Schloss Lieser, Autograph Collection by Marriott

The story of Schloss Lieser began around 1885 when the castle was built by Eduard Puricelli, a successful entrepreneur, under the architecture of Heinrich Theodor Schmidt. Soon after moving in, Eduard started cultivating vineyards on the surrounding hills to produce and bottle his own wines. The villa was slightly elevated to prevent the ground floor, where the bottling happened, from flooding when the river would burst its banks. Maria Puricelli was the sole heiress of the familys possessions when her father died. She married the handsome, wealthy Prussian politician Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer-Lieser, who was part of the cabinet of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor and King of Prussia. At the turn of the century, Maria and Clemens moved into the villa and renovated it into the beautiful castle it is today. Although the original architect had chosen a Neo-Renaissance style and based his design on the Italian Palladian villas of the 16th and 17th centuries, the new addi...