Burg Hohenzollern is a castle not far from the city of Tübingen, Germany. It belonged to and was built by the noble Prussian family of the Hohenzollern, who lived here from the early Middle Ages to the First World War. Originally built in the first part of the 11th century, it was completely destroyed after a ten-month siege in 1423 by the union of some Swabian cities. A second, larger castle was built from 1454 to 1461 and served as a refuge for the Hohenzollern family in times of war, even during the Thirty Years War. At the end of the 18th century, however, it began to be thought that the castle had lost its strategic importance and gradually fell into abandonment. This led to the collapse of several buildings. Today only the chapel remains of the original medieval building. The third reconstruction of the castle, as we see it today, was carried out between 1846 and 1867 by King Frederick William IV in a neo-Gothic style mainly for celebrating the prestige of the Hohenzollern family.
