Hohenaschau Castle

Hohenaschau Palace is a palace, developed from a hilltop castle, in the municipality of Aschau im Chiemgau, near the Bavarian-Tyrolean border. It lies in the Hohenaschau district on a rocky ridge about 50 metres high.

For about seven centuries it was the seat of important noble dynasties and the centre of the lordship of Hohenaschau. Arising from the last third of the 12th century as a medieval ring castle on a rocky ridge in the Priental, the castle increasingly lost its significance in the 18th century and fell into decay. After the extinction of the last noble ruling family in the mid-19th century, the complex changed owners several times and was eventually acquired by the industrialist Theodor Freiherr von Cramer-Klett as a country estate for his family; it was above all his son who converted it into a palace. Today the palace is owned by the Federal Republic of Germany and is used as a holiday and recreation home for employees of the federal finance administration.

Machine-translated from “Schloss Hohenaschau” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Hohenaschau Castle ranks #4,587 of 8,764 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #364 of the 618 mapped in Germany. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 2,325 times in the last 60 days, more than 71% of the atlas. 4 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Salzburg, 54 km away. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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