Heidelberg Old Town And Castle Jigsaw Puzzle Game

Neuschwanstein Palace

This beautiful nineteenth-century palace is located on a steep hill above the village of Hohenschwangau in southwest Bavaria, Germany was commissioned by Ludwig II as a retreat and as a homage to Richard Wagner (a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas). In the nineteenth century, many castles were constructed or reconstructed, often with significant changes to make them more picturesque. The building design was drafted by the stage designer Christian Jank and realized by the architect Eduard Riedel. The foundation stone for the palace was laid on September 5, 1869. The castle was erected as a conventional brick construction and later encased in various types of rock. It is furnished, as you can see in this fun new puzzle, with numerous towers, ornamental turrets, gables, balconies, pinnacles and sculptures. If it looks familiar it's because it served as a model for the Sleeping Beauty Castle of Disneyland. Neuschwanstein is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe with 1.3 million visitors per year . So click the start button and let's visit it together in this new jigsaw puzzle.

Butron Castle

Located in Gatika, in the province of Biscay, in northern Spain - Butrón Castle has a fairy-tale look about it inspired by Bavarian castles. It was first built in the Middle Ages, and it owes its present appearance to an almost complete rebuilding begun by Francisco de Cubas in 1878. The building is surrounded by a park which includes palms and exotic plants.

Schwerin Castle

Located in the city of Schwerin (Germany), Schwerin Castle - the beautiful castle feature in this puzzle, is situated on an island on lake Schwerin (an approximately 61 square kilometres and 52 meter depth). The palace was the home of the dukes and grand dukes of Mecklenburg and Mecklenburg-Schwerin for hundreds of years. The first records of a castle at this location date from AD 973. Major parts of the current palace were built between 1845 and 1857, as a cooperation of the renowned history architects Friedrich August Stüler, Gottfried Semper, Ernst Friedrich Zwirner and Georg Adolf Demmler. A third of the palace was destroyed in 1913 by a fire but it was reconstructed. After the abdication of the Grand Duke in 1918 the castle became a musesum and in 1948 the seate of the state parliament. Starting in the 1950 it has been a college for kindergarten teachers, a museum and since 1990 is has once again been a the seat of he state assembly of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Auzers Castle

The castel in Auzers was built in 1364 during the "One Hundred Year" war. Solve this fun puzzle and put the castle back togheter.

Corvin Castle

Also known as Hunyadi Castle or Hunedoara Castle it's a Gothic-Renaissance castle in Hunedoara, Romania. Corvin Castle was laid out in 1446, when construction began at the orders of John Hunyadi ( Romanian: Iancu or Ioan de Hunedoara) who wanted to transform the former keep built by Charles I of Hungary. Built in a Renaissance-Gothic style and constructed over the site of an older fortification on a rock above the small Zlaști River, the castle is a large and imposing structure with tall towers, bastions, an inner courtyard, diversely coloured roofs, and myriads of windows and balconies adorned with stone carvings.

Leeds Castle

Leeds Castle is located 8 km south-east of Maidstone, Kent, England, dates back to 1119. In 1278 the castle came into the hands of King Edward I, for whom it became a favorite residence. The castle seen today dates mostly from the 19th century and is built on islands in a lake formed by the River Len to the east of the village of Leeds.

Nesvizh Castle

In this new puzzle we are visting Nesvizh Castle, a residential castle of the Radziwiłł family in Niasviž, Belarus. The foundation stone of Nesvizh Palace was laid in 1584 and it was rebuilt many times. In the late 19th century Nesvizh Palace was restored by the Radziwil family who also designed one of largest landscape gardens in Europe on the estate. In 1994 the estate was designated the national historical and cultural reserve and in 2006 it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Hluboka Castle And Park

Located in Hluboká nad Vltavou, the Hluboká Castle is considered one of the most beautiful castles in the Czech Republic. A Gothic castle was built on the same site in the second half of the 13th century and it was rebuilt several times. It reached its current appearance during the 19th century, when Johann Adolf II von Schwarzenberg ordered the reconstruction of the castle in the romantic style of England's Windsor Castle. Architects Franz Beer and F. Deworetzky built a the Romantic Neo-Gothic chateau featured in this puzzle from 1841 to 1871, and surrounded it by a 1.9-square-kilometre English park. Click start and join us on the green grass of the park while you solve today's new jigsaw. Have fun!

Orebro Castle in Sweden

This impresive medieval castle is located in Örebro Narke, Sweden. The oldest part of the castle, a defence tower, was erected in the latter half of the 13th century and it was used to defend and control the bridge on the Svartan river (the castle lies on an island on the river). The name of Örebro comes from the small stones (called "ör" in Swedish), that the near by river transports. For the last two hundred years it has been the residence of the county governor but some parts are available to the public. Ready to visit this castle? Just press start, put it back together piece by piece and take in the view.

Egeskov Castle

Located near Kværndrup, in the south of the island of Funen, Denmark, Egeskov Castle is Europe's best preserved Renaissance water castle (a castle or stately home whose site is entirely surrounded by water-filled moats). The castle structure was erected by Frands Brockenhuus in 1554. The castle consists of two long buildings connected by a thick double wall, allowing defenders to abandon one house and continue fighting from the other. The architecture includes depressed and round-arched windows, round-arched blank arcading within the gables, and a double string course between the high cellar and the ground floor. Surrounding the castle is an old park divided into a number of gardens featuring fountains, a gravel path and topiary figures.

Jerusalem Gate

The stone gate in this puzzle, called the Jerusalem Gate or "lower gate", is one of the entrances to the medieval stronghold in Büdingen (a town in the Wetteraukreis, in Hesse, Germany). Since 1442 the masters of Büdingen have been known as Grafen of Isenburg-Büdingen. After a local war, Graf Ludwig II built an enormous new defensive wall with 22 towers around the old stronghold between 1480 and 1510. These walls are still nearly complete and they are one of the most important medieval strongholds in Germany.

Moritzburg Castle

This beautiful piece of architecture is a Baroque palace in Moritzburg, in the German state of Saxony, about 13 kilometers northwest of the Saxon capital, Dresden. The castle has four round towers and lies on a artificial island. The castle is named after Duke Moritz of Saxony, who had a hunting lodge built there between 1542 and 1546.