List of castles and palaces in Hessen

Castles and palaces in Hessen

There is a large number of palaces and castles in the German state of Hesse . These buildings, some of which can look back on a 1000-year or even longer history, from the beginning of the early Middle Ages to modern times , were the scene of historical events and the workplaces of well-known personalities and are often still impressive structures today.

description

Regional peculiarities exist in Hesse particularly in the customs castles on the Rhine and the numerous noble residences around the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt am Main . In the Hessian low mountain range , the predominant castle form was the hill or spur castle . Moated castles or lowland castles are often heavily overbuilt due to their topographical conditions, mostly in locality, or their substance is over-shaped in later times.

Over time, the majority of the castles came into the possession of larger sovereigns, and some were converted into palaces. Important palace buildings in Hesse go back to the larger princely houses of Hessen-Kassel , Hessen-Darmstadt and Nassau . In Südhessen some come Electoral Mainz and Palatine Castle and Castle Building added. Other palaces and castles that go back to the clergy come from the Abbey of Fulda (later diocese) and the Abbey of Hersfeld .

The need for representation of smaller sovereigns such as the Counts of Erbach , Counts of Hanau , Counts of Solms , Counts of Isenburg or Counts and Princes of Waldeck and their branch lines has resulted in attractive residences in many small towns in Hesse. Even the lower nobility, for example the Lords of Buchenau or the Lords of Hutten , built handsome residences, which in many villages still determine the appearance of the village and represent centers of the communities.

Many castles and palaces are now owned by the administration of the State Palaces and Gardens of Hesse , are inhabited or are privately owned. For a large part of the castle ruins there are local castle associations that take care of the maintenance and security of the structures and make them accessible to the public.

That list includes early medieval are hill forts , tower hill castles , festivals homes and apartment towers listed, as well as in the Middle Ages incurred estates , mansions or the development of cities emerged forts and stately palaces . Both preserved and destroyed buildings ( ruins ) are listed, as well as buildings that have completely disappeared or have disappeared (such as castle stables or systems only preserved as ground monuments ), insofar as they are mentioned in the relevant literature.

Explanation of the list

The list is divided into the corresponding current districts of the State of Hesse. The number of items listed for the structures are counted in the inventory, the number of items is named. Structures without an article are visible as a red link , but then the most important data are listed in the corresponding line.

Location : Indicates in which municipality the building is or was or in which district it is located.

Type : Indicates the respective building type: For castles mostly according to their geographical allocation; If possible, castles are classified according to their type; z. B. in residential castle, hunting lodge, palace.

Date of origin : Shows (if known) the year of construction. For castles, it is usually only possible to first mention them in documents or to date them according to the architectural style in certain periods of time.

State of preservation and current use : Describes the current status of the building. A castle is called " abandoned " if there are no more remains - Burgstall if there are no more remains above ground. It is noted if the building is privately owned or not accessible.

Image : If possible, shows an appropriate photo, picture or drawing of the building, ruin or castle stables. Often only subsequent buildings need to be documented.

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Darmstadt administrative district (South Hesse)

Darmstadt

Map with all coordinates of the city of Darmstadt : OSM

Existing on: November 15, 2016 | 12 in 11 items

Surname	Coordinates	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Alexander Palace	49 ° 52 ′ 24 ″ N, 8 ° 39 ′ 1 ″ E	Darmstadt	City Palace	1804	Destroyed in 1944, demolished
Old palace	49 ° 52 ′ 19 ″ N, 8 ° 39 ′ 5 ″ E	Darmstadt	City Palace	1802-1804	Comprehensively restored by Georg Moller from 1839–1842 , destroyed in 1944, today the Luisencenter is located there
Darmstadt Residence Palace	49 ° 52 ′ 25 ″ N, 8 ° 39 ′ 19 ″ E	Darmstadt	Residenzschloss , Landgrave / Grand Ducal residence of Hesse-Darmstadt	Middle of the 13th century, numerous modifications	Rebuilt after destruction in 1944, used by parts of the TU Darmstadt , university and state library , castle museum , branch of the LfD Hessen in bell building
Dianaburg	49 ° 55 ′ 22 "N, 8 ° 41 ′ 56" E	Darmstadt-Arheilgen	Jagdschlösschen	1765	demolished around 1808, from 1836 only small. pavilion
Kranichstein hunting lodge	49 ° 54 ′ 1 ″ N, 8 ° 41 ′ 51 ″ E	Darmstadt-Kranichstein	Hunting lodge	1578	Hunting Museum and Hotel
Louisburg Griesheim Hunting Lodge (Ludwigsburg, Griesheimer Haus)	49 ° 51 ′ 6 ″ N, 8 ° 36 ′ 25 ″ E	Darmstadt-West	Hunting lodge	1713	2. New building demolished in 1774
New palace	49 ° 52 ′ 7 "N, 8 ° 39 ′ 4" E	Darmstadt	Residenzschloss, grand ducal city residence of Hesse-Darmstadt of Ludwig IV and his successor Ernst Ludwig , first playground of Darmstadt Art Nouveau	1864/1865	Destroyed in 1944, finally demolished in 1955
Orangery	49 ° 51 ′ 29 "N, 8 ° 39 ′ 11" E	Darmstadt Bessungen	lock	1719-1721	Concerts and meetings, restaurant
Rosenhöhe Palace	49 ° 52 ′ 31 "N, 8 ° 40 ′ 35" E	Darmstadt	lock	1894	Destroyed in 1944 and resigned, only one archway get
Prince Carl Palais	49 ° 51 ′ 55 "N, 8 ° 39 ′ 12" E	Darmstadt Bessungen	Castle for Karl von Hessen-Darmstadt by Georg Moller	1835	State Insurance Company
Prince Emil Schlösschen	49 ° 51 ′ 37 ″ N, 8 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ E	Darmstadt Bessungen	lock	1775-1778	Preserved garden palace in a U-shaped complex in a restored park landscape, used as a Bessunger neighborhood house
→ Prinz-Georg-Palais	49 ° 52 ′ 47 "N, 8 ° 39 ′ 12" E	Darmstadt	Castle for Landgrave Ernst Ludwig , it was named by Prince Georg Wilhelm (summer residence from the 2nd half of the 18th century)	1710	simple two-storey building, porcelain collection

Frankfurt am Main

Status on: October 20, 2019 | 24 in 23 items

Surname	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Old Praunheim Castle	Frankfurt-Praunheim	Königshof , later a local castle	unknown	Seat of the knights von Praunheim , Younger Line, 1911 last Torrest to Burg Kronberg sold
Bachberg Castle	Frankfurt-Preungesheim	Moth (castle)	12th Century	Parts of the castle hill are visible
Bolongaro Palace	Frankfurt-Höchst	City Palace	1772-1774	municipal property, administration, registry office, exhibitions, concerts
Bonames Castle	Frankfurt-Bonames	Moated castle	Early 13th century	Not preserved, location marked in the pavement
Bornburg (Glauburger Hof, Günthersburg) (Günthersburgpalais)	Frankfurt-Bornheim	Moated castle, fortified courtyard, part of the fortifications of Frankfurt, after laying down in 1847, new construction of the Günthersburgpalais from 1855	Probably 10th century, documented mention 1189 (new building as Rothschild ́s Palais 1855)	Moated castle and palace without remains, only the park and ancillary building (orangery from the 19th century) have been preserved
Fleschenburg	Frankfurt-Oberrad	Wasserburg, fortified courtyard	13th Century	Not received
House Fürsteneck	Frankfurt old town	Patrician seat	Mid-14th century	Destroyed in 1944, ruins completely removed during and after the Second World War
Goldstein castle	Frankfurt-Goldstein	Moated castle	13th Century	Only park received
→ Grüneburg	Frankfurt-Westend	Rothschild family castle	1837, previously courtyard	Destroyed in 1944
Heddernheimer Schloss (New Palace)	Frankfurt-Heddernheim	Castle of the von Riedt family	1740	Received, apartments
Highest castle	Frankfurt-Höchst	Castle, Mainz official residence	14th Century	Preserved, owned by the German Foundation for Monument Protection
Holzhausenschlösschen (also Holzhausen-Oede )	Frankfurt-Nordend	Moated castle of the von Holzhausen family	Late medieval (expansion mentioned in 1540), today's baroque palace from 1729	Receive
Klettenburg / Augustusburg	Frankfurt-Praunheim	Castle seat of the Knights of Praunheim , later Counts of Solms-Rödelheim	Documented in 1194	Canceled 1760–1791
Königspfalz Frankfurt (historically incorrect also Kaiserpfalz Frankfurt )	Frankfurt am Main ( Cathedral Hill )	Palatinate (base of the Carolingian and Ottonian kings and emperors)	approx. 9th century (probably replaced the royal court of the Merovingians in the 7th century)	Decreased in importance from the 11th century, probably overbuilt after the construction of the Saalhof , remains of the wall are visible today
Lersner's Palace (Charlottenburg)	Frankfurt-Nieder-Erlenbach	Manor house of the 17th / 18th centuries Century in place of an older castle	First mentioned in 1275/85	Residential complex
Reichenbach-Lessonitz Palace	Frankfurt am Main	Palace	1891/92	Burned out by bombs in 1944 and later demolished, today the location of the Deutsche Bank high-rise
Palais Thurn and Taxis	Frankfurt am Main	Palais built by Robert de Cotte on behalf of the Imperial Heir General Postmaster Prince Anselm Franz von Thurn und Taxis , u. a. 1816 to 1866 conference center of the Bundestag of the German Confederation	1731 to 1739	Demolished in 1951, the portal structures were rebuilt using the previously secured sandstone parts. 2004 to 2009 rebuilding with a slightly different floor plan
Philippseck Castle	Frankfurt-Heddernheim	Castle, knight seat on the foundation walls of a Roman villa	1584	Not preserved, destroyed in the Thirty Years War.
Saalhof	Frankfurt old town	Stadtburg , Staufer Reichsburg	12th Century	Corner tower demolished in 1840, minor damage in the Second World War, main hall, corner tower and chapel largely preserved
Schelmenburg	Frankfurt-Bergen-Enkheim	Moated castle , later Schlösschen the rogue of Bergen	12th Century	Only castle buildings from 1700 have survived
Schönhof	Frankfurt-Bockenheim	Wasserburg , later manor, later freiadliges Hofgut	unknown, new building in 1819	Only mansion and relocated residential buildings rebuilt after 1945, restored cultural monument with restaurant and music center
Solms Castle / Rödelheim Castle	Frankfurt-Rödelheim	Moated castle, later residential palace of the Counts of Solms-Rödelheim	1150 (castle), 1802 (castle)	Destroyed in 1944, ruins completely removed after the Second World War (until 1955)
Stalburger Oede	Frankfurt-Nordend	Wasserburg, aristocratic seat of the Stalburger	Wasserburg 15./16. Century, Baroque transformation in 1734	Only modern mansion preserved, today Stalburg Theater
Ulrichstein	Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen	Customs or fortress of Hagen-Munzenberg or Hanau , later an integrated tower in Frankfurt city fortifications	uncertain, first mentioned in the 14th century	Badly damaged in 1635, ruin demolished in 1930, location marked in the ground

City of Offenbach

Map with all coordinates of the city Offenbach : OSM

Existing on: December 14, 2010 | 3

Surname	Coordinates	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Büsing Palais	50 ° 6 ′ 28 "N, 8 ° 45 ′ 37" E	Offenbach am Main	Manor house, later city palace	1773, extension of the palace in 1899	Conference center and registry office
Isenburg Castle	50 ° 6 ′ 28 "N, 8 ° 45 ′ 54" E	Offenbach am Main	Castle, Isenburg residence	1559, probably a medieval predecessor	Preserved, used by the Offenbach am Main University of Design
Rumpenheim Castle	50 ° 7 ′ 59 ″ N, 8 ° 48 ′ 6 ″ E	Offenbach-Rumpenheim	Castle of the Landgraves of Hessen-Rumpenheim	Built in 1771 instead of a manor house	Rebuilt and converted into condominiums

