Schloss Benzenhofen

Berg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Germany

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Schloss Benzenhofen is a historic neo‑historicist castle in the village of Berg, in the Ravensburg district of Baden‑Württemberg, southern Germany.

Built between 1898 and 1901 by the industrialist Otto Benze, it was designed as a private manor house in an ornate historicizing style, deliberately echoing medieval and Tudor‑inspired architecture with corner towers, turrets, and rich decorative stonework.

The two‑story main building stands on a rectangular plan with a prominent four‑story central tower and round flank towers, giving it a fairytale‑like, castle‑shaped silhouette in the Oberschwaben countryside.

Since the 1930s the same family has owned it continuously, maintaining and restoring the structure over decades so that it now ranks as a well‑preserved cultural monument and the region’s “Denkmal des Monats” in 2021, while the surrounding estate also includes a popular farm shop and café open to the public.