It was the summer residence of the Dukes of Meiningen, and is surrounded by a 160 hectares (1.6 square kilometres) noble park, which contains, among other objects of interest, a remarkable underground cavern, 500 ft.
This morganatic marriage annoyed the German Emperor Wilhelm II so much that he decided not visit the Schloss Altenstein after his reconstruction in 1889 by work of Georg II because of his aversion towards Helene.
Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein | Altenstein | Bernd Altenstein |
The species name altensteinii commemorates Altenstein, a 19th-century German chancellor and patron of science.
Karl Sigmund Franz Freiherr vom Stein zum Altenstein (1 October 1770, Schalkhausen near Ansbach - 14 May 1840, Berlin) was a Prussian politician and the first Prussian culture minister.