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Hohenzollern Castle
A storybook castle on a Swabian hilltop, the ancestral seat of the kings of Prussia.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 3 hours
- Address
- Burg Hohenzollern, 72379 HechingenDirections
- Getting There
- About an hour by car south of Stuttgart; by train to Hechingen, then a shuttle bus in season.
Why Go
The castle on the summit today, the third built there, went up in neo-Gothic style in the 1850s and 1860s for the Hohenzollerns, the family that gave Prussia its kings and Germany its emperors. Its towers crown a cone-shaped hill 855 meters high, and the rooms hold family treasures, including the Prussian royal crown.
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