Wiesbaden

Map with all coordinates of the castles and palaces in Wiesbaden : OSM

Status: March 6, 2020 | 11

Surname	Coordinates	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Biebrich Castle	50 ° 2 ′ 15 "N, 8 ° 14 ′ 3" E	Wiesbaden-Biebrich	Castle, Nassau Residence	between 1700 and 1750	Seat of the State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse , used by the Hessian state government
Hereditary Prince Palace	50 ° 4 ′ 52 "N, 8 ° 14 ′ 41" E	Wiesbaden	Lock; Crown Prince Palace	1813-1817	Seat of the Wiesbaden Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Fasanerie hunting lodge	50 ° 6 ′ 9 ″ N, 8 ° 11 ′ 33 ″ E	Wiesbaden-Klarenthal	Hunting lodge of the princes Nassau-Usingen	1744-1749	Well preserved, used as a restaurant
Frauenstein Castle	50 ° 3 ′ 55 "N, 8 ° 9 ′ 16" E	Wiesbaden-Frauenstein	Castle of the Archdiocese of Mainz	12th Century	Castle tower restored, used by the castle association
Freudenberg Castle	50 ° 3 ′ 58 "N, 8 ° 10 ′ 51" E	Wiesbaden-Dotzheim	lock	1904	Field of experience for developing the senses
Mosburg	50 ° 2 ′ 45 "N, 8 ° 14 ′ 14" E	Wiesbaden-Biebrich	Residential castle	1805	Artificial ruin
Paulinenschlösschen	50 ° 5 ′ 12 "N, 8 ° 14 ′ 49" E	Wiesbaden	Schlösschen, widow's seat of Pauline von Württemberg	1841-1843	Destroyed and demolished in 1945, today the parking lot of the Hessian State Chancellery
Hunting lodge plate	50 ° 8 ′ 3 ″ N, 8 ° 13 ′ 13 ″ E	Wiesbaden , "plate"	Hunting lodge	1823	1945 destroyed except for the outer walls, is being reconstructed
Sommerberg Castle	50 ° 3 ′ 58 "N, 8 ° 8 ′ 52" E	Wiesbaden-Frauenstein	Nassau defense yard and from 1872 castle of the noble family Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg	16th Century	privately owned
Sonnenberg Castle	50 ° 6 ′ 10 "N, 8 ° 15 ′ 57" E	Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg	Spur castle of the Counts of Nassau	from 1200	Ruin, museum in the keep
Wiesbaden City Palace	50 ° 4 ′ 56 "N, 8 ° 14 ′ 29" E	Wiesbaden	Castle, Nassau Residence	1837-1841	Hessian state parliament

Bergstrasse district

Map with all coordinates of the castles and palaces in the Bergstrasse district : OSM

Existing on: December 26, 2014 | 28

Surname	Coordinates	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Auerbach Castle	49 ° 42 ′ 33 "N, 8 ° 37 ′ 55" E	Bensheim	Höhenburg of the County of Katzenelnbogen	from 1222	Ruin, open to the public
Birkenau Castle	49 ° 33 ′ 44 "N, 8 ° 42 ′ 20" E	Birkenau (Odenwald)	Castle of the Barons Wambolt von Umstadt	1765	Only park accessible
State Park Princely Camp	49 ° 42 ′ 1 ″ N, 8 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E	Bensheim	Hunting lodge	around 1790	Summer residence with mansion of the landgraves and grand dukes of Hessen-Darmstadt
Hammer lock	49 ° 33 '58 "N, 8 ° 50' 38" E	Wald-Michelbach	lock	16th Century	preserved, privately owned
Heppenheim City Palace	49 ° 38 ′ 30 "N, 8 ° 38 ′ 38" E	Heppenheim (Bergstrasse)	Castle (city palace)	around 1700	school
Hinterburg	49 ° 24 ′ 35 "N, 8 ° 49 ′ 39" E	Neckarsteinach	Spornburg , ancestral seat of the Landschad von Steinach .	around 1100	Castle ruins
Hirschhorn Castle	49 ° 26 ′ 58 "N, 8 ° 53 ′ 54" E	Hirschhorn (Neckar)	Spur castle of the Lords of Hirschhorn	around 1260	Castle ruins
Hundheim Castle	49 ° 25 '4 "N, 8 ° 52' 24" E	Neckarsteinach	Hilltop castle	11./12. century	Burgstall , ground monument, faintly visible
Jagdschloss Jägersburg	49 ° 41 ′ 59 "N, 8 ° 31 ′ 39" E	Einhausen	Hunting lodge	1609	no structural remains
New hunting lodge Jägersburg	49 ° 42 ′ 18 "N, 8 ° 30 ′ 41" E	Einhausen	Hunting lodge	1713	no structural remains
Kurmainzer Amtshof	49 ° 38 ′ 32 "N, 8 ° 38 ′ 42" E	Heppenheim (Bergstrasse)	Amtshof	late 14th century	Wine cooperative
Lindenfels Castle	49 ° 40 ′ 56 "N, 8 ° 46 ′ 37" E	Lindenfels	Hilltop castle	11th century	Castle ruins
Burgstall Mörlenbach	49 ° 35 ′ 57 ″ N, 8 ° 44 ′ 5 ″ E	Moerlenbach	Moated castle	in the 14th century	departed
Mittelburg	49 ° 24 ′ 34 "N, 8 ° 49 ′ 58" E	Neckarsteinach	Castle	around 1165	preserved and inhabited
Neuschloß / Friedrichsburg	49 ° 36 ′ 6 ″ N, 8 ° 31 ′ 6 ″ E	Lampertheim - Neuschloß	lock	1463-1468	Destroyed in 1622, (a chemical factory on the castle grounds from 1829–1927), remains of the castle (commercial and civil servants' building), today a residential building
Upper castle	49 ° 43 ′ 22 "N, 8 ° 36 ′ 57" E	Zwingenberg	Hilltop castle	probably 11th century	Castle stable, small remains of the wall in the vault and ground floor of the Zwingenberg youth hostel
Rennhof Palace	49 ° 35 ′ 55 "N, 8 ° 35 ′ 17" E	Lampertheim - Huettenfeld	Castle in Empire style	until 1853	Lithuanian Central Committee and Lithuanian Cultural Institute, seat of the Lithuanian High School
Burgstadel Rimbach	49 ° 37 ′ 22 "N, 8 ° 45 ′ 28" E	Rimbach	Castle	unclear, mentioned 14th century	unclear, presumed near the church
Zwingenberg Castle	49 ° 43 ′ 26 "N, 8 ° 36 ′ 46" E	Zwingenberg	Castle of the Oberamtmann of the Upper County Katzenelnbogen , later a noble seat	around 1500	Town hall and administration building, cultural monument
Swallow's nest	49 ° 24 ′ 25 "N, 8 ° 49 ′ 28" E	Neckarsteinach	Hilltop castle	1230	Castle ruins
Schoenberg Castle	49 ° 41 ′ 34 "N, 8 ° 38 ′ 47" E	Bensheim - Schönberg	Castle of the house of Erbach , later residential castle of the Erbach-Schönberg line	13th Century	Training and conference center of the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See
Starkenburg	49 ° 38 ′ 46 "N, 8 ° 38 ′ 55" E	Heppenheim (Bergstrasse)	Höhenburg, Mainz property	1065	youth hostel
Stein Castle (Zullenstein)	49 ° 42 ′ 13 "N, 8 ° 23 ′ 32" E	Biblis	Customs castle on the foundation walls of a Roman burgus	New building after 1068	In the Thirty Years' War destroyed excavated foundations preserved
Vorderburg	49 ° 24 ′ 33 "N, 8 ° 50 ′ 7" E	Neckarsteinach	Hilltop castle	around 1200	inhabited
Waldau Castle Stables	49 ° 36 ′ 34 "N, 8 ° 51 ′ 12" E	Grasellenbach - Elections	Moated castle	12-13 century	Burgstall
Wald-Michelbach Castle	49 ° 34 ′ 21 ″ N, 8 ° 49 ′ 29 ″ E	Wald-Michelbach	Castle	12-13 century	Remnants of moats and walls
Zwingenberg hunting lodge	49 ° 43 ′ 19 ″ N, 8 ° 36 ′ 51 ″ E	Zwingenberg	Hunting lodge of the Landgraviate of Hesse , later a winery , later a district court	1563	New building from the beginning of the 18th century, renovated in 1988, apartments, senior citizen meeting place, theater
Zwingenberg moated castle	49 ° 43 ′ 19 "N, 8 ° 36 ′ 47" E	Zwingenberg	Moated castle	before 1250	small remains of the wall

Darmstadt-Dieburg district

Date of stock: May 5, 2015 | 38

Surname	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Albini Castle	The castle	Castle on the remains of the Dieburg castle complex	1809	received, apartments, restaurant
Alsbach Castle (Bickenbach Castle)	Alsbach chicken	Spornburg of the Lords of Bickenbach	around 1235	Castle ruins
Old castle	Mühltal - Nieder-Beerbach	Spurburg	unknown, probably mid-11th century	no remains, presumed predecessor of Frankenstein Castle
Old Eschollbrücken Castle	Pfungstadt - Eschollbrücken	Moated castle or moth of the local nobility	probably 11th century	no remains above ground, evidence of aerial photographs and geophysical prospection
Old castle	Mühltal - Nieder-Beerbach	Spurburg	unclear, probably 11th century	Burgstall, small remains of ramparts and moats
Babenhausen Castle	Babenhausen	Wasserburg of Hagen-Münzenberg , later Hanauische castle and secondary residence; Expansion to the castle	Around 1200	Is currently empty and should be used as a hotel
Bickenbach Hunting Lodge	Bickenbach	Hunting lodge of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt	1720/1721	Manor house (residential building) and large building (today town hall ) still exist
Braunshardt Castle	Weiterstadt - Braunshardt	Castle of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt	from 1760	Municipal property, partly retirement home
Curti lock	Groß-Umstadt	Adelshof, later Castle of Curti	from 1500	Deposed in 1963
Darmstadt Castle	Groß-Umstadt	Moated castle of Fulda Abbey from 1750 castle	12th century 1727–1747 conversion to a baroque palace	Sold privately, usage rights for church organizations
Dieburg Castle	The castle	Wasserburg , founded by the von Hagen-Münzenberg gentlemen	Mid 12th century	small remains preserved
Dorndiel Castle (Pfalzhof, Pfälzer Hof)	Groß-Umstadt - Dorndiel	Castle, presumably owned by the Amorbach clamp	Mentioned in a document in 1390	no leftovers received
Ernsthofen Castle	Modautal - Ernsthofen	Moated castle, later a castle	8/9 It was built from a courtyard in the 14th century, expanded into a castle by the 14th century at the latest	preserved in parts as a closed system, private property (cannot be viewed )
Fechenbach Castle	The castle	lock	1717 in place of a Burgmannenhaus	Museum Schloss Fechenbach
Frankenstein Castle	Seeheim-Jugenheim	Spornburg, built by Conrad von Breuberg , ancestral castle of the barons von und zu Frankenstein	Early 13th century, first mentioned in 1252	Castle ruins, restaurant
Gans'scher Adelshof	Groß-Umstadt	Adelshof	Mid 13th century	Remodeled preserved, private property
Graefenhausen Castle	Weiterstadt - Graefenhausen	Moated castle, later a castle	after 1211, 1555 castle renovation	Retirement and nursing home
Habitzheim Castle	Otzberg - Habitzheim	Wasserburg, later Hofgut	13th Century	Hofgut, remains preserved
Old hunting lodge Harreshausen	Babenhausen - Harreshausen	Hunting lodge with armory and forest garden by Johann Reinhard III. from Hanau	1722-1723	House and remnants of the garden, private property
Heddersdorf'scher Adelshof	Groß-Umstadt	Adelshof, mansion	13th century, mansion around 1570	Manor house and barn in the area preserved, private property, apartments
Heiligenberg Castle	Seeheim-Jugenheim	Castle of the Grand Dukes of Hesse and the Battenberg line	1862-1867	Headquarters of the Office for Teacher Education
Jossa Castle	Seeheim-Jugenheim	Hilltop castle	around 1290-1300	Castle ruins, ramparts preserved
Castle small rooms	Large rooms - small rooms	Wasserburg, expansion to a castle	probably 13th century	overbuilt like a castle, today a modern youth welfare center "St. Josephshaus"
Lichtenberg Castle	Fischbachtal	Höhenburg of the County of Katzenelnbogen , later a castle and secondary residence of the Landgraviate of Hesse	12th Century	Property of the State of Hesse, partially inhabited
Nieder-Modau Castle	Nieder-Modau	Hilltop castle	around 1200	Burgstall, barely visible remains
Schloss-Naus moated castle	Otzberg - Naus Castle	Wasserburg, aristocratic seat of the goose from Otzberg	First mentioned in 1471	Much preserved, restaurant
Veste Otzberg	Otzberg - herring	Höhenburg, foundation of the Fulda Abbey , later an Electoral Palatinate fortress	End of the 12th / beginning of the 13th century	Mostly preserved, used as a castle museum and registry office
Palatinate Castle	Groß-Umstadt	Moated castle of the Fulda monastery , later castle of the Electoral Palatinate	12th century (moated castle) 15th century (castle)	municipal property
Rodenstein Castle	Groß-Umstadt	Castle, Adelshof	14th Century	municipal property, senior housing complex
Schaafheim Castle	Schaafheim	Lower castle of the Lords of Hanau , later a castle	Probably 14th century, 15th century castle reconstruction	Demolished in 1823 (except for small remains)
Schlierbach Castle	Babenhausen - Langstadt	Höhenburg, Hanau fiefdom of those from Düdelsheim and von Wasen	unknown, only mentioned between 1393 and 1539	departed
Castle Ober-Beerbach	Seeheim-Jugenheim - Ober-Beerbach	Hilltop castle	unknown, probably 11th century	small remains, presumed predecessor of Frankenstein Castle
Seeheim Castle	Seeheim-Jugenheim	Hofgut , after expansion, the summer palace of the Grand Dukes of Hesse	before 1808 Hofgut, 1831–1834 palace construction	Private residential complex, park freely accessible
Stockau Castle (Groschlag's Castle)	The castle	lock	1699	Demolished in 1857
Tannenberg Castle	Seeheim-Jugenheim	Hilltop castle	around 1230	Destroyed in 1399, excavated and preserved castle ruins
Wambolt's castle	Groß-Umstadt	Castle of the Wambolt of Umstadt	Late renaissance complex of the 17th century in place of the older castle complex	preserved, in need of renovation, sold to private in 2015
Hamlet hill	between Alsbach-Hähnlein and Bickenbach	High moth of the Lords of Bickenbach	Late 11th / early 12th century	Tower hill eleven meters high preserved, ground monument
Wellberg Castle	Pfungstadt	moth	10/11 century	Tower hill six meters high preserved, ground monument

