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Empress Frederick — the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and mother of Kaiser Wilhelm II — built this English country house-style castle in the 1890s as her retirement home. The result is an incongruously British-looking manor set in a German landscape, filled with the Empress's personal art collection and surrounded by a golf course designed by her grandson. It became a hotel in 1954 and retains the atmosphere of a private estate. The connection to the British and German royal families gives it a unique historical resonance. 62 rooms and grounds that feel more Cotswolds than Hessen.
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