Weikersheim Palace, Renaissance palace in Weikersheim, Germany.

Weikersheim Palace is a Renaissance-style castle in Weikersheim featuring elaborate interior rooms and sprawling gardens. The building displays the typical layout of a princely residence with wing structures, and the grounds are decorated with stone statues and ornamental flower beds.

The Lords of Hohenlohe appear in documents from 1153 as holders of a water castle at Weikersheim, a moated ring-wall fort with a bergfried beside the entrance from the town. Count Wolfgang II took possession in 1586 and from 1595 rebuilt the complex in Renaissance style, keeping the old bergfried, which later received a baroque hood; the work was largely finished by 1605. In 1634 troops of General Johann von Werth plundered the palace. Count Carl Ludwig, in residence from 1709, gave palace and garden their present form; Baden-Württemberg bought the building in 1967 for 5.5 million DM.

The palace's name and the Hohenlohe family line are tied to Weikersheim: Conrad of Weikersheim appears in a document in 1153, and the family soon took the name Hohenlohe from Hohlach Castle. Wolfgang II, who rebuilt the palace, kept an alchemical laboratory in a north annex, of which small remains survive. Today the palace is a museum used for concerts and weddings.

The palace stands at the edge of Weikersheim's old town, not on a hillside, and is reached on foot from the market square. The Renaissance rooms and the baroque garden are separate areas, so allow time for both. The garden's symmetrical paths and central fountain are best seen in daylight; the site is used for concerts and weddings in summer, when some rooms may be closed.

The Knight's Hall ceiling was painted by Balthasar Katzenberger of Würzburg with large hexagonal panels showing big-game hunts and small rectangular panels showing small-game hunts, matching the stucco figures on the walls. The hall's freestanding roof structure was built by Elias Gunzenhäuser.