General view
by DEMMLER, Georg Adolph, Photo
A first high point in Romantic castle building was reached with the grand ducal Schloss in Schwerin, designed by Georg Adolph Demmler in 1840 and carried out by Friedrich August St�ler (1800-1865) in 1843-57. Drawing heavily on decorative features of French and Italian Renaissance models and with the silhouette of a Loire castle, Schwerin attained a new high point in the Romantic Schloss, which was only to be surpassed by the dream castles of King Ludwig II of Bavaria in the second half of the century.