Löwenburg

The castle is very small. It looks bigger in the pictures online. located in the park and within walking distance of the Hercules monument and fountain. for some reason Google maps does not show the route to get to the park. use 1 tram it goes straight from the station to the park. it will take about 3 hours to visit the park

Visited while on family vacation. Totally amazing place with plenty of beautiful views and tracks to enjoy on the grounds. Definitely well worth a small hike up, now I haven't seen any track or sign for buggies or wheelchair users. As there are a good few stairs to claim up at the final part. But there might be an alternative road, that I'm not aware of.

It's a nice stop on route, but I wouldn't go out of my way. They do nice tours which are good.

Awesome place to visit. The best is enjoying the walk up through the forest.

So nice place for walking and enjoy free time with family I will be back summer time🫶🏻🤩😍

It is a nice historical place to hang out in Kassel. There is no entry fee to visit this place. Even though, you have to walk around 2km to reach hear from the nearest public transport this place is worth visiting. Normally a little busy on weekends.

Looks amazing. Would have liked to have done a guided tour. Maybe next time.

If u want to see a good ancient castle, then it's one of the best places to visit

Meticulous restoration of a 300+ yr old castle. The tour is well worth it.

Old castle in gorgeous park, worth visiting.
You can enter it and take pictures on top.
Price: 2€ per person
For kids (under 18) entrance is free.

Wonderful medieval castle. They also have guided tours to explore the inside.

Nice place to click photographs. You get opportunity to get inside and there is wash room too. You even get a good view Kassel

Set in the scenery of the Bergpark above Wilhelmshöhe Palace, the castle of Löwenburg, built between 1793 and 1801, was among the earliest mock-medieval »ruins« of Continental Europe. Even within the gesamtkunstwerk of Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe, it is an outstanding monument in its own right.

Landgrave Wilhelm IX (r. 1785–1821, later Elector Wilhelm I) commissioned his court architect, Heinrich Christoph Jussow (1754–1825), to create the building. The castle was intended to serve two purposes: on the one hand it provided the Landgrave with a maison de plaisance, on the other it was designed to represent the historical status of the House of Hesse, which had been in power since the Middle Ages.

Although the structure resembles a semi-ruined knight's castle from the outside, its interior conforms to the characteristic layout of a Baroque country palace. It also includes, besides the princely apartments, an armoury and a Neo-Gothic chapel. The castle's patron found his final resting place in the crypt beneath the chapel.

The castle's immediate surroundings were laid out to conform to the medieval theme: they included a deliberately old-world castle garden, a vineyard, a tiltyard, and a menagerie. The Wolves' Glen at the foot of the structure was originally intended to provide the setting for a monumental waterfall, which would have become a major element of the park's Romantic water features if it had been built. The project was abandoned early on, however.

The castle's artfully ruinous appearance became a sad fact when the keep and other parts of the structure were destroyed during WWII. Construction work is underway to restore the keep, reinforce the existing structure, and re-furnish the rooms with their original furniture and fittings. Once the work is complete, visitors will be able to experience Löwenburg as it looked in the time of Elector Wilhelm I.

An interesting castle, but one may get inside only with a tour, starts every hour

Beautiful place but was under renovation during my visit. I bet this place will be breathtaking once it is "finished".

Very cool castle in pretty impressive shape. Unfortunately, it's in renovations right now

This is amazing, beautiful and really peaceful place.

A great place. I also visited the Mittelaltermarkt festival, which is great. The only problem - cards aren't accepted in the shops of the market. It's a problem for people who don't carry cash, like me. But the castle itself is great.

Lovely place to stop on a long trip. Great for dogs.

Wonderful......breathtaking. ❤❤