Groß-Gerau district

Existing on: August 3, 2018 | 14th

Surname	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Alt-Wolfskehlen Castle	Riedstadt - Wolfskehlen	Niederungsburg, moth	first mentioned in 1184	Burgstall southeast of the village, no remains above ground, moat indistinct
Astheim Bohemian Castle	Trebur - Astheim	Niederungsburg	13th Century	Burgstall
Dornberg Castle	Groß-Gerau - Dornberg	Moated castle, later residence and Hessen-Darmstadt hunting lodge.	12th Century	Destroyed by French troops in 1689. Remnants of the surrounding wall, a gate and an archway have been preserved, used by the adult education center.
Falkenau Castle	Gernsheim	Niederungsburg	first mentioned in 1266	nothing received
Gernsheim Castle	Gernsheim	Moated castle	first mentioned in 1276	Burgstall
Swedish Fortress Gustavsburg (Fort Mainspitze) (Gustavsburg Fortress)	Ginsheim-Gustavsburg - Gustavsburg	fortress	1632	Abandoned again in 1636, demolished in 1673, remains and gabions indicating the course, in Gustavsburg Castle Park
Hassloch Castle	Rüsselsheim am Main - Haßloch	Moated castle	1331	Burgstall, overbuilt, remains of moats and foundations
Kelsterbach Castle (Wolfenburg)	Kelsterbach	Castle, Isenburg Renaissance complex	between 1564 and 1580	In ruins since the Thirty Years War, not visible
Mönchbruch hunting lodge	Moerfelden-Walldorf	Castle ( hunting lodge )	around 1730	Privately owned
Mörfelden Castle	Moerfelden-Walldorf	Moated castle	unknown, no later than 1325	Burgstall, no leftovers
Neu-Wolfskehlen Castle	Riedstadt - Wolfskehlen	Niederungsburg	13th Century	Burgstall, destroyed again in 1301, location verified and basic structure determined in 2017
Rüsselsheim Fortress	Rüsselsheim am Main	Fortress , expansion of a previous castle complex	from 1479	City and industrial museum, city archive, café
Schwedenschanze	Kelsterbach	Ring wall	8-10 century	Ground monument
Palatinate Trebur	Trebur	Königspfalz	Beginning in Carolingian times (9th century)	not visible

Hochtaunuskreis

Existing on: July 23, 2018 | 26 in 25 articles

Surname	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Altweilnau Castle	Weilrod - Altweilnau	Hilltop castle	around 1200 by the Counts of Diez , first documented mention in 1208	abandoned after 1608, restored 1980–86, today castle ruins
Binzelberg Castle	Usingen	Niederungsburg	unknown	no leftovers
Bassenheimer Palais	Schmitten - Oberreifenberg	Castle, palace	around 1720 or after 1763	renovated, private property
Bommersheim Castle	Oberursel - Bommersheim	Moated castle , initially tower hill castle, later low and Ganerbe castle	11th or 12th century	Destroyed in 1382, partially excavated and built over, parts of the circular wall reconstructed, ground monument.
Brendelburg	Friedrichsdorf - Dillingen desert	Moated castle	unknown, 15th century document	gone, the area built over, no remains
Trumpet	Wehrheim - Obernhain	moth	middle Ages	Ground monument
Eichelbacher Hof	Weilrod - Rod an der Weil	Moated castle	First mentioned in a document in 1213	East wing of the later manor house preserved, private property, gastronomy
Eichelberg Castle (Weilrod)	Weilrod - Cratzenbach	Tower Hill Castle	First mentioned in a document in 1213	Burgstall
Emmershausen Castle	Weilrod - Emmershausen	Höhenburg, permanent house	around 1207	Burgstall, today a church, few remains can be seen
Falkenstein castle ruins	Königstein im Taunus - Falkenstein	Hilltop castle	Mid 14th century	Castle ruins
Gothic house	Bad Homburg vor der Höhe - Dornholzhausen	Hunting lodge	1823	Never used hunting lodge of the Landgraves of Hessen-Homburg , today Münz- und Hut-Museum ( Homburg-Hut )
Friedrichshof Palace	Kronberg im Taunus	lock	1889-1893	Castle hotel, owned by the Hessian House Foundation
Hattstein castle ruins	Schmitten	Hilltop castle	around 1150	small remains preserved
Homburg Palace ("Friedrichsburg")	Bad Homburg vor der Höhe	Residence of the Landgraves of Hesse-Homburg	around 1180	Seat of the administration of the State Palaces and Gardens of Hesse , Castle Museum
Ringwall Hünerberg	Kronberg im Taunus	Ring wall , probably from the early Middle Ages	Franconian time	Wall preserved and visible
Koenigstein Castle	Königstein im Taunus	Hilltop castle	before 1200	Castle ruins, open all year round
Kransberg Castle	Usingen - Kransberg	Hilltop castle	1170	Used by the military until 1990, since then mixed use by living and office space.
Kronberg Castle	Kronberg im Taunus	Spurburg	Around 1220 to 1230	Museum and venue
→ Luxembourg Castle	Königstein im Taunus	lock	after 1858	since 1981 district court of the Hessian Ministry of Justice
Neuweilnau Castle	Weilrod - Neuweilnau	Castle of the Counts of Nassau-Weilburg	goes back to the castle from 1302	Weilrod Forestry Office
Nürings Castle	Königstein im Taunus	Hill castle of the Counts of Nürings	11th century	Preserved tower stump
Prinzenpalais Usingen	Usingen	City Palace	1768 (on an older Freihof)	Preserved, owned by the city
Reifenberg Castle	Schmitten - Oberreifenberg	Hilltop castle	First mentioned in a document in 1331	Castle ruins
Schnepfenburg	Friedrichsdorf	moth	Middle Ages (no later than 12th century)	Burgstall
Usinger Castle	Usingen	lock	First mentioned in 1382	Burned down in 1873, the new building is now a school
Wingertsbergschlösschen	Bad Homburg vor der Höhe	lock	around 1860	Demolished in 1966 and a clinic of Federal Labor overbuilt

Main-Kinzig district

As of: March 25, 2018 | 43

Surname	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Altenburg (Kenzheim Castle)	Hanau - Mittelbuchen	Wallburg	early to high Middle Ages	Ground monument, ramparts and moats visible
Altengronau moated castle	Sinntal	Castle, Niederungsburg of the Lords of Hutten	1506-1527	Parts received
Bad Orb Castle	Bad Orb	Höhenburg, location	first mentioned in 1604	restored hall
Beilstein castle ruins	Jossgrund - Lettgenbrunn	Hilltop castle	1343 first documented mention	Bering received in parts
Birstein Castle	Birstein	Castle, residence of the princes of Isenburg-Birstein	1517	Privately owned
Blue miracle	Wächtersbach - Neudorf	Former castle, residence of the Freiherren Forstmeister von Gelnhausen	around 1600 instead of an earlier moated castle	Not preserved, today riding stables
Brandenstein Castle	Schluechtern - Elm	Hilltop castle	1278	Preserved or essential parts preserved, private property and wooden equipment museum
Old Castle Büdesheim ( Bruderhof or Brendelstein )	Schöneck - Büdesheim	lock	1558	Use for cultural purposes
Büdesheim New Palace	Schöneck - Büdesheim	lock	1885	Private use
Burgjoss Castle	Jossgrund - Burgjoss	Moated castle, later a castle	Moated castle at the end of the 12th century, castle 1540–1573	Forestry Office
Dorfelden Castle	Niederdorfelden	Wasserburg, ancestral seat of the Lords of Dorfelden	First mentioned in 1234	Castle ruins
Eisenhammer Castle	Brachttal - Neuenschmidten	Isenburg castle from the 18th century with a hammer mill	built 1722/23	Is currently empty (2012)
Pfalz Gelnhausen	Gelnhausen	Imperial Palace	1180	The curtain wall and parts of the palace have been preserved
Gettenbach Castle	Gründau - Gettenbach	19th century castle	today's construction started in 1841	Handicapped care by the International Federation
Hüttelngesäß castle ruins	Free court	Moated castle	First mentioned in 1131	The ruins, parts of the outbuilding and the surrounding wall as well as the remains of the residential tower have been preserved
Hanau City Palace	Hanau	Residence of the Lords and Counts of Hanau	goes back to the moated castle of the 12th century	medieval parts broken off in 1828/29, baroque parts badly damaged in World War II, only a few outbuildings remain; Use by the Hanau City Library and Congress Park.
Hausen Castle	Bad Soden-Salmünster - Hausen	Castle of the Lords of Hutten	uncertain, first mentioned in 1540	Christian Youth Village Association in Germany
Philippsruhe Castle	Hanau	Castle in the Baroque style of the Hanau Counts	1700-1725	Historical Museum Hanau , registry office, events
Langenselbold Castle	Langenselbold	Castle of the county of Isenburg-Birstein in place of a previous Premonstratensian monastery	1722-1752	Urban use
Meerholz Castle	Gelnhausen - Meerholz	Residence of the counts of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Meerholz (1685-1929 from the line -Isenburg Büdingen divided) on the 1173 after the reformation existing Prämonstratenser -Chorfrauenstift, the convent Meerholz (Miroldis) , building	1566-1577	Diakonie senior housing complex
Naumburg Castle	Nidderau - Erbstadt	Hesse-Kassel hunting lodge in place of a previous monastery	1750-1754	Privately owned
Nassburg	Nidderau - Heroes Mountains	lost moated castle	1383	not visible
Oberburg Heldenbergen	Nidderau - Heroes Mountains	Castle on the remains of a medieval castle complex	13th Century	Privately owned
Lautersches Schlösschen	Schluechtern	lock	around 1440	preserved, local history museum
Ramholz Castle	Schluechtern - Ramholz	Castle on the remains of an older manor	1893-95	Privately owned
Ronneburg Castle	Ronneburg	Höhenburg, temporarily residence of a branch line of the Isenburg county	1200-1300	Castle museum and gastronomy
Rückingen moated castle	Erlensee - Rückingen	Moated castle	before 1248	Local museum
Grinding rashof	Bad Soden-Salmünster - Salmünster	castle-like aristocratic court	15th century at the latest	almost completely preserved, renovated; municipal property, wedding hall, apartments
Schwarzenfels Castle	Sinntal - Schwarzenfels	Höhenburg, temporarily residence of a side line of the County of Hanau-Münzenberg	before 1280	Youth hostel, used by the castle association
Spyelberg Castle Stables (Spielberg Castle)	Brachttal - Spielberg	Tower hill castle, later water castle	around 1200	Tower stump
Steckelberg Castle	Schluechtern - Ramholz	Hilltop castle	around 1388	well-preserved castle ruins
Steinheim Castle	Hanau-Steinheim	Höhenburg in the city, Electoral Mainz property	First mentioned in 1222	Museum Schloss Steinheim, archaeological collection
Stolzenberg Castle	Bad Soden-Salmünster - Bad Soden	Hilltop castle	before 1252	Castle ruins, keep as a lookout tower
Huttenburg Altengronau	Sinntal - Altengronau	Castle, Niederungsburg of the Lords of Hutten	1548-1552	inhabited private property
Bad Soden Huttenschloss	Bad Soden-Salmünster - Bad Soden	lock	1536	municipal property
Steinau Castle	Steinau an der Straße	Castle, secondary residence of the Lords and Counts of Hanau	First mentioned at the end of the 13th century	Castle Museum and Brothers Grimm Memorial.
Hof Trages	Freigericht - Somborn	Hofgut, with lock	13th Century	Privately owned castle (noble family von Savigny ), estate part of a golf course
Uerzell moated castle	Steinau an der Straße - Uerzell	Moated castle of the Lords of Mörle	1337	Burgstall, built-up remains in residential building
Wachenbuchen Castle	Maintal - Wachenbuchen	Moth of the Lords of Beeches	11th century	Ground monument, trenches and tower mound visible.
Wächtersbach Castle	Waechtersbach	Castle, residence of an Isenburg branch line	goes back to a medieval moated castle	since 2016 owned by the city of Wächtersbach, under renovation
Windecken Castle	Nidderau - wind corners	Spornburg, Hanau's secondary seat and widow's seat, later the official seat	1260-1262	The gate and official building from the 18th century have been preserved, gastronomy
Wirtheim Castle	Biebergemünd - Wirtheim	Kurmainzer official seat and renaissance castle	First mentioned in 1426	preserved, private property and homes
Wolfgang hunting lodge	Hanau-Wolfgang	Hunting lodge	1715	Remodeled preserved, administration building Hessisches Forstamt Wolfgang

