Schloss Urach, Medieval residential palace in Bad Urach, Germany.

Schloss Urach in Bad Urach consists of a gate tower, the Professorengebäude, the Torwartgebäude and the main castle, a rectangular building with a gabled roof from around 1400. It has a later western annex with a hipped roof, a tower-like rectangular annex and the large south tower. Inside is the Golden Hall, a flat-ceilinged late Renaissance room lit on three sides and divided by columns with Corinthian capitals.

Around 1400, Count Eberhard III of Württemberg and his Milanese wife Antonia Visconti had the present hall building erected as an extension of an 11th-century water castle, modeled on Stuttgart's Altes Schloss. In 1442 Ludwig I made Urach his residence. For Eberhard I's 1474 wedding to Barbara Gonzaga, the ground-floor Hofstube received a four-aisled vault. After 1482 the court moved to Stuttgart and the castle served as a hunting lodge.

The Golden Hall takes its name from the gilding on its walls and Corinthian columns. The flat-ceiled room is lit from three sides and divided by columns with Corinthian capitals. Around 1600 the castle received a partial new interior in rich Late Renaissance forms, and the hall is counted among the important panelled state rooms of that period in Germany.

Schloss Urach and its museum closed on 18 September 2022 for extensive renovation and are scheduled to reopen on 24 July 2026. Until then the interior, including the Golden Hall, cannot be visited, so check the current status before planning a trip. The castle is managed by Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten Baden-Württemberg.

The collection of sleighs housed here spans several centuries and shows how nobility traveled during winter months in earlier times. These vehicles are so rare that few other castles in Europe hold comparable collections.