29 January 2011

Lichtenstein Castle

Not identified by name when it was posted at Pixdaus by Habub 3; the associated tags suggest it is somewhere in Germany.

Addendum:  Hat tips to Turi and A. Fischer for identifying this beautiful structure as Lichtenstein Castle.
Historically there has been a castle on the site since around 1200. It was twice destroyed, once in the Reichskriegs war of 1311 and again by the city-state of Reutlingen in 1381... The romantic Neo-Gothic design of the [current] castle was created by the architect Carl Alexander Heideloff [in 1840-42].

5 comments:

  1. Turi BeckerJanuary 29, 2011 at 3:26 PM

    Google Goggles claims it's Lichtenstein castle, which is in Germany.

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  2. ChristianJanuary 29, 2011 at 3:30 PM

    Turi, how did you find out so quickly (what kind of google search did you do?)

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  3. MinnesotastanJanuary 29, 2011 at 4:06 PM

    He mentioned Google Goggles, which is here -

    http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#text

    - and is new to me. I've used TinEye but it only finds identical photos, and that with only a modicum of success.

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  4. A. FischerJanuary 29, 2011 at 7:20 PM

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtenstein_Castle it definitely is...

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  5. PatrickJanuary 30, 2011 at 7:29 AM

    Been there a couple of times - it's a pretty little castle, even if very small (the photos make it look bigger than it is). Also note that it was built to look old, kind of like Neuschwanstein.

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