Main-Taunus-Kreis

Map with all coordinates Main-Taunus-Kreis : OSM

Existing on: December 23, 2014 | 9 in 8 articles

Surname	Coordinates	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Ringwall Alteburg	50 ° 7 ′ 5 "N, 8 ° 24 ′ 35" E	Hofheim am Taunus - Lorsbach	Ring wall	early medieval	Ground monument, faintly visible
Eppstein Castle	50 ° 8 ′ 25 ″ N, 8 ° 23 ′ 35 ″ E	Eppstein	Spur castle of the Lords of Eppstein	First mentioned in 1122	Castle ruins with town and castle museum
Eschborn tower castle	50 ° 8 ′ 46 ″ N, 8 ° 34 ′ 4 ″ E	Eschborn	Tower castle	11th century	Destroyed in 1622
Hofheim moated castle	50 ° 5 ′ 12 "N, 8 ° 26 ′ 49" E	Hofheim am Taunus	Moated castle	possibly 14th century	The moat was leveled and the structure was later rebuilt, the ruin preserved, the town's property, cultural monument, and cellar building from the 18th century in the outer bailey
Massenheim Castle	50 ° 2 '26 "N, 8 ° 23' 4" E	Hochheim am Main - Massenheim	Manor house so-called castle	1740	receive
Paulinenschlösschen	50 ° 8 ′ 42 "N, 8 ° 30 ′ 13" E	Bad Soden am Taunus	lock	1847	municipal property
→ Rettershof Castle	50 ° 10 ′ 9 ″ N, 8 ° 25 ′ 50 ″ E	Kelkheim	Castle	1884	Castle Hotel
Schwalbach Castle	50 ° 8 ′ 56 ″ N, 8 ° 32 ′ 15 ″ E	Schwalbach am Taunus	Moated castle	first mentioned in a document in 1345	last remains removed around 1960
Weilbach Castle	50 ° 2 ′ 45 "N, 8 ° 25 ′ 51" E	Flörsheim am Main - Weilbach	Castle, emerged from an older castle complex	12-13 century	Privately owned

Odenwaldkreis

Last date: December 25, 2014 | 22nd

Surname	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Beerfurther Schlösschen	Reichelsheim - Beerfurth	Spurburg	before 1200	Ramps and ditches as well as parts of the curtain wall are visible
Breuberg Castle	Breuberg	Höhenburg , founded by the Lords of Breuberg	around 1160	Except for parts of the outer bailey largely preserved, youth hostel and Breuberg Museum
Hunting lodge Carlsruhe	Breuberg - Sandbach	Hunting lodge and rectory of Karl Thomas zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort on the older noble court of the Schenken zu Erbach	1768-1772	preserved, meeting house
Erbach Castle	Erbach	Castle, emerged from a medieval castle, ancestral seat of the Erbach taverns	1st half of the 13th century	Counts 'collections with exhibitions of hunting, antiques and weapons, the counts' administration, residence of the Counts of Erbach-Erbach , property of the State of Hesse
Eulbach Hunting Lodge	Michelstadt - Würzberg	Hunting lodge	1771 as a hunting lodge, in 1846 expansion into a hunting lodge	Residence of the Counts of Erbach-Erbach , part of the entire Eulbacher Park complex , a listed building
Freienstein Castle	Oberzent - Gammelsbach	Spurburg	First mentioned in 1297	Castle ruins
Fürstenau Castle	Michelstadt - Steinbach	Castle ( moated castle , later residence of the Erbach-Fürstenau line )	Early 14th century	Residence of the count's family
Gammelsbach hunting lodge	Oberzent - Gammelsbach	Hunting lodge	1761 to 1796	receive
Güttersbach Castle	Mossautal - Güttersbach	Moated castle	probably 13th century	Burgstall (no reliable historical knowledge)
Manor house (Fränkisch-Crumbach) Castle of the Lords of Gemmingen	Franconian Crumbach	Permanent house , later a castle (after destruction, rebuilding and renovation)	1572-1574	Family owned by the Gemmingen-Hornberg line
Kirchbrombach Castle	Kirchbrombach	Spornburg in the local area	13th Century	Only parts of the curtain wall have been preserved as a churchyard wall
Bad König Castle	Bad King	Castle in place of a former fortified cemetery	16th Century	Preserved, seat of the city administration
Krähberg hunting lodge	Oberzent - Ober-Sensbach (location: Krähberg )	Hunting lodge	1761-1771	Preserved, private property
Lützelbach Castle	Lützelbach	Ancestral seat of Mr. Reiz von Breuberg	1st half of the 12th century	not preserved, today church and cemetery
Michelstadt Castle	Michelstadt	City castle, later winery	before 1344	Michelstadt City Museum , cultural events
Mühlhäuser Schlößchen	Breuberg	Weiherhaus	unsure	Endangered existence, ground monument
Former Pretlack Palace	Franconian Crumbach	Aristocratic residence	around 1240	since 1968 town hall
Pretlack's palace	Lützelbach - Rimhorn	Aristocratic residence	1733	Village community center with wedding room
Rodenstein Castle	Franconian Crumbach	Hillside castle	around 1240	Castle ruins
Reichenberg Castle	Reichelsheim (Odenwald)	Höhenburg, Erbachische foundation	around 1150	restored, owned by the Young Christians Offensive
Schnellerts Castle	Brensbach	Höhenburg, only existed for a short time	13th Century	Foundation walls preserved
Stutz Castle	Oberzent - Kailbach	Hilltop castle	11-13 Century (little researched)	Burgstall, rampart and remains of a moat

Offenbach district

Map with all coordinates of the Offenbach district : OSM

Existing on: May 27, 2012 | 9

Surname	Coordinates	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Hainhausen moated castle	50 ° 2 ′ 36 "N, 8 ° 52 ′ 51" E	Rodgau - Hainhausen	Ancestral seat of the Lords of Eppstein	before 1108	Excavations started in August 2012, display board on site
Hayn Castle	50 ° 0 ′ 5 "N, 8 ° 42 ′ 59" E	Dreieich	Hagen-Munzenberg Castle in the Dreieich Wildbann	around 1080	Castle ruins, owned by the Dreieichenhain e. V., Dreieich Museum and Castle Festival
Houses castle	50 ° 0 ′ 20 "N, 9 ° 1 ′ 8" E	Mainhausen - Zellhausen	Niederungsburg	Mentioned in 1238	Only castle hill on the edge of a clearing is preserved, sign
Schönborn Castle (Heusenstamm Castle)	50 ° 3 ′ 45 "N, 8 ° 48 ′ 28" E	Heusenstamm	Lower castle of the Lords of Heusenstamm , later Schönbornsches Schloss	First mentioned in 1211, castle from the 2nd half of the 17th century	Heusenstamm town hall and gastronomy
Castle in the Hayn	50 ° 4 '5 "N, 8 ° 51' 14" E	Obertshausen	Moated castle of the Lords of Hausen	12th Century	few remains preserved, most of the stones have been removed.
Philippseich Castle	49 ° 59 ′ 20 "N, 8 ° 43 ′ 47" E	Dreieich - Götzenhain	Castle, residence of the Isenburg-Philippseich county	Late 17th / early 18th century	inhabited, private property
Palatinate Seligenstadt	50 ° 2 ′ 41 ″ N, 8 ° 58 ′ 38 ″ E	Seligenstadt	Königspfalz	Mid 13th century	Destroyed in 1460, main front preserved
Seligenstadt moated castle	50 ° 2 ′ 16 ″ N, 8 ° 59 ′ 26 ″ E	Seligenstadt	Pleasure palace in the style of a moated castle	Early 18th century	Preserved, private property
Wolfsgarten Castle	49 ° 58 ′ 49 ″ N, 8 ° 38 ′ 20 ″ E	Langen (Hesse)	Hunting lodge of the Landgraves of Hessen-Darmstadt	1722-1724	Property of the Hessian House Foundation , not accessible to the public

Rheingau-Taunus district

Existing on: September 15, 2017 | 50

Surname	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Adolfseck Castle	Adolfseck	Spurburg	around 1356	Wall remains
Adolfseck ski jump	Bad Schwalbach - Lindschied	Siege castle	Thirty Years' War	Remains of ramparts
Old Schanz (Heidenrod)	Heidenrod - anger	Ring wall	Early middle ages	visible ground monument
Old lock	Hohenstein - Breithardt	Hilltop castle	around 1400	Visible ground monument, remains of a moat, castle plateau
Ringwall old castle	Aarbergen	Ring wall	Early middle ages	visible ground monument
Ringwall Altenstein	Taunusstein - Hahn	Ring wall	unknown	faintly visible castle stable
Blideneck stronghold	Lorch - Ransel	Höhenburg, stronghold	1279	Neck ditch and wall remains
Boosenburg	Rudesheim am Rhein	Niederungsburg	probably 12th century	Winery
Brömserburg	Rudesheim am Rhein	Niederungsburg on the banks of the Rhine	probably end of the 12th century	Rheingau Wine Museum
Brömserhof	Rudesheim am Rhein	Fixed house	probably 15th century	Siegfried's Mechanical Music Cabinet
Crass Castle	Eltville on the Rhine	Niederungsburg owned by the lower nobility, later a neo-Gothic castle	probably 11th century	Hotel and restaurant
Ringwall Dreibornskopf	Kiedrich	Ring wall	unknown	Burgstall, Wallrest
Ehrenfels Castle	Rudesheim am Rhein	Spurburg	around 1211	Castle ruins owned by the State of Hesse, large parts have been preserved.
Eltville electoral castle	Eltville on the Rhine	Low castle and customs castle	before 1300	Gutenberg memorial with a historical collection
Geroldstein Castle	Heidenrod - Geroldstein	Hilltop castle	Late 12th century	Remains of the heptagonal keep
Glimendal Castle	Eltville - Martinsthal	Hilltop castle	Mentioned in 1263	Burgstall, few remains of a moat
Greifenstein Castle (Hohenstein)	Hohenstein - Burg-Hohenstein	Höhenburg in spur location	middle Ages	Masonry remains
Ringwall Hallgarter pliers	Hallgarten (Rheingau)	Ring wall	middle Ages	Remnants of dry masonry
Haneck Castle	Heidenrod - Geroldstein	Höhenburg above the Rhine at the mouth of the Wisper	1386	Castle ruin with shield wall, private property; Visits only possible after consultation. Further information
Hareschloß	Heidenrod - anger	presumed tower hill castle of unknown assignment	unknown	visible ground monument
Hattenheim Castle	Eltville am Rhein - Hattenheim	Niederungsburg in local location	around 1100	Castle ruins in private ownership
Hohenbuchau Castle	Georgenborn	Country estate	1869	Demolished in 1963
Hohenstein Castle (Taunus)	Hohenstein	Höhenburg, residence of the County of Katzenelnbogen	between 1190 and 1230	Castle ruins, restaurant, registry office
Holdersberg Castle	Idstein	Spurburg	early medieval	Castle ruins, ground monument
Idstein Castle	Idstein	Hill castle, later Renaissance castle	11th century, 17th century castle building	Pestalozzi School Idstein
Johannisberg Castle	Johannisberg	Hilltop castle	probably in the 11th century	Burgstall
Johannisberg Castle	Johannisberg	lock	1716, previously a monastery complex	Winemaking domain
Kammerburg	Lorch	Hilltop castle	around 1295	Castle ruins, ground monument
Lauksburg	Lorch	Spurburg	12th Century	Castle ruins
Ring wall system Nack	Idstein	Ring wall	Early middle ages	visible ground monument
Neuhaus Castle (Eltville)	Eltville on the Rhine	Spurburg	13th Century	visible ground monument
Burgstall Neuhof	Taunusstein - Neuhof	Niederungsburg	11th century	no leftovers
Niederwald hunting lodge	Rudesheim am Rhein	Hunting lodge instead of an estate	16th century Hofgut, 1764 hunting lodge	renovated as a hotel, restaurant (owned by the State of Hesse)
Nollig ruins	Lorch	Hilltop castle	14th Century	Castle ruins, private property
Ostein Palace	Geisenheim	City palace, late baroque aristocratic palace	1766-1771	Palais, partly vacant, school property
Plixholz ruin	Rüdesheim am Rhein - Eibingen - Windeck	Fixed house	11th century	ruin
Reichartshausen Castle	Oestrich-Winkel - Oestrich	lock	1737-1740	EBS University of Economics and Law
Reinhartshausen Castle	Eltville am Rhein - Erbach (Rheingau)	Castle in place of an older knight's seat	1801	Luxury hotel
Rheinberg Castle	Lorch	Spurburg	around 1165	Castle ruins in private ownership, accessible
Rotenburger Schlösschen	Bad Schwalbach	lock	1602-1610	District court, cultural monument
Scharfenstein Castle	Kiedrich	Spurburg	1160	Castle ruins
Schönborn Castle	Geisenheim	Castle, Gothic aristocratic seat	Mid 16th century	receive
Schwarzenstein Castle	Johannisberg	artificial ruin of the 19th century	1873	Hotel and restaurant for upscale gastronomy
Walluf tower castle	Niederwalluf	Niederungsburg	around 1000	Ruin, ground monument, remains of the tower and the trenches are visible
Vollrads Castle	Oestrich-Winkel - Winkel	Castle, emerged from an older moated castle	Early 14th century	Winery, privately owned
Vorderburg (Rüdesheim)	Rudesheim am Rhein	Niederungsburg in local location	12th Century	Romanesque residential tower preserved
Waldeck Castle	Lorch	Hilltop castle	around 1147	Castle ruins, private property, accessible
Waldems ring wall	Waldems - Reichenbach	Ring wall	Early middle ages	visible ground monument
Wallrabenstein Castle	Wallrabenstein	Niederungsburg in local location	around 1390	Privately owned ruin
Wehen Castle	Taunusstein - labor pains	Castle (on Niederungsburg) in local position	before 1330	Taunussteiner Museum and the inn "Zum Schloss"

