Others call Christian Günther III, because there were two earlier Counts of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen by that name.
He also built very large so-called "domain" buildings in Allmenhausen and Sondershausen and the watchtower on the top of Mount Possen, in the Hainleite range.
The statues, waterfalls, fountains and flowers made it a renowned park for a long time.
[2] On 4 February 1760, Christian Günther III married his first cousin Charlotte Wilhelmine (1737–1777), a daughter of Prince Victor Frederick II of Anhalt-Bernburg.
They had the following children:[1] He died in 1794, at the age of 59, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Günther Frederick Charles I.