Neues Schloss

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Le château en bref

Overlooking the town of Tettnang with a view of Lake Constance, the Neues Schloss is one of the finest palaces in Upper Swabia and a high point of the region's Baroque. Count Anton III of Montfort began building it in 1712 to replace a residence that had become too modest, on the site of a 13th-century fortress burnt in 1633, according to specialist studies. Designed by the Benedictine Christoph Gessinger of Isny Abbey, the building forms a vast symmetrical four-winged quadrangle. A fire in 1753 interrupted the work, which was resumed from 1755 by Jakob Emele, a pupil of Dominikus Zimmermann. The House of Montfort died out in 1787, but the palace has remained almost intact, with the Bacchus Hall, the Princes' Room and the Green Cabinet, a Rococo masterpiece. Run today by the Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten of Baden-Württemberg, it houses a museum and a park laid out in 1977.