Wetteraukreis

Existing on: February 28, 2020 | 48

Surname	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Alteburg (Kohden)	Nidda - Kohden	Hilltop castle	11th century	Ground monument, few remains visible
Assenheim Castle	Niddatal - Assenheim	Niederungsburg, later a castle , residence of the Counts of Solms-Rödelheim	First mentioned in a document in 1184, later modifications to the castle	Residence of the count's family
Bauernheim Castle	Friedberg - farmer's home	Niederungsburg	11-12 Century	Burgstall
Berstadt Castle	Wölfersheim - Berstadt	Moated castle	10-11 century	Burgstall, small remains
Bingenheim Castle	Echzell - Bingenheim	Niederungsburg, later a palace, residence of the Landgrave of Hesse-Bingenheim	First mentioned in a document in 1064, later modifications to a castle	Bingenheim community
Bisses Castle	Echzell - bite	Moated castle	documented in 1390	no leftovers
Bracht Castle	Kefenrod - Burgbracht	Niederungsburg	12th Century	Burgstall : remains of the castle hill and foundation walls
Büdingen Castle	Büdingen	Moated castle, residence of the county of Isenburg	First mentioned in a document in 1219	Hotel and restaurant business, castle museum, residence of the princely family
Landgraves Castle Butzbach	Butzbach	Castle of the Landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt ( Landgravial or New Castle ) in place of an older castle complex	1610	Magistrate and city administration
Degenfeld's Castle	Karben - Groß-Karben	lock	1728	Apartments, museums, urban use
Dorheim Castle	Friedberg - Dorheim	Moated castle and castle	Mentioned 13th century	Wall remains
Echzeller Castle (Echzeller Castle)	Echzell	Baroque castle on an old moated castle	1713 (presumably 11th century)	restored, preserved, boarding school Institut Lucius
Burgstall Enzheim	Altenstadt - Enzheim	Moated castle	documented only in 1414	gone, only trench remains
Friedberg Castle	Friedberg (Hesse)	Reichsburg and center of the Burggrafschaft Friedberg , one of the largest castle complexes in Germany	1171-1180	Burggymnasium Friedberg and residential buildings, keep can be visited
Gedern Castle	Gedern	Stolbergisches Schloss, emerged from an earlier castle	Castle 1st half of 13th century, castle from 17th century	Castle, rent office, archway house (stables), coach house preserved
Winning stick	Bad Nauheim - Schwalheim	moth	in the 10th century, only mentioned in 1283	Castle hill
Glauburg Castle	Glauburg - Glauberg	Hilltop castle	Predecessor facility early Middle Ages, 12. – 13. century	ruin
Griedel Castle	Butzbach - Griedel	Niederungsburg	14th Century	Keep as a church tower
Günderrode Castle	Altenstadt - Höchst an der Nidder	Castle of the Günderrode family , emerged from an older castle complex	First mentioned castle in 1245, castle in 1718	is currently (2011) empty
Hamershusen Castle (Gerlachshausen)	Rockenberg	Permanent house or small low castle	around 1356	gone, desert, no longer mentioned as early as 1398
Hardeck castle ruins	Büdingen	Hilltop castle	10-11 century	Wall systems visible, Burgstall
Teutonic Order Castle Kloppenheim	Karben - Kloppenheim	Castle of the Teutonic Order	1708-1718	Privately owned
Konradsdorf Castle	Ortenberg - Konradsdorf	Tower castle , later monastery complex	around 1000	Ground monument
Leustadt estate	Glauburg - Stockheim	Moated castle, palace, estate	780 first mention	Exemplarily restored, privately owned
Leonhard Castle	Karben - Groß-Karben	Neo-Gothic palace complex	current mansion from 1775	Privately owned
Lindheim Castle	Altenstadt - Lindheim	Moated castle in the local area, Ganerbe castle , later a castle	unknown, second castle from 1289, palace from 1697, destroyed in 1928	only a few remains preserved
Lißberg Castle	Ortenberg - Lißberg	Spurburg	first mentioned in a document in 1222	Castle ruins, community hall for events
Löwsche Castle (Nieder-Florstadt)	Florstadt - Nieder-Florstadt	Classicist castle	First half of the 18th century	Condominiums
Löwsche Castle (Staden)	Florstadt - Staden	Modern castle of the Löw von Steinfurth	1746	Community center
Löwsche Castle (Steinfurth)	Bad Nauheim - Steinfurth	Classicist castle	Beginning of the 19th century	hotel and gastronomy
Moritzstein Castle	Gedern - Wenings	Niederungsburg, castle extension	18th century	Gatehouse, museum
Munzenberg Castle	Munzenberg	Hohenstaufen castle, ancestral seat of the Lords of Hagen-Munzenberg	before 1162	Ruin, essential parts are preserved and can be visited
Nidda Castle	Nidda	originally a moated castle, after 1604 (probably 1633) it was rebuilt as a landgrave's castle	Built around 1100 or completed by Volkold II von Nidda in the 17th century as a renaissance castle	until the end of 2011 seat of the local court in Nidda
Nieder-Rosbach Castle	Rosbach vd Höhe - Nieder-Rosbach	Moated castle	13th Century	public meeting place
Ober-Mörlen Castle	Ober-Mörlen	lock	1589	Town hall of the municipality of Ober-Mörlen
Ockstadt Castle	Friedberg - Ockstadt	originally a moated castle, after 1714 it was converted into a castle	1495	Private property, home for the disabled
Ortenberg Castle (Hesse)	Ortenberg	Niederungsburg, later a castle	Castle from the 12th century, castle between 1624 and 1627, further renovations in the 18th and 19th centuries	Property of the Counts of Stolberg-Wernigerode, partially accessible
Philippseck Castle	Butzbach - Munster	Fortified palace complex of Landgrave Philipp von Hessen-Butzbach	1626-1628	Auctioned for demolition in 1773/74, hardly visible on site
Rockenberg Castle	Rockenberg	Höhenburg in local location	around 1317	Parish ownership
Södel Castle (Södel Castle)	Wölfersheim - Södel	Niederungsburg, castle extension	1st half of the 16th century	In need of renovation (access blocked), private property
Staden Castle (Ysenburg Castle)	Florstadt - Staden	Medieval low castle and Renaissance castle	Mid 12th century	agricultural operation and gastronomy
Stammheim Castle	Florstadt - Stammheim	Castle of the Lords of Rosenbach	1587 in place of an older moated castle	inhabited private property
Stornfels Castle	Nidda - Stornfels	Hilltop castle	11th century	risen in church
Castle stable Ulfa	Nidda - Ulfa - "Old Castle"	Niederungsburg	11th century	departed
Vilbel Castle	Bad Vilbel	Niederungsburg in local location	12./13. century	Castle Festival
Solms Castle	Butzbach	Castle of the Counts of Solms	around 1481
Wölfersheim Castle	Wolfersheim	Solms-Braunfels'sche Stadtburg , part of the fortifications	presumably late 14th / early 15th century	The former keep is now the church tower of today's Evangelical Reformed Church in Wölfersheim
Ziegenberg Castle	Ober-Mörlen - Langenhain-Ziegenberg	Baroque castle in place of the older tower castle	Mid 14th century	Destroyed and rebuilt in the Second World War as part of the Führer headquarters Adlerhorst , today condominiums

Administrative region of Giessen (Central Hesse)

District of Giessen

Date of existence: November 28, 2012 | 38

Surname	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use	image
Arnsburg Castle	Lich - Arnsburg Monastery	Spornburg of the Lords of Hagen-Munzenberg , predecessor of Munzenberg Castle	around 1000	Ground monument, foundation walls preserved
Badenburg	to water	Niederungsburg on the banks of the Lahn	1358	Catering business
Bellersheim castles	Hungen - Bellersheim	three low castles in the village, two of them water castles	13-14 century	Residential buildings	(Middle castle)
Brandsburg	Buseck - Alten-Buseck	Niederungsburg in local location	before 1490	Manor house from 1735 preserved, used as a youth club, community room for rural women, library and exhibition room
Great-Buseck southern castle	Buseck - Grossen-Buseck	Moated castle	1400	nothing received
Großen-Buseck Castle (Buseck Castle)	Buseck - Grossen-Buseck	2 predecessors on the site: Wasserburg, Burg "Perch", later castle renovation	13th century, castle renovation 1580, neo-Gothic 1860	preserved, seat of the municipal administration Buseck
Cleeberg Castle	Langgöns	Spurburg	before 1129	Large parts, including the keep, the hall and residential buildings from the 17th / 18th centuries have been preserved. century
Ellhaus Castle	Staufenberg - Treis on the Lumda	Moated castle	13-14 century	Residential tower, inhabited private property
Friedelhausen Castle	Lollar	lock	1851, older parts from 1564	inhabited private property
Gleiberg Castle	Wettenberg - Krofdorf-Gleiberg	Hill castle of the Counts of Gleiberg	around 900	Ruin owned by the Gleiberg Association
Old Gronau Castle	Lollar	fortified Franconian royal court, stage court	possibly as early as 720	Remains of the foundation
Burgstall Grünberg	Grünberg	Niederungsburg	around 1186	Burgstall, no leftovers
Grüningen Castle	Pohlheim	Moated castle	13th Century	Castle ruins
Old castle	to water	originally moated castle of the Landgraves of Hesse, later Hesse-Darmstadt widow seat	around 1300	Part of the Upper Hessian Museum and restaurant
New lock	to water	Landgrave's Castle	1533-1539	Institute for Geography at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen
Hofburg Alten-Buseck	Buseck - Alten-Buseck	Niederungsburg	Mentioned in 1393	disappeared castle, now a mansion
Hungen Castle	Hunger	lock	1383, 1604–12 expansion to a castle	Three-wing complex around a rectangular courtyard, condominiums
Burgstall Kirchberg	Lollar - Ruttershausen	Hilltop castle	1366	Destroyed a few years later, gone, no remains
Koenigsberg Castle	Biebertal - Koenigsberg	Hilltop castle	Mid 13th century	Small remains of the surrounding walls, cellar and the defensive tower. In the 19th century a new building similar to a castle; private, not accessible.
Laubach Castle	Laubach	Residential palace of the Counts of Solms-Laubach	13th Century	Residence of the count's family
Burgstall Lauter	Laubach - Louder	Hilltop castle	unknown, destroyed in 1618	Burgstall, Halsgraben
Lich Castle	Lich	Residential palace of the princes of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich	17th century in place of an older moated castle	Residence of the princely family
Burgstall Londorf	Rabenau - Londorf	Moated castle	around 1250	Burgstall, no leftovers
Burgstall Muschenheim	Lich - Muschenheim	Moated castle	Documented in 1334	Burgstall, vaulted cellar preserved
Nordeck Castle	Allendorf (Lumda)	Spurburg	around 1100	Country school home
Queckborn castle stable	Grünberg - Queckborn	Niederungsburg	probably 12th century	Burgstall, no visible remains
Burgstall Reiskirchen	Reiskirchen	Niederungsburg or fortified noble estate	probably end of the 12th century	no leftovers, location uncertain
Rodenscheid Castle ( castrensis de rotenschitt )	Lich	Niederungsburg	Beginning of the 13th century	Burgstall, no leftovers
Staufenberg Castle	Staufenberg	Hilltop castle	before 1233	Castle ruins, hotel in the rebuilt lower castle
Treis Castle	Staufenberg - Treis on the Lumda	Niederungsburg	probably mid-16th century	Wall remains, corner tower, round tower
Burgstall Trohe	Buseck - Trohe	Niederungsburg	first mentioned in 1210	no leftovers
Vetzberg Castle	Biebertal	Hilltop castle	1100-1150	Castle ruins owned by the community
Warnsberg Castle (Wernsberg Castle)	Lich	Hilltop castle	12th Century	Ground monument, faintly visible
Weissburgk	Buseck - Trohe	Niederungsburg	first documented in 1471	no leftovers
Westwich Castle	Lich	Niederungsburg	probably 12th century	no leftovers
Winnerod Castle	Reiskirchen - Winnerod	Hilltop castle	Mid 13th century	no leftovers
Wirberg Castle	Reiskirchen	Hill castle, monastery	12th Century	Wall and moat visible, monastery wall partially preserved
Fence castle	Buseck - Alten-Buseck	Niederungsburg in local location	mentioned in 1442	not received

