Top 20 Castles around Bad Rodach

For centuries, Callenberg Castle has been owned and used by the ducal family of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. For the ducal family, it remains a link between the past and the present. The castle is open from April to October: Thursday to Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; in November and December: Thursday to Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is €8.

It is understandable that Callenberg Castle became the main residence, if only because of the magical surroundings.

In 1969, the then lord of the castle, Alram Graf zu Ortenburg, created a 50-hectare wildlife park in the English landscape garden created in the 19th century. The park was officially opened on May 16, 1970.

Callenberg Castle - a hunting lodge and summer palace, most recently the long-standing main residence of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in Coburg - is an important architectural monument due to its history and its neo-Gothic architectural style. It stands on a wooded hill in the Coburg district of Beiersdorf, in the northwest, six kilometers from the city center. The castle has housed the Ducal Art Collection of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha since 1998 and the German Shooting Museum since 2004, and is one of the city's attractions. Source: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Callenberg

A beautiful place in the middle of the city. The concerts in the Coburg summer take place there in a special setting.

In 1543, Duke Johann Ernst of Saxony decided to move his court from the Veste Coburg down into the city and chose the site of the dissolved Franciscan monastery, along which the city wall ran to the east. The monastery was in the area of the former middle courtyard. Recent research attributes the architectural design to the Saxon architect Nikolaus Gromann.[1] The building shows clear stylistic parallels with the work of Gromann, who may also have been close to the building project in organizational terms as the appointed court architect of Johann Ernst's half-brother, Elector Johann Friedrich. The complex was built until around 1547 under the construction management of Caspar Vischer. A complex was created around two square courtyards, which could be entered from the south via Steingasse.[2] The buildings of the first courtyard with the stair tower, the corner bay window and the dormer windows from this period are still preserved.[3] Between the courtyards was the three-storey princely building, which was accessed via another large stair tower on the north side and had a large hall and a dining room. The palace chapel and other living quarters were located around the second courtyard on the east side, the kitchen on an irregular floor plan to the north and other subordinate rooms to the west. This complex can still be seen with various subordinate extensions on Bieler's floor plan from 1679. It is unclear whether the third courtyard with the stables had already begun in 1543. Only paid craftsmen were employed for the construction and not, as was usual at the time, serf laborers. This special feature is said to have been the reason for the visit of Emperor Charles V in 1547. Charles is said to have given the newly occupied complex the name Ehrenburg on this occasion. The new city palace was inhabited as the residence of a ruling duke until the death of Johann Ernst in 1553 and was then only used extensively.

The Coburg Castle Square is one of the most remarkable square designs in Bavaria. The spacious square is designed as a forecourt to Ehrenburg Castle and is located in the center of the former royal residence of Coburg. The Castle Square was created under Duke Ernst I from 1825 with the demolition of the eastern houses of Grafengasse and the subsequent demolition of the old commercial and auxiliary buildings of the castle, which were located to the north of it, in 1835. It was created in its current design as a representative square by 1849 in the historical and classicist style with the participation of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Peter Joseph Lenné. Until the beginning of the First World War, the III. Battalion of the 6th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 95, stationed in Coburg, used the Castle Square for its parades. A military band played on Sunday afternoons.[1] In the 1920s, the Castle Square was often a meeting place for demonstrators, such as on Bloody Saturday in Coburg. Today, cars can be parked on the Schlossplatz in the evenings during performances at the State Theater. It is also used as an event space, for example for open-air concerts. The first plans for an underground car park on the Schlossplatz were made in 1977, but in 1988 the highest building authority in Munich did not approve it for cost and monument protection reasons. Source: Wikipedia

However, with secularization, the Langheim monastery office and the Tambach Castle monastery office were dissolved. Tambach Castle fell to the Bavarian royal house in 1803 and to the House of Ortenburg in 1806 in exchange for the County of Ortenburg in Lower Bavaria. Tambach Castle only acquired its current appearance at the beginning of the 20th century. The original fountains by the Bamberg sculptor Michael Trautmann (1742-1809) were removed when the Protestant Counts of Ortenburg moved in and distributed to the communities of Neuendorf and Hergramsdorf. The current fountain in the castle courtyard was built at the beginning of the 20th century. The private castle church in the castle is open to the public and can be accessed from the castle courtyard. The church can be booked for weddings and baptisms. Source: https://www.wildpark-tambach.de/wildpark-schloss-tambach/schloss-tambach