The greatest medieval castles of Europe were built either in the 11th or 12th centuries. One must also understand that the term "medieval" is a purely relative term in view of the space-time continuum. We, for all that matters, could be in a deep primitive state in relation to possible civilizations in universes as a whole. But if we are speaking of civilizations at the outset of stone & iron age technologies, okay, the high medieval ages on this planet might have been its crux. Maybe. That being said, Burg Hohenzollern was the cradle of the like-named genetic line: the House, or Lords, of Hohenzollen who became the foundation of the later Prussian dynasty by intermarrying with the house of Mecklenburg in northeast Germany. It is somehow a paradox that the ancestral seat of Prussian kings should be in Swabia, in Germany's current southwest, nevertheless it was crown prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia who in 1819 decided to restore the family's original seat in the light of romantic tendencies then pervading the heart of Europe. Thus what the visitor can enjoy today is pretty much a product of this current. Only few castles of Germany can claim original medieval construction.
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