Lahn-Dill district

Available on: October 24, 2019 | 26th

Surname	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Alt-Hohensolms Castle	Hohenahr	Hilltop castle	around 1321	Wall and moat systems, small remains of the foundation wall
Alt-Dernbach Castle	Herborn - Seelbach	Motte / moated castle	13th Century	Sanded ramparts and moats, wall remains in the rubble hill
Beilstein Castle	Greifenstein - Beilstein	Hilltop castle	12th Century	Castle ruins, enclosing walls
Bicken Castle	Mittenaar - Bicken	Niederungsburg	1218	no leftovers
Braunfels Castle	Braunfels	lock	Beginning of the 13th century, in 1679 expansion into a baroque residence	Castle museum, café-restaurant, privately owned
Burgstall Burg (castle near castle)	Herborn - castle	Hilltop castle	medieval	presumed remains of the foundation
Dianaburg	Greifenstein - Ulm	Hunting lodge, forester's house	Built in 1842/43	Outbuildings demolished; only the tower (main tower with four corner towers) remained, renovated
Dillenburg Castle	Dillenburg	Höhenburg / Fixed Castle	around 1130 / expansion 16th century / destruction 1760	Casemates (16th century), Wilhelmsturm (19th century)
Oberburg Driedorf	Driedorf	Niederungsburg in local location	1280-1290	small residues
Eisemroth Castle	Siegbach - Eisemroth	Hilltop castle	around 1307/08	no leftovers
Greifenstein Castle	Greifenstein	Hilltop castle	around 1160	Keep with twin towers, enclosing walls, vaults, baroque church, castle restaurant
Haiger Castle	Haiger	Moated castle	mentioned in 1178	no leftovers
Herborn Castle	Herborn	lock	1251	Main building with 3 round towers
Hermannstein Castle	Wetzlar	Hilltop castle	1373-79	Residential tower, residential building
Hessenwalt castle ruins	Eschenburg - Roth	Hilltop castle	around 1325/26	Remnants of a rock cellar, neck ditch
Heunstein ring wall castle	Dillenburg	Ringwallburg	Late Latency	Wall and moat remains
Hohensolms Castle	Hohenahr	Hilltop castle	1350/51	Leisure and conference center of the Evangelical Church of Hesse
Junker Castle	Driedorf	lock	before 1290	Remnants of the surrounding wall
Reichsburg Kalsmunt	Wetzlar	Hilltop castle	around 800/1100	Remains of the gate tower and residential buildings, keep
Lichtenstein Castle	Greifenstein - Holzhausen	Spurburg	around 1225	minimal wall remains
Palais Papius	Wetzlar	Palace	1740	Collection Dr. Irmgard von Lemmers-Danforth (European home decor from the 16th to 18th centuries)
From Ingelheim'sches Palais	Wetzlar	Palais of Count Franz Adolf Dietrich von Ingelheim (judge at the Reichskammergericht )	1715-1718	after renovation: registry office, gastronomy, apartments
Philippstein Castle	Braunfels - Philippstein	Spurburg	1390	Bergfried, Bering, Palaswand
Tringenstein Castle	Siegbach - Tringenstein	Hilltop castle	around 1350	Remnants of a round tower, remains of a wall
Wallenfels Castle	Siegbach - Wallenfels	Hilltop castle	around 1323/25	Neck ditch, small remains of the wall
Werdorf Castle	Asslar - Werdorf	lock	1686-1690	preserved, local history museum

Limburg-Weilburg district

Existing on: October 10, 2012 | 25th

Surname	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Burgstall Blumenrod	Limburg an der Lahn - Linter	Niederungsburg	Already destroyed in 1242	today there are no more remains (in 1843 wall and moat remains are said to have existed)
Camberg Castle	Bad Camberg	Hilltop castle	around 1281	no leftovers
Dehrn Castle	Runkel - Dehrn	Spornburg above the Lahn	12th century, neo-Gothic parts from the 19th century	formerly owned by the state of Hesse, privately owned since 2012
Old Elbe Valley Castle	Elbe Valley - Elbgrund	Moated castle	unsure, 12. – 13. Century, castle house from 1486	Courtyard preserved, only a few remains of the wall of the moated castle
Elkerhausen Castle	Weinbach - Elkerhausen	Niederungsburg in local location	1532 in place of an older castle complex	essential parts received
Ellar Castle	Waldbrunn - Ellar	Höhenburg in local location	around 1300	Castle ruins
Freienfels Castle	Weinbach - Freienfels	Spurburg	around 1300	Castle ruins owned by the Association for the Preservation of Burgruine Freienfels e. V., Freienfelser Ritterspiele
Graeveneck Castle	Weinbach - Graeveneck	Niederungsburg ( siege castle against Neu-Elkerhausen Castle )	1395	Castle rest
Grebenhausen Castle	Weilmünster - Möttau	Moated castle	1335	Castle ruins
Gretenstein Castle	Villmar	Hilltop castle	around 1350	no residues, unclear location
Hadamar Castle	Hadamar	Castle, temporarily residence of the Nassau-Hadamar line	17th century in place of the older castle complex	Authority building, city museum, restaurant
Heckholzhausen Castle	Beselich - Heckholzhausen	Spurburg	13th Century	no leftovers
Kirberg Castle	Kirberg	Hilltop castle	around 1355	Tower and remains of the wall preserved
Laneburg	Löhnberg	Spurburg	1321-1324	Castle ruins owned by the community, changing events
Limburg Castle	Limburg on the Lahn	Höhenburg, later Limburg Castle	around 800	Mostly preserved
Maienburg (Eigenberg Castle)	Mengerskirchen - Winkels	Hilltop castle	First mentioned in a document in 1331	Castle ruins
Mengerskirchen Castle	Mengerskirchen	Nassau castle, later a castle	around 1312	Municipal administration, community center and local history museum
Merenberg Castle	Merenberg	Hilltop castle	first mentioned in 1129	Castle ruins
Neu-Elkerhausen Castle	Weinbach - Graeveneck	Hilltop castle	around 1352	destroyed, few remains of the wall
Runkel Castle	Runkel	Höhenburg above the Lahn	First mentioned in 1159	Upper castle ruins, lower castle inhabited, museum, archive and princely-wied administration
Schadeck Castle	Runkel	Höhenburg, Trutzburg opposite Runkel Castle	1288	Main building is inhabited and cannot be viewed from the inside
Steuererburg (Gräveneck)	Weinbach - Graeveneck	Niederungsburg (siege castle against Neu-Elkerhausen Castle)	1381	no leftovers
Villmar Castle	Villmar	Hilltop castle	13th Century	Burgstall
Waldmannshausen Castle	Elbe Valley - Elbgrund	Castle house and manor	1486	School camp
Weilburg Castle	Weilburg	Residential palace of the Counts of Nassau-Weilburg	Baroque complex from 1701 to 1721 in place of the older castle complex	Castle museum, castle hotel, changing events

