Haga Park

Today the swedish Royal Court announced that Crown Princess Victoria and her future husband will live at Haga Palace in the future. A date for the move is not known yet. Haga Palace was also the Residence of her grandparents Prine Gustaf Adolf and Princess Sibylla, née Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. King Carl XVI,. Gustaf and his four older sister where all born there and the King spend his early childhood there but after his father died in a plance crash in early 1947 his mother moved with the children to the Royal palace in Stockholm. Since 1966 it was used by the swedish State to accomodate Guests.

The Gardenfront

The Temple of the Echo

The Pavilllon of Gustaf III.

The Copper tents

The Entrance Gates to the Royal Burial Ground

On the Royal Burial Ground was first buired in 1920 Crown Princess Margaretthe first wife of the future King Gustaf VI. Adolf. Since then more members of the Royal Family have been buried there among them King Gustaf VI. Adolf and Queen Louise, Prine Gustaf Adolf andPrincess Sibylla, Prince Carl and Princess Ingeborg and in 1997 Prince Bertil.

Kirchheim Castle

Some time ago i visited Kirchheim Castle in Swabia which belongs today to Fürstin Angela Fugger of Glött, widow of the last Fürst Joseph Ernst who died in 1981.
In 1551 Anton Fugger bought the property Kirchheim. After the Fugger-Estate was parted it went to Hans Fugger. In the years 1578-1585 the Castle of Kirchheim was build as summer residence for the Family. After it was ready it looked like the Escorial near Madrid. In the years 1580-1583 the Castle Chruch was build who is also the parish Church of Kirchheim. In the year 1585 the Zedern hall was constructed. it can today be visitied and there are often classical Concerts who take place in it. In 1878 the Castle was inherited by the Count Fugger of Glött (since 1913 Fürsten Fugger von Glött) whose main residence it is since 1886. In 1981 the last male member of the Family Fürst Joseph Ernst died and the Castle is now in the posession of his Widow, Fürstin Angela.