General view
by JUSSOW, Heinrich Christoph, Photo
Reviving the epoch of superstition, magic, ghosts and wandering knights was the intention of Landgrave Wilhelm IX of Hessen-Kassel when he commissioned Heinrich Christoph Jussow to construct the L�wenburg in the garden of the Kassel Schloss in 1791. Despite being built as an artificial ruin, and thus continuing an early-18th-century tradition of erecting “ruined” relics of ancient Roman architecture, L�wenburg offers in its interior the usual comforts of a princely country house.
The photo shows the artificial ruin and castle of L�wenburg.
View the ground plan of Castle of L�wenburg, Kassel.