Marburg-Biedenkopf district

Existing on: January 15, 2018 | 70 in 66 items

Surname	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Allerburg (Dautphetal)	Dautphetal - Holzhausen	Spornburg, probably tower castle	High Middle Ages	Neck ditch remains, exact location unclear, possibly Hünstein
Amönau Castle	Weather - Amönau	lock	around 1500	T-shaped residential building with a mansard roof, private property "Rapunzel-Erker"
Amöneburg Castle	Amöneburg	Hilltop castle	1145	"OpenEyes-Filmfest" backdrop. The ruin is freely accessible.
Biedenkopf Castle	Biedenkopf	lock	after 1175, previous building unknown	Hinterland museum , restaurant / café
Blankenstein Castle	Gladenbach	Hilltop castle	around 1237	Remnants of the curtain wall
Bracht Hunting Lodge (Burg Bracht)	Rauschenberg - Bracht	Hunting lodge	House around 1280, Landgrave hunting lodge built on it in 1721 (1744), later only forestry office	preserved, private property
Breidenbach Castle	Breidenbach	Niederungsburg	1394	Nothing
Breidenstein Castle	Biedenkopf - Breidenstein	lock	1712-1714	Predecessor castle: sections of the curtain wall, castle preserved, expanded to include an Art Nouveau castle (villa)
Burgstall Brungershausen	Lahntal - Brungershausen	Niederungsburg	8th century	Burgstall, remains hidden in the ground
Buchenau Castle	Dautphetal - Buchenau	Spurburg	1210	Neck ditch
Bürgeln Castle ( Birgel )	Cölbe - Bürgeln	Niederungsburg	around 1358	Nothing
Caldern Castle	Lahntal - Caldern	Spurburg	probably 11th century	Foundations, remains of trenches
→ Christenberg (Kesterburg, Kestelburg)	Münchhausen - Christenberg	Höhenburg, ( early medieval Merovingian - Carolingian castle complex of the Franconian period )	around 700	Remains of the castle wall ruins, excavated gatehouse, eastern double wall, remains of ramparts in front of the castle, traces of settlement
Dörnberg Castle	Neustadt (Hesse)	Niederungsburg, later a castle	around 1270, 1477–1489 new building	Rectangular building with high, massive basement and half-timbered structure, town hall since 1952
Döringsburg	Biedenkopf	Castle seat of the von Döring (possibly only Burgmannenhaus)	before 1365 (year of first mention)	Burned down in 1635, not rebuilt, no remains
Ebsdorf Castle	Ebsdorfergrund - Ebsdorf	Hilltop castle	1054	Foundations
Eckelskirche Castle	Lahntal - Sterzhausen	Wallburg or just ring wall on the Wollenberg	not clear	Wall and moat remains
→ Elmshausen Manor	Dautphetal - Elmshausen	Manor	1586	Privately owned
Elnhausen Castle	Marburg - Elnhausen	Moated castle	13th century, demolished 1707–1717 and replaced by a new castle	Remains of the moat
Elnhausen Castle	Marburg - Elnhausen	lock	1707–1717, on the site of a demolished moated castle from the 13th century	Privately owned
Donkey castle	Lohra - Rollshausen	Hilltop castle	12th Century	Nothing
Etzgerode Castle	Neustadt (Hesse)	Niederungsburg	unknown, decayed at the end of the 14th century	Nothing
Fleckenbühl farm	Cölbe	Moated castle	1214	Manor on the site of a former moated castle, defense tower and remains of walls, old barn, manor house of the court estate, today an addiction prevention center: the Fleckenbühler
Forst Castle	Stadtallendorf (east of it in the desert forest )	Moated castle	1283	Moat, remains of walls
Frauenberg Castle	Ebsdorfergrund - Frauenberg	Hilltop castle	around 1252	Remains of the curtain wall, freely accessible ruins
Oberburg	Fronhausen	Moated castle	Late 13th century	Residential building, privately owned
Lower castle	Fronhausen	Moated castle, later a castle	1367	Palace construction, private property
Germershausen	Oberweimar	formerly noble manor	documented in 1324	agricultural estate with manor house; Privately owned
Goßfelden Castle	Lahntal - Goßfelden	Niederungsburg	1235	Nothing
Burgstall Hatzbach	Stadtallendorf - Hatzbach	Kleinburg, presumably the Knoblauch zu Hatzbach family , Ziegenhainer fief	probably 14th century	nothing to guess at the remains of a trench
Yards	Ebsdorfergrund - Dreihausen	Spurburg	8/9 Century ( Carolingian period )	Elevations, excavated and partially reconstructed remains of the foundation wall ( stone house , church, remains of cellars, remains of a circular wall)
Hohenfels Castle	Dautphetal - Allendorf	Hilltop castle	around 1174	Basement, small remains of the wall
Hollende Castle (Hohenlinden)	Wetter (Hessen) - Warzenbach	Hilltop castle	10th or 11th century	Foundation walls, trenches
Hunburg (Betziesdorf)	Kirchhain - Betziesdorf	Moated castle	probably 12th century	flat mound of earth
Hunburg (Burgholz)	Kirchhain - Burgholz	Spurburg	8th century	Ramparts, ditches
Hundsbach Castle	Rauschenberg	Niederungsburg	1332	small remains of the wall, wall
Hunsgeweide Castle Husgeweide	Amöneburg - Rüdigheim	Moated castle	12th Century	Remains of the enclosing ditches and ramparts, remains of the foundations of the cellar and well
Kassenburg	Marburg	Castle	1234	Nothing
Katzenbach hunting lodge	Biedenkopf - Katzenbach	Hunting lodge	around 1660	Wall remains,
Kirchhain Castle	Kirchhain	Hilltop castle	1344	Nothing
Leiterstädt Castle	Kirchhain - Langenstain	Moated castle	12th or 13th century, mentioned in 1282	Nothing
Lueneburg (Mellnau)	Wetter (Hessen) - Mellnau	Spurburg	unknown, presumed 11th to 12th century	Remnants of foundations, walls
Lützelburg (Christenberg)	Munchausen	Ring wall from the Hallstatt period , early medieval use unclear	Hallstatt period until before the 10th century	Pit, ditch, wall
Landgrave Castle Marburg	Marburg	lock	11./12. Century, 15./16. Century new building	University Museum for Cultural History, central memorial and information center for Hessian history
Mellnau Castle	Wetter (Hessen) - Mellnau	Hilltop castle	around 1250	Enclosing walls, keep, freely accessible ruins
Momberg Castle	Neustadt (Hessen) - Momberg	Niederungsburg	1236	Nothing
Naumburg Castle	Gladenbach	Höhenburg presumably as Turmhügelburg created	12./14. Century	Ring wall and moat
Nellenburg	Neustadt (Hesse)	Hilltop castle	13th Century	Wall remains
Neu-Dernbach Castle	Bad Endbach - Dernbach	Hilltop castle	around 1350	Remains of two corner towers and of the western, eastern and southern castle walls
Yard net	Kirchhain - Langenstein	Moated castle, built on the desert	1480	Remnants of foundations, trenches, vanished manor house
Niederasphe Castle	Münchhausen - Niederasphe	Niederungsburg	14th Century	Nothing
Niederklein Castle	Stadtallendorf - Niederklein	Niederungsburg	Mentioned in 1407	Nothing
Offenhausen Castle	Lohra	Moated castle	around 1234	Nothing
Plausdorf Castle	Amöneburg	lock	16th century, extensive expansion 1901–1914	Private property, well preserved
Radenhausen Castle	Amöneburg	Moated castle	11./12. century	Nothing
Rauischer Hof	Ebsdorfergrund - Rauischholzhausen	late Gothic manor house	1st half of the 16th century	Three-storey half-timbered building with corner turrets, owned by the University of Giessen
Rauischholzhausen Castle	Ebsdorfergrund - Rauischholzhausen	lock	1873	Conference site of the Justus Liebig University in Giessen
Rauschenberg Castle	Rauschenberg	Hilltop castle	11./12. century	Expanded into a castle from 1594–1597, destroyed in 1646; Ruin accessible
Burgmannenhaus Rauschenberg	Rauschenberg	Burgmannshof	around 1600	Residence of various ministerials, privately owned since 1812
Rickelskopf Castle	Weimar (Lahn) - Stedebach	Hilltop castle	around 800	Wall and neck ditch remains
Röderburg	Ebsdorfergrund - Roßberg	Moated castle	13th century (possibly as early as 800)	small remains of walls, moat
Schönstadt Castle	Cölbe - Schönstadt	lock	1344, 1618 new building	Palace complex on the site of a moated castle, private property
Schweinsberg Castle (Hesse)	Stadtallendorf - Schweinsberg	Hilltop castle	1231-1234	Condominiums
Seelbach Castle	Lohra - Seelbach	Hilltop castle	around 800	small residues
Stedebach Castle	Weimar (Lahn) - Stedebach	Niederungsburg (Motte)	before 13th century	Nothing
Stedebach moated castle	Weimar (Lahn) - Stedebach	Moated castle	15th century	Remains of the outer lining wall of the castle pond
Trugelrode Castle	Neustadt (Hesse)	Hilltop castle	Mentioned in 1248	small remains of the wall
Gun sand castle	Stadtallendorf - Niederklein	Höhenburg ( rock castle )	12th Century	Walls, remains of walls
Weissenstein Castle	Marburg - Wehrda	Hilltop castle	8/9 century	Wall remains
Wenigenburg	Amöneburg	Hilltop castle	2nd half of the 12th century	Parts of the building, two cellars, remains of the tower, parts of the curtain wall

Vogelsbergkreis

Last date: May 20, 2016 | 34 in 33 items

Surname	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Old castle	Bulkheads	Moated castle	around 1000	New half-timbered building, moat, gate area preserved
Altenburg Castle (Riedesel Castle)	Alsfeld - Altenburg	lock	Beginning of the 12th century, new building in the middle of the 18th century	Private property (the Barons Riedesel )
Angenrod moated castle	Alsfeld - Angenrod	Moated castle	13th century, mid-15th century noble estate, 1645 castle house in Angenrod	Owned by the Alsfeld construction and settlement cooperative since 1989 , expanded for apartments, private
Angersbach Castle Stables	Wartenberg - Angersbach	Niederungsburg	before 1232	Foundations built over
Berleburg Castle (Villa Wittgenstein)	slot	Castle-like modern mansion	1859	preserved in private ownership
Burghaus Breungeshain	Scots - Breungeshain	Moated castle	Mentioned in 1314	departed
Burg-Gemünden Castle	Gemünden - Burg-Gemünden	Hilltop castle	13th century (first mentioned in 1274)	Preserved restored, privately owned
Eisenbach Castle	Lauterbach	lock	New building in 1217, 16th century	Renaissance complex, mighty pentagonal keep, restaurant
Eppstein Castle	Bulkheads	lock	after 1323	Building with stepped gables
Freiensteinau Castle	Freiensteinau	Castle (emerged from a mansion on a noble estate)	1688, at the beginning of the 19th century expansion into a country palace	Country castle in private ownership
Grebenau moated castle	Grebenau	Moated castle	13th Century	today town hall
Hallenburg Castle	slot	lock	1755	Baroque two-and-a-half-storey building, Landesmusikakademie
Hinterburg	slot	Höhenburg, in local position	13th century, 16th century reconstruction	retirement home
Hohhaus Castle	Lauterbach	City Palace	around 1700	preserved, seat of the Hohhaus-Museum-Lauterbach
Homberg Castle	Homberg (Ohm)	Hilltop castle	11th century, documented in 1065	Palace complex with remains of the old castle, owned by the town of Homberg / Ohm
Castle Lauterbach (Lauterbach Castle)	Lauterbach	Castle, emerged from the castle	around 1266	Receive
Lehrbach Castle	Kirtorf - Lehrbach	Moated castle	around 1180	Ruins of the Palas with stepped gable and remains of a fireplace, surrounding wall
Merlau Castle	Mücke - Merlau	Moated castle, later a castle	Mentioned in 1279	Burgstall, remains of the castle's foundation wall
Naxburg	Freiensteinau	Hilltop castle	around 1290	small remains of the wall
Burgstall Nieder-Ohmen	Mücke - Nieder-Ohmen	Niederungsburg	10th century	Tower foundations
Castle Niederschlitz (Burgscheidel)	slot	moth	12th Century	Castle stable with remaining hill
Ottoburg	slot	lock	1653-1681	Count's archives and house museum
→ Petershain Castle	Ulrichstein - Kölzenhain	Moated castle	before or in the 13th century	Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse and his sons were already destroyed in the inheritance disputes in 1293 , presumably underground. Remnants, today built over with Petershainer Hof
Romrod Castle	Romrod	lock	1st half of the 12th century, 1578–1587 converted into a renaissance castle	Hotel, restaurant, owned by the German Foundation for Monument Protection
Ruhlkirchen Castle Hill	Drift Valley	Moated castle	around 1100	Restored castle hill with remains of a curtain wall
Schachtenburg	slot	lock	Reconstruction in 1557, 1st half of the 17th century	retirement home
Seeburg Castle (Hartershausen Castle, Old Wall)	Schlitz - Hartershausen	Moated castle	around 1200	Remains of the residential tower
Sickendorf Castle	Lauterbach - Sickendorf	lock	1886-87	receive
Schmitthof Castle	Kirtorf - Lehrbach	Moated castle	1538	Privately owned
Stockhausen Castle	Herbstein - Stockhausen	Riedesel's castle on the remains of its predecessor: the Hermannsburg	1770–1807 (16th century castle)	Castle in private hands
Ulrichstein Castle	Ulrichstein	Hilltop castle	12th Century	Corner tower, trenches, ramparts
Vorderburg	slot	Hilltop castle	1565 reconstruction	Hotel Restaurant
Wartenberg castle ruins	Wartenberg - Angersbach	Spurburg	around 1220	Foundation walls of the keep and hall
Zwiefalten hunting lodge	Scots - Acorn Saxons	Hunting lodge	1722-23	received, official seat

Kassel administrative district (North Hesse)

kassel

Status on: October 20, 2019 | 16 in 15 articles

Surname	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Bellevue Palace	kassel	lock	1714	Only a small palace has been preserved, use is still open, currently being renovated
Chattenburg	kassel	lock	1817-1821	Construction abandoned unfinished in 1821, remnants removed from 1840–1870
Palais Hessen-Rotenburg	kassel	Castle, city residence	1767-1769	Canceled in 1911
Löwenburg	kassel	Pleasure palace (artificial castle ruin)	1793-1800	Castle Museum
Burgstall Niederzwehren	Kassel - Niederzwehren	Niederungsburg	probably 13th century	no leftovers
Nordshausen Castle	Kassel - Nordshausen	Hilltop castle	unclear, probably before 1317	no leftovers
Orangery	kassel	lock	1703-1710	Seat of the Astronomical-Physical Cabinet with a planetarium
Residenzpalais	kassel	Palace complex, residence (parts of the Red and White Palais , among others )	1769-1826	Built-in remains
Reichenbach Palace	kassel	lock	1772	Nothing, demolished in 2006 for commercial and office buildings
Red Palace	kassel	Residential palace	1821-1826	Destroyed in World War II, ruin demolished 1954–1960; only portico preserved, as an extension to a department store in the same place
Schönfeld Castle	kassel	Castle, summer residence	1777	In 1989 the Verein Schloss Schönfeld e. V. the buildings, "Restaurant Park Schönfeld"
City Palace of Kassel	kassel	Residential palace	1556-1562	Destroyed by fire in 1811, demolished in 1816; only the roundabout on the Fulda is still preserved
Palais Waitz von Eschen	kassel	City Palace	1770-1773	Destroyed in a bombing raid in 1943
Waldau moated castle	Kassel - Waldau	Moated castle	around 1463	southern defensive wall with two round corner towers
White palace	kassel	Residential palace	1769; Expanded 1815–1821	Destroyed by air raid in 1943, demolished in 1948–1950
Wilhelmshöhe Castle	kassel	lock	1606-1610	Museums, exhibitions, state museums in Hessen

