3D print Hohenzollern Castle
A free, printable model of the castle on its hilltop, with the winding road and paths on the slopes around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Hohenzollern Castle
Hohenzollern Castle is the ancestral seat of the House of Hohenzollern, a formerly imperial dynasty. Mount Hohenzollern is an isolated promontory in the Swabian Jura, and the castle sits on top at 855 meters (2,805 ft) above sea level, south of Hechingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its name comes from Söller, meaning terrace, from the Latin solarium. The present building is the third castle on the site. The Swabian League of Cities besieged the first one, which was completely destroyed in 1423.
Built from 1454 to 1461, the second castle was larger and sturdier, and it sheltered the Catholic Swabian Hohenzollerns, including in the Thirty Years' War. After the last Austrian owner left in 1798 it began to fall into ruin, and only the Chapel of St. Michael was still usable by the start of the 19th century. The third castle was built as a family memorial by King Frederick William IV of Prussia, who had climbed the mountain in 1819 while traveling through southern Germany on his way to Italy.
The architect Friedrich August Stüler drew on English Gothic Revival architecture and on the châteaux of the Loire Valley for his design. The castle was completed on October 3, 1867, and the Eagle Gate with its drawbridge forms the entrance. None of the three German Emperors ever occupied it. Its collection includes the Crown of Wilhelm II and some personal effects of Frederick the Great. An earthquake on September 3, 1978 caused some turrets to collapse, and repairs lasted until the mid-1990s.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 20 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 25 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 32 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Pinnacles and pointed turrets
- Slim spires and pointed turret roofs rise all around the castle. Slow printing and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm help the thin tips come out clean, and Print friendly adapts the thinnest ones to the print scale.
- Battlements along the walls
- The curtain walls are topped with small crenellations and round corner towers. Full detail keeps every one, which suits a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. Hohenzollern Castle takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
Hohenzollern Castle is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Hohenzollern Castle STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. Hohenzollern Castle grows with the print: about 20 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
