|
 In
its picturesque setting on the edge of the Wolf’s Gorge amid the
slopes of Wilhelmshöhe, the Löwenburg, or ”Lions’ Castle”,
seems from the outside to be the stout fortress of a medieval
knight. Inside, however, its baroque living quarters would
accommodate a prince and his courtly entourage. Built at the end of
the 18th
century by Landgrave Wilhelm IX, at a time of turbulent social
change, the ruinous Löwenburg not only evokes sieges, battering
rams and rampart resistance, but also seeks, by conveying a sense of
venerable age, to demonstrate the dynasty’s long history and its
right to rule in Hesse-Kassel.
Next
to the Weapons Room, with its display of 16th-
and 17th-century
arms and armour, and the castle chapel with the founder’s tomb,
visitors have access to major sections of the princely quarters in
the Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Houses, some furnished as such and
others used for museum purposes. |
