bamberg New Palace, Potsdam Nordkirchen Palace Nymphenburg Palace & Park, Munich Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin Palmengarten botanical gardens, Frankfurt am Main Pillnitz Palace and park Planten un Blomen Park, Hamburg Pl�n Castle Prince P�ckler Park, Bad Muskau and Branitz Rheinsberg Palace Royal Herrenhausen Gardens, Hannover Sanssouci Palace & Park, Potsdam Schwerin Castle & Park Schwetzingen Palace Sch�nbusch Park, Aschaffenburg Solitude Palace, Stuttgart St. Emmeram Palace, Regensburg Stolzenfels Castle The Gardens of Kleve (Cleves) The Marble Palace in the New Garden Veitsh�chheim Palace & rococo garden Villeroy & Boch Abbey Garden, Mettlach Wackerbarth Stately Home, Radebeul Wartburg Castle, Eisenach Weikersheim Palace Weimar Palace & Ilm Park Wernigerode Castle Wilhelma zoological and botanical gardens, Stuttgart Wilhelmsh�he Palace & Park, Kassel W�rzburg Residenz Palace Zwinger Palace, Dresden �Favorite�Palace, Rastatt

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The Princes of Thurn and Taxis lived here for almost two hundred years after they moved from Frankfurt to Regensburg in 1748. In 1816, the palace was converted into a magnificent residence that is regarded as one of the most important examples of historicism in Germany. The marble staircase in the neo-Renaissance style is an impressive prelude to the state rooms that follow. A number of these splendid rooms were decorated with rococo furnishings from the family's Frankfurt residence. Striking examples include the “Yellow Salon” and the “Silver Salon”. The throne room is fittingly splendid with a gold and white décor, while exquisite tapestries by a student of Rubens hang resplendent in other rooms. The double-height ballroom, a blend of rococo and neo-rococo styles, exudes a glitteringly ceremonial atmosphere. Large mirrors and crystal chandeliers provide a shimmering backdrop for opulent festivals whose traditions are still very much alive today.
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• St. Emmeram Palace, Regensburg
 

The longest castle in Europe (1,043 metres) and one of Germany's largest, it perches high above the small baroque town of Burghausen in Upper Bavaria on the Austrian border, just like in a fairytale. Its many towers have seen more than a thousand years of history. This monument to late-medieval fortress architecture is laid out like a vast picture spread. The castle's present appearance with its fortified towers, walls which are five metres thick in places, outer wards, keep, ditches, banqueting halls and drawbridges dates from the 13th to 15th centuries. It also has dark chapters in its history, as evidenced by the witches' tower and torture tower (now a museum), the "Spinnh�usl" for female prisoners and the Prechtl Tower, in which the executioner lived in the 18th century.
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• Burghausen Castle
 

Sitting in splendour high above Eisenach on a steep 200-metre cliff, Wartburg Castle is synonymous with romance and religion, poetry and the fight for freedom. It is thought to have been founded by the Ludowingian dynasty in 1073. After wars of succession, it was held by the Wettin dynasty for 650 years. In terms of its architecture, it is a conglomeration of various styles and periods. The oldest part is the main building, a three-storey hall with the richly ornamented banqueting hall as its pièce de résistance. In addition to the architecture, which was restored after the 19th century, other impressive highlights at the castle include a collection of 9,000 historical objects including traditional crafts, coins, a Lutheran bible, and pictures from the studio of Lucas Cranach. Wartburg Castle was designated a national monument in 1817 when the German student fraternities made the first declaration of German unity there. It was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1999.
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• Wartburg Castle, Eisenach
 

Anholt moated castle in the western part of M�nsterland is one of Germany's few privately owned castles. The “fat tower” dating from the 12th century is still a characteristic feature of the castle, which was originally built on oak pillars with stone foundations and was later turned into a baroque residence in the 14th century. Today, the moated castle is used as a museum set up by Prince Nickolaus of Salm-Salm (1906-1988), where visitors can admire a private collection of art.
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• Anholt moated castle, Isselburg-Anholt
 

One of Europe's most famous attractions is a paradox: this gigantic castle overlooking the River Neckar is almost a ruin and you can only imagine just how beautiful the garden, once considered to be the "eighth wonder of the world", must have been. But it is this that gives Heidelberg Castle and park its captivating aura. With its other-worldly appearance, it is the epitome of German romanticism. Even the majestic castle ruins, overgrown with ivy, still reflect the power and magnificence of its former residents, the Wittelsbach dynasty. Built as a fortified castle with towers, casemates and moats in around 1300, this complex perched high above the town developed over four hundred years into a symbol of the feudal power of the Palatinate Electors of the time.
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• Heidelberg Castle
 

One of the highlights along the Romantic Road is Weikersheim Palace. It is the ancestral seat of the Hohenlohe family and considered a superb example of a country house and one of the most beautiful of the Hohenlohe residences. In the 16th century, Count Wolfgang II inherited Weikersheim after a division of estates and made it his main home. He had the moated castle converted into a magnificent Renaissance palace. Its splendidly furnished rooms have been preserved with their original furnishings, and the palace garden is watched over by more than 50 stone statues, including gnomes, dwarves and deities, as well as representations of the wind and other elements.
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• Weikersheim Palace
 

H�melschenburg combines all the attributes of a magnificent castle: an imposing triple-wing construction with moats, a fortified access bridge and two impressive octagonal towers housing the staircases. Its most striking features are the elaborately decorated gabled dormers which are clearly visible from afar. This medieval castle went on to become one of the most impressive architectural masterpieces in the region. It was built of Weser sandstone, which was much sought-after at the time. The castle's builders, J�rgen von Klenke and his wife Anna von Holle, lived with their children in the most magnificent section - the three-storey, richly decorated south wing in the Italianate Renaissance style. It was thanks to Anna's bravery that the entire castle was saved from being plundered and destroyed.
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• H�melschenburg Castle, Emmerthal
 

B�ckeburg Palace in Lower Saxony is still the ancestral seat of the Princes of Schaumburg-Lippe and one of the gems of the Schaumburger Land region. Although it was first referred to as a castle in records as far back as the 14th century, it was not until the middle of the 16th century that the four-winged Renaissance style palace was built. The palace owes its charming present-day appearance to extensive renovation work carried out over the last centuries. The interior highlight is the lavish palace chapel with its intricate gilded wood carvings. The palace is set in a picturesque park laid out in the style of an English landscape garden.
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• B�ckeburg Palace
 

In 1706 the Saxon Elector Augustus the Strong presented his beloved, the Countess of Cosel, with a little palace that also included an estate and vineyard. The dynamic regent then had Pillnitz Palace and Park converted into a splendid venue for extravagant festivities by his architect, Matth�us Daniel P�ppelmann. Pillnitz is a delightful amalgamation of romantic river and vineyard scenery, an idyllic park and a trio of fascinating and unique buildings. But the most beautiful aspect of Pillnitz is its park, which has remained true to its original design as a pleasure garden. Despite being continually altered down the years, the 28-hectare grounds have lost nothing of their former splendour and stand as a vibrant and delightful monument to landscape gardening over the centuries.
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• Pillnitz Palace and park
 

Just like Pillnitz Palace and park, Augustus the Strong had the baroque Zwinger Palace built by the architect Matth�us Daniel P�ppelmann. This fantastic “dream in sandstone” houses the acclaimed Old Masters Gallery and there has been a porcelain museum in the side wing since 1962. A beautiful dinner service from the palace's illustrious past is one of its finest exhibits.
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• Zwinger Palace, Dresden