Travel Guide Hohenzollern

Burg Hohenzollern is of these romantic castles, only Germany has the secret. Perched on its rocky spur, the advanced promontory of the small chain of the Swabian Jura, this splendid neo-Gothic castle reconstructed in the th century on the ruins of the medieval castle was the subject of special attention in the th century, during the dominion of Prussia, because it is the origin of the lineage of the Hohenzollern, which became the électeurs voters of Brandenburg, kings. from Prussia then German emperors, to Guillaume II. It was erected between 1846 and 1867 by Frederick-Guillaume de Hohenzollern, Prussian king. It was built as a family memorial to the glory of the Prussian dynasty, putting into practice all the romantic German imagination on the medieval past, then in full swing. A very picturesque site to visit, in the heart of Hohenzollern, a little Prussian enclave in the Swabian country and cradle of the family that was the German country's mistress for almost two centuries.