Top 20 Castles around Lautertal

Beautifully restored clinker building with sandstone elements.

A beautiful place in the middle of the city. The concerts in the Coburg summer take place there in a special setting.

In 1543, Duke Johann Ernst of Saxony decided to move his court from the Veste Coburg down into the city and chose the site of the dissolved Franciscan monastery, along which the city wall ran to the east. The monastery was in the area of the former middle courtyard. Recent research attributes the architectural design to the Saxon architect Nikolaus Gromann.[1] The building shows clear stylistic parallels with the work of Gromann, who may also have been close to the building project in organizational terms as the appointed court architect of Johann Ernst's half-brother, Elector Johann Friedrich. The complex was built until around 1547 under the construction management of Caspar Vischer. A complex was created around two square courtyards, which could be entered from the south via Steingasse.[2] The buildings of the first courtyard with the stair tower, the corner bay window and the dormer windows from this period are still preserved.[3] Between the courtyards was the three-storey princely building, which was accessed via another large stair tower on the north side and had a large hall and a dining room. The palace chapel and other living quarters were located around the second courtyard on the east side, the kitchen on an irregular floor plan to the north and other subordinate rooms to the west. This complex can still be seen with various subordinate extensions on Bieler's floor plan from 1679. It is unclear whether the third courtyard with the stables had already begun in 1543. Only paid craftsmen were employed for the construction and not, as was usual at the time, serf laborers. This special feature is said to have been the reason for the visit of Emperor Charles V in 1547. Charles is said to have given the newly occupied complex the name Ehrenburg on this occasion. The new city palace was inhabited as the residence of a ruling duke until the death of Johann Ernst in 1553 and was then only used extensively.

The Coburg Castle Square is one of the most remarkable square designs in Bavaria. The spacious square is designed as a forecourt to Ehrenburg Castle and is located in the center of the former royal residence of Coburg. The Castle Square was created under Duke Ernst I from 1825 with the demolition of the eastern houses of Grafengasse and the subsequent demolition of the old commercial and auxiliary buildings of the castle, which were located to the north of it, in 1835. It was created in its current design as a representative square by 1849 in the historical and classicist style with the participation of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Peter Joseph Lenné. Until the beginning of the First World War, the III. Battalion of the 6th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 95, stationed in Coburg, used the Castle Square for its parades. A military band played on Sunday afternoons.[1] In the 1920s, the Castle Square was often a meeting place for demonstrators, such as on Bloody Saturday in Coburg. Today, cars can be parked on the Schlossplatz in the evenings during performances at the State Theater. It is also used as an event space, for example for open-air concerts. The first plans for an underground car park on the Schlossplatz were made in 1977, but in 1988 the highest building authority in Munich did not approve it for cost and monument protection reasons. Source: Wikipedia

The old Ketschendorf Castle was built in 1803 as a summer palace in the Empire style. After the Duke's death in 1806, it remained Auguste's widow's residence. In 1868 the partially dilapidated castle was demolished and rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style. All four sides are flanked by octagonal, crenellated corner towers. Ketschendorf Castle has been owned by the Coburg company Kaeser Kompressoren since 2013.

Right in the heart of the former residential city of Coburg, the Schlossplatz is one of the most remarkable squares in Bavaria. The representative square with a view of the mighty Ehrenburg Castle serves as a great setting for concerts in the open air, and there is also a lot of hustle and bustle around the flower garden rondel at the Castle Square Festival. Ehrenburg Palace was built as early as the 16th century, incorporating the structure of the former Franciscan monastery. After the facade of the already imposing palace was redesigned in a magnificent neo-Gothic style in 1816, the palace square was planned in the years that followed.

Ehrenburg Castle Ehrenburg Castle was built in the 16th century as a representative city residence under the Coburg dukes. In 1543, Johann Ernst of Saxe-Coburg commissioned the building, which was intended to replace an abolished Franciscan monastery. Just five years later, the Duke was able to move his court from the fortress on the castle hill down to the city. Emperor Charles V is said to have given the completed three-wing complex the name “Ehrenburg” because the construction was carried out without compulsory labor.

A beautiful castle. If you walk from the fortress through the courtyard garden you can't miss it, next to it is the footpath to the old town with the market square and the famous Coburg sausages. Definitely worth seeing.