Schloss Montfort, located in Langenargen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, is a striking 19th-century palace on a peninsula in Lake Constance (Bodensee). Originally the site of the 14th-century Veste Burg Argen, built by the Counts of Montfort, it was destroyed in the Thirty Years’ War and fell into ruin, famously described by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff as “the most beautiful ruin” she’d seen. In 1858, King Wilhelm I of Württemberg purchased the site for 3,000 gulden, demolishing the ruins to build