Schloss Blutenburg
Blutenburg Castle—*Schloss Blutenburg*—takes its form from water: it is built between two arms of the River Würm, and its original purpose was practical as well as symbolic. The later ducal seat was laid out for Duke Albert III of Bavaria in 1438–39, replacing an older castle that had burned down during war, and the fortress appears in writing as early as 1432. The core you can trace back further still: a residential tower from the earlier moated castle of the 13th century was uncovered in 1981. Albert’s son, Duke Sigismund of Bavaria, began extensions in 1488, and he died here in 1501. That same campaign shaped the palace chapel: a late Gothic masterpiece whose stained-glass windows survive, alongside altarpieces painted in 1491 by Jan Polack. …
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