Lion fountain
Lion fountain is a fountain in Schwangau, Ostallgäu, Bavaria. Lion fountain is situated nearby to the fountain Gänsemännchenbrunnen, as well as near Hohenschwangau Castle.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Hohenschwangau Castle and Neuschwanstein Castle.
Hohenschwangau Castle
Photo: Der Wolf im Wald, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Hohenschwangau Castle is a 19th-century palace in southern Germany. It was built by King Maximilian II of Bavaria, and was the childhood residence of his son, King Ludwig II of Bavaria.
Neuschwanstein Castle
Photo: Kyle Taylor, CC BY 2.0.
Neuschwanstein Castle is a 19th-century historicist palace on a rugged hill of the foothills of the Alps in the very south of Germany, near the border with Austria. Neuschwanstein Castle is situated 1 km east of Lion fountain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hohenschwangau and Schwangau.
Hohenschwangau
Village
Photo: SB68Manm, Public domain.
Hohenschwangau is a former village and now an urban district of the municipality of Schwangau, in the Ostallgäu district of Bavaria, Germany. It is located between Schloss Neuschwanstein and Schloss Hohenschwangau, and is visited by about two million people annually, where they start tours to the former royal palaces.
Lion fountain
- Type: Fountain
- Description: fountain in the Hohenschwangau castle garden in Germany
- Category: sculpture
- Location: Schwangau, Ostallgäu, Bavarian Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.55541° or 47° 33′ 20″ northLongitude
10.73561° or 10° 44′ 8″ eastOpen location code
8FVGHP4P+56OpenStreetMap ID
way 858244300OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=fountainWikidata ID
Q141044849
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In Other Languages
From French to German—“Lion fountain” goes by many names.
- French: “Fontaine des lions”
- German: “Löwenbrunnen”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Schloss Hohenschwangau (Kutsche) and Swan fountain.
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