Schloss Köngen, Cultural heritage château in Köngen, Germany

Schloss Köngen is a stone castle containing several preserved areas: a large hall named the Rittersaal, a chapel, a cellar, and an inner courtyard. These rooms allow visitors to experience the interior layout throughout the year.

Around 1382 Köngen passed by marriage to the Thumb von Neuburg family, who built a four-winged castle in 1392, extended six years later with a zwinger and moat. In 1463 it was split into a Vorderes and a Hinteres Schloss; Hans Friedrich Thumb rebuilt it in Renaissance style in 1538–39, and Heinrich Schickhardt altered it again in 1614 and 1620. Jakob Friedrich Weishaar bought it in 1825 and had the east and south wings demolished, the moat filled and the remainder rebuilt by Karl Marcell Heigelin as a classicist country house.

The Rittersaal, a wood-panelled hall on the north side of the north wing, holds portraits of European rulers such as Charlemagne, Frederick I Barbarossa and Julius Caesar, plus a painting of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I. Since the 2007 reopening, the hall, the castle chapel and the cellar have been open to the public, while most other rooms are used commercially.

The castle cellar, the chapel and the Rittersaal are open to the public; most other rooms are used for commercial purposes. The building stands in the centre of Köngen, in the Esslingen district. The Rittersaal is on the north side of the north wing, and its wood panelling holds portraits of rulers such as Charlemagne, Frederick I Barbarossa, Julius Caesar and Sultan Suleiman I.

The Rittersaal on the north side of the north wing is panelled in wood and hung with portraits of European rulers, among them Charlemagne, Frederick I Barbarossa and Julius Caesar, plus a painting of the Ottoman sultan Suleiman I. The hall, the castle chapel and the cellar are the rooms open to the public; most other interiors are used commercially.