Confessions of a Castleholic

Every castle adventure needs a good base and during my recent trip to Franconia that base was the tiny town of Kleinheubach. That tiny town, however, boasts a pretty magnificent palace: Schloss Löwenstein . In addition to being one of the homes of the Rosenberg branch of the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim, the castle today is also a conference hotel and as such not open to the general park. You can, however, have a good look at it from the surrounding 16-hectares-large park and that's what yours truly did. The history of Schloss Löwenstein starts in the year 1721 when the Prince Dominic Marquard of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort purchased the lordship of Kleinheubach from the Counts of Erbach-Erbach. Almost immediately he commissioned Louis Remy de la Fosse, who had previously worked for the future King George I of Great Britain in Hanover and the Landgraves of Hesse in Darmstadt, to draw up plans for a Baroque residence.  Using the plans of Louis Remy de la Fosse the work...