The castle Hohenschwangau is located directly across from Neuschwanstein Castle. The present Hohenschwangau Castle was built from 1537 to 1547 into the partly preserved outer walls of the castle Schwanstein from the 14th century. The four-storey, 1833-1837 exterior and interior neo-Gothic shaped system of the main building with yellow facade paint has three round towers with polygonal structures, the gate is three-storey. The main building now houses a museum. The interior decoration from the Biedermeier period has been preserved unchanged. The rooms are still equipped with the...

The castle Hohenschwangau is located directly across from Neuschwanstein Castle. The present Hohenschwangau Castle was built from 1537 to 1547 into the partly preserved outer walls of the castle Schwanstein from the 14th century. The four-storey, 1833-1837 exterior and interior neo-Gothic shaped system of the main building with yellow facade paint has three round towers with polygonal structures, the gate is three-storey. The main building now houses a museum. The interior decoration from the Biedermeier period has been preserved unchanged. The rooms are still equipped with the furnishings from the restoration period. The rooms were painted according to designs by Moritz von Schwind and Ludwig Lindenschmit the Elder . The performers included both the latter, as well as his brother Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Elder . The more than ninety murals were executed in 1835-1836 and deal with themes from the history of the castle and the Schwangau and medieval heroic legends, namely the legend of the Swan Knight Loherangrîn in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Middle High German verse poem Parzival (the 1850 by Richard Wagner in his opera Lohengrin was processed), the Nibelungensageand the Edda . One of the frescoes takes up a local folklore, after the knight Christoph von Langenmantel Martin Luther 1518 brought to its protection from Augsburg to Hohenschwangau. In the described state, the castle has survived to this day. Some projects such as the construction of a drawbridge and several towers on the ring wall were no longer carried out; a high keep was begun in 1851, but demolished the following year, as he threatened to become expensive and King Max did not like it. In the valley floor on the north side below the castle, there is the Schwanseepark, originally belonging to the castle, which is now overgrown. The park was created according to plans by Peter Joseph Lenné . In the 19th century, the Grandhotel Alpenrose was built on the site of the Amtshaus built in 1786 , in which the Museum of Bavarian Kings was opened in 2011 by the Wittelsbacher Ausgleichsfonds . This shows about 160 original exhibits from the Middle Ages to the present. The focal point of the museum is the Hall of Kings, in which the builders of Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein, Max II and Ludwig II, are the subject.