The New Castle (''Neues Schloss'') is a nineteenth century palace in

Hechingen Hechingen ( Swabian: ''Hächenga'') is a town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated about south of the state capital of Stuttgart and north of Lake Constance and the Swiss border. Geography The town lies at the foot of t ...

in Germany. It served as the city residence for princes of the

House of Hohenzollern-Hechingen A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air cond ...

History

The first building on the site was a Renaissance-style residence built by Eitel Frederick IV, Count of Hohenzollern in the late 16th century. Apart from a few minor remnants, it was demolished by Friedrich Hermann Otto at the start of the 19th century to make way for the three-wing present structure, built between 1818 and 1819, designed by Rudolf Burnitz and funded by French reparations from the

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. Burnitz was a pupil of

Friedrich Weinbrenner Friedrich Weinbrenner (24 November 1766 – 1 March 1826) was a German architect and city planner admired for his mastery of classical style. Birth and education Weinbrenner was born in Karlsruhe, and began his career apprenticed to his father, ...

, a leading neo-classical architect in the Grand Duchy of Baden. The castle remained unfinished, since the principality was in debt and the funds for its construction ran out.

Bibliography

* Friedrich Hossfeld und Hans Vogel: ''Die Kunstdenkmäler Hohenzollerns, Bd. 1: Kreis Hechingen''. Holzinger, Hechingen 1939, S. 186 ff. * Wulf Schirmer (Hrsg.): ''Friedrich Weinbrenner und die Weinbrenner-Schule, Bd. 1: Die barocke Stadtplanung und die ersten klassizistischen Entwürfe Weinbrenners''. Müller, Karlsruhe 1996, (zugl. Dissertation, Universität Karlsruhe 1990). {{Castles in Zollernalbkreis