DE-4397921 Hohenzollern Castle in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Hohenzollern Castle is the ancestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern. The third of three castles on the site, it is located atop Berg Hohenzollern, a 234 m (768 ft) bluff rising above the towns of Hechingen and Bisingen in the foothills of the Swabian Alps of central Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Hohenzollern Castle is a popular tourist destination. It receives over 300,000 visitors per year, making it one of the most visited castles in Germany.

The current castle was built between 1846 and 1867 as a family memorial by Hohenzollern scion of King Frederick William IV of Prussia. The architect designing the castle based the design on English Gothic Revival architecture and the Châteaux of the Loire Valley. No member of the Hohenzollern family was in permanent or regular residence when it was completed and none of the three Deutsche Kaiser of the late 19th and early 20th century German Empire ever occupied the castle.

This postcard came from Thomas (29 July 2015) Postcrossing.