Below, we highlight some of Germany's most stunning castles ... King Ludwig II's boyhood home. The original medieval ruins of this golden-hued castle were purchased and rebuilt by Crown Prince ...

Situated on a forested hilltop in northern Germany, Sparrenburg Castle ... the partially uncovered steps. The medieval stairs originally started inside the castle’s defensive wall and led ...

It was built by Duke Albrecht III in the area of the outer castle. The medieval building fabric and the late Gothic interior of the former court church can be seen almost completely in their old form.

What originated in the late 1300s as a small, moated Gothic castle was transformed over the centuries by the Bavarian Wittelsbach dynasty to become the largest city palace in Germany. From 1508 to ...

Colditz Castle, a forbidding medieval edifice near Leipzig, Germany, was supposed to be the Nazis' most escape-proof prison. Incorrigible Allied officers who had repeatedly escaped from other ...