Schloss Lautrach, Manor house in Lautrach, Germany

Schloss Lautrach, also called Neues Schloss Lautrach, is a long, three-story building with a mansard hipped roof and central projections topped by curved gables, set within a court garden. It was built as a provost's residence and hunting lodge and now serves as a conference centre with its own four-star hotel. No remains of the older castle survive.

The medieval seat of the Lauternach family, documented in 1164, passed to the Lords of Landau in 1417 and was rebuilt after being burned in the Thirty Years' War. In 1645 it came to the Prince-Abbey of Kempten, and after a fire in 1780 Prince-Abbot Honorius Roth von Schreckenstein had the New Palace built from 1781 to 1783 as a provost's residence and hunting lodge. In 1805 it was auctioned to Count Jean-Luis Firmas-Perier, and from 1838 the priest Josef Deybach ran a girls' school and later a boys' institute there.

After 1838 the priest Josef Deybach and his sister ran a boarding school for daughters of the upper classes here, and from 1840 a boys' institute as well; both became known far beyond the region. The Deybach inheritance passed in 1889 to the Wagnerschen Anstalten of Dillingen, today the Regens-Wagner-Stiftung, which still owns the institute building on the old castle grounds.

The property operates as an event venue and welcomes groups for meetings and celebrations throughout the year. Advance contact with the management is recommended to confirm availability and discuss your specific needs.

Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, inventor of the gyrocompass, bought the New Palace in 1921 and held "faculty meetings" there with scientists he selected, including Albert Einstein, Karl von Frisch, Wilhelm Wien and Arnold Sommerfeld. He bequeathed the building to Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1931.