Friedrich von Zandt

Friedrich, Freiherr von Zandt (1785 – 5 March 1842) was a Prussian Hussar colonel and landowner who served as chamberlain to the King of Bavaria.

[2] Baron von Zandt and his wife owned the freehold property in central London's Knightsbridge district located between Brompton Road to the north-west and Walton Street to the south-east.

[4] In c. 1840–1841, Baron von Zandt acquired Schloss Seehof in Memmelsdorf, Bamberg, which had been built in the late 1600s as a summer residence and hunting lodge for Marquard Sebastian Schenk von Stauffenberg, Prince-bishop of Bamberg.

[6] Before von Zandt, the castle and garden had been owned by the Wittelsbach family who acquired it after secularization in 1803.

In 1975, the Free State of Bavaria acquired the property and restored it, and today is administered by the Bavarian Administration of State-Owned Palaces, Gardens and Lakes.