District of Fulda

Existing on: January 15, 2018 | 35 in 23 articles

Surname	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Altenstein Palace	Fulda	City Palace	1701-1704	Baroque palace, later rebuilt in rococo form, preserved, offices of the city of Fulda
Alt-Mackenzell Castle	Hünfeld - Mackenzell	Hilltop castle	12th Century	departed
Anberg Castle	Kalbach - Uttrichshausen	Niederungsburg	Called in 1392	departed
Auersburg ruins	Hilders	Hillside castle	1120 (or earlier)	Remnants of the tower, ramparts and moats, surrounding walls
Bieberstein Castle	Hofbieber	lock	1710-1740	Boarding school
Blankenwald Castle	Hosenfeld - Blankenau	Hilltop castle	13th Century	Castle stable with small remains
Buchenau Castle (Schenck Castle )	Eiterfeld - Buchenau	lock	1550, 1694 new building	Privately owned since 2001, group house with 110 beds
Buchenau old castle	Eiterfeld - Buchenau	Niederungsburg	1217	Five-story residential tower, neck ditch, two multi-story half-timbered buildings from the Renaissance; later divided into: former outer bailey → mirror lock and former main castle → Seckendorff lock
Burghaun hunting lodge	Burghaun	Hunting lodge	1744	Hunting lodge of the Fulda abbot Amand von Buseck . Expropriated in 1803, forestry office since 1868.
Burghaun Castle	Burghaun	lock	1613-1619	Castle of the Knights of Haun and von Schenk, 1692–1803 Fürstlich-Fuldisches Rentamt, 1866–1932 District Court, since then municipal administration.
Ebersburg ruins	Ebersburg	Hilltop castle	around 1100	Keep, enclosing walls
Eberstein ruins (Tannenfels Castle)	Hilders	Hilltop castle	1220/50	small remains of foundations and walls
Eichenzeller Schlösschen	Oak cell	lock	around 1250/1260, 1548 new building	Seat of the municipal administration
Fasanerie Castle	Oak cell	lock	1730	Baroque complex with five courtyards one behind the other, central pavilion, castle museum, restaurant
Fulda City Palace	Fulda	lock	1706-1714 / 20	City administration, visit to historical interior and representative rooms
Fürsteneck Castle	Pus field	Hilltop castle	around 1200	Castle-like converted facility, academy for professional and musical-cultural training
Baroque Gersfeld Castle (Lower Castle)	Gersfeld (Rhoen)	lock	1740	Former seat of the von Ebersberg family. In the possession of the von Waldthausen family since 1903, today library, local museum, city administration
Middle Gersfeld Castle	Gersfeld (Rhoen)	Moated castle	1560	former ruling court, prison. Owned by the von Waldthausen family since 1903, today apartments
Upper Gersfeld Castle	Gersfeld (Rhoen)	Moated castle, later moated castle	12th century, 1486–93 palace construction	In the possession of the von Waldthausen family since 1903, today apartments and doctor's office
Park villa Gersfeld	Gersfeld (Rhoen)	lock	1908	Built by Bruno von Waldthausen. Schlosspark Clinic since 1995
Giesel hunting lodge	Neuhof - Giesel	Wasserburg, new building as a hunting lodge	1340 (1717)	rectangular building in place of an earlier moated castle, private property
Haselstein castle ruins	Nüsttal	Hilltop castle	11th century	small remains of the wall
Haselstein Castle	Nüsttal	lock	1546	simple baroque building with stair tower
Propsteischloss Johannesberg	Fulda	Castle and Church	811-830	Initially a monastery complex, 1726–1747 expansion into a baroque palace (Red House); today the Hessian state domain, in the Schlosshof restaurant.
Klinge Castle ( Siglindisburg )	Hünfeld - Mackenzell	Spurburg	probably 11th century	Castle stable, neck ditch, curtain wall and remains of the foundation are visible
→ Mackenzell moated castle	Hünfeld - Mackenzell	Moated castle	1253	Sanatorium of the Good Templars
Milseburg Castle	Hofbieber - small people	Hilltop castle	11th century	small remains (tower, remains of a ring wall)
Neuhof Castle	Neuhof	lock	1239, early 16th century	four round corner towers, low parts of the surrounding walls, today a school
Burgstall Poppenhausen	Poppenhausen	Moated castle	13th Century	Overbuilt cellar and built-in wall remains
→ Seckendorff lock	Eiterfeld - Buchenau	lock	Castle renovation around 1578	Two residential towers that go back to the medieval Buchenau Castle
→ Mirror lock	Eiterfeld - Buchenau	lock	Palace construction around 1572	Two-wing palace in the Renaissance style on the site of the former Buchenau Castle, next to the Seckendorff Palace
Schwedenschanze	Gersfeld (Rhön) - Rengersfeld ( Reesberg )	Jump	Thirty Years' War	Ramparts
Tann Castle	Fir	lock	1558 (Red Castle), 1669/1714 (Yellow Castle), early 18th century (Blue Castle)	largely closed four-wing construction
Uttrichshausen Castle	Kalbach - Uttrichshausen	Niederungsburg	12th to 13th centuries	departed
Burgstall Weyhers	Ebersburg - Weyhers	Moated castle	First mentioned in 1270	no leftovers

District of Hersfeld-Rotenburg

Existing on: March 23, 2017 | 39 in 33 articles

Surname	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Altwehrda castle ruins	Haunetal - Wehrda	Niederungsburg	around 1185	Castle hill, small remains of the outer walls
→ Blue Castle (Unterhof)	Hohenroda - Mansbach	lock	1820	two-winged building with roof turrets
Blumenstein Hunting Lodge	Wildeck - Raßdorf	Hunting lodge	1727	Little remains of buildings, a cellar on the north side, archway, was the successor to Wildeck Castle
Blumenstein summer palace	Wildeck - Raßdorf	lock	1770	Former guest house, successor to the Blumenstein hunting lodge
Dreienburg castle ruins	Friedewald	Spurburg	around 1257	Remnants of the foundation, neck ditch
Eichhof Castle	Bad Hersfeld	lock	expanded to a palace complex around 1572	Residential tower, state teaching and research institute for grassland farming and forage production
Eulenburg	Hohenroda - Mansbach	Niederungsburg	before 1280	Destroyed in 1280, rebuilt as the ancestral seat of the Knights of Mansbach in the 14th and 15th centuries. 1935 new building. Today residential building.
Friedewald moated castle	Friedewald	Moated castle	1476	Local history museum, castle hotel in the outer bailey
Yellow Wehrda Castle	Haunetal - Wehrda	lock	17th century	Horseshoe-shaped baroque building with a mansard roof
Geyso Castle (Wilhelmsburg)	Hohenroda - Mansbach	lock	1577-1578	Rectangular building with high, curved gables and an octagonal stair tower, local history museum
Grasburg	Hohenroda - Mansbach	Höhenburg, presumably only Fliehburg	probably eighth century	Ramparts and moats on the mountain of the same name
Hattenbach Castle	Niederaula - Hattenbach	Spurburg	around 1235	Residential building
Hauneck Castle	Haunetal - Oberstoppel	Hilltop castle	around 1200	Hall, keep, remains of walls
Herzberg Castle	Breitenbach a. Herzberg	Hilltop castle	1280 and 1290	Stronghold, chapel
→ Hohenwehrda Castle	Haunetal - Wehrda	lock	around 1900	Herman-Lietz School
Hohenroda Castle	Hohenroda - Oberbreitzbach	lock	1909	Manor house with palace gardens, town hall
Holzheim Castle (thick tower)	Haunetal - Holzheim	Niederungsburg	12th Century	Stone residential tower, today a private residential complex
Holzheim hunting lodge	Haunetal - Holzheim	Hunting lodge	15th century	today residential building
Hornsberg Castle	Herring (Werra)	Spurburg	First mentioned in 1214	already abandoned and dilapidated at the end of the 15th century
→ Imshausen Castle	Bebra - Imshausen	lock	1791	Right side building conference and meeting center, left side building privately owned
Landeck castle ruins	Schenklengsfeld	Spurburg	Late 12th century	Neck ditch, remains of walls, remains of retaining walls,
Old Lispenhausen Castle	Rotenburg on the Fulda - Lispenhausen	Niederungsburg	unknown	Burgstall, no relics preserved
Lispenhausen moated castle	Rotenburg on the Fulda - Lispenhausen	Moated castle	13th Century	Residential building
Ludwigseck Palace	Ludwigsau	lock	around 1400, new building in 1858	Privately owned
Milnrode castle ruins	Bad Hersfeld	Spurburg	12th Century	Round tower remains, foundation walls of the upper castle
Neuenstein Castle	Neuenstein - Saasen	Höhenburg, later a new palace	around 1250	Conference and event center
Upper Castle (Unterhof)	Hohenroda - Mansbach	lock	1561	Former post office. Rebuilt 1935–1945. Vacancy today.
Philippsthal Castle	Philippsthal (Werra)	lock	1685	Palace complex with integrated church, palace park, town hall, restaurant, museum
Richelsdorf manor house	Wildeck - Richelsdorf	Mansion	1598-1600	Completely preserved; today the seat of a specialist clinic
Rittershain Castle	Cornberg	lock	1854	Association for the promotion of research and training in the field of plant breeding
Rodenberg castle ruins	Rotenburg on the Fulda	Hilltop castle	around 1150	Trenches, small remains of walls, ramparts, freely accessible ruins
Rotenburg Castle	Rotenburg on the Fulda	lock	1571-1607	Headquarters of the training center of the Hessian road and traffic administration
Red lock	Haunetal - Wehrda	lock	17th century	Building with a round stair tower and half-timbered upper floor
Schwarzenhasel moated castle	Rotenburg an der Fulda - Schwarzenhasel	Moated castle	around 1600	Patronage and residential house, moats
Sinzigburg	Haunetal - Rhina	Niederungsburg, moth	early medieval, documented in 1409/1460	Ramparts, trenches
Alt-Tannenburg	Nentershausen	Spurburg	probably around 1000	Moat
Tannenberg Castle	Nentershausen (on the Herzberg )	Spurburg	around 1300	Spornburg, medieval castle complex with an inn and beer garden
Burgstall Wallenfels	Niederaula - Mengshausen	Spurburg	before 1327	Neck ditch and remains of the foundation
Wildeck Castle	Wildeck - Raßdorf	Spurburg	in the 11th century	Wildeck Castle was built over by the Blumenstein hunting lodge. The remains of the wall therefore mostly do not come from the Middle Ages

District of Kassel

Last date: September 25, 2019 | 51 in 50 articles

Surname	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
→ Ahlberg ring wall	Immenhausen - Mariendorf	Wallburg, tower hill	Early middle ages	Wall and moat clearly visible, remains of the late medieval watchtower foundation have been preserved.
Beberbeck Castle	Hofgeismar - Beberbeck	lock	1829	Hunting lodge Wilhelm II of Hessen-Kassel, since 1929 nursing home
Burgstall Beltershausen	Naumburg - Altendorf	Niederungsburg	before or in the 1st half of the 15th century	Burgstall (castle hill and weak moat remains)
Burgstall Blumenstein	Zierenberg	Niederungsburg	1213	Nothing
Gut Bodenhausen	Habichtswald - Ehlen	Mansion	1660, gatehouse from 1649	Three-storey half-timbered building, private property
Burguffeln Castle	Grebenstein - Burguffeln	Niederungsburg	9th century	later state domain , since 2000 handicapped accessible residential complex; Remains of the castle walls have been preserved
Elberberg Castle	Naumburg - Elbenberg	lock	15th century new building, 16th century new building	Privately owned by Buttlar , seat of the private forest administration of Buttlar-Elberberg
Elmarshausen moated castle	Wolfhagen - Elmarshausen	Moated castle	13th Century	Not inhabited, private property
Escheberg Castle	Zierenberg - Escheberg	lock	19th century	Privately owned by the Malsburg
Falkenberg castle ruins	Zierenberg	Hilltop castle	Mid 13th century	Wall and moat remains
Falkenstein castle ruins	Bad Emstal - sand	Hilltop castle	1346	some remains of the wall, remains of the moat and ramparts
Gasterfeld Castle	Wolfhagen	Niederungsburg	around 1100	Nothing
Gieselwerder Castle	Wesertal - Gieselwerder	Moated castle	1093	Gate, substructure of a semicircular tower, remains of the surrounding wall
Grebenstein Castle	Grebenstein	Hilltop castle	around 1272	Wall remains, hall
Grossenritt hunting lodge	Baunatal - Great Rides	Hunting lodge	1866	only shell completed, used as a nursing home from 1877, demolished in 1972
Wallburg Great Ride	Baunatal - Great Rides	Wallburg	Hallstatt period, Celtic	Wall remains present
Großer Gudenberg castle ruins	Zierenberg	Hilltop castle	1209	Ramparts, ditches, small remains of walls
Kleiner Gudenberg castle ruins	Zierenberg	Hilltop castle	1175	Ramparts, ditches, small remains of walls
Haldessen Castle	Grebenstein	Niederungsburg	around 1303	Nothing
Helfenberg castle ruins	Wolfhagen	Hilltop castle	Early 13th century	Ditches, walls
Igelsburg castle ruins	Habichtswald - Dörnberg	Hilltop castle	772–804, around 1100? (Data contradicting)	Castle stable with neck ditch and rampart
Immenhausen Castle	Immenhausen	Spurburg	13th Century	exposed foundations
Burgstall Knickhagen	Fuldatal - Knickhagen	Hilltop castle	probably 8th to 10th century	Wall and moat remains, today a cemetery
Krukenburg	Bad Karlshafen - Helmarshausen	Hilltop castle	1215-1520	Keep, ruins of the round church, ruins of the residential tower, enclosing walls
Ringwall Laar	Zierenberg - Laar	Spurburg	9th century	Wall remains
Laar Castle	Zierenberg - Laar	lock	1790	Mansion
Liebenau Castle	Liebenau	Mansion	around 1293	Manor from 1600
Malsburg castle ruins	Zierenberg	Hilltop castle	before 1123	Remnants of a tower, remains of a wall
Junkernhof Meimbressen (Meimbressen Castle)	Calden - Meimbressen	Wasserburg, rebuilding as a manor	Castle: first documented mention 13th century, manor with manor house 1659–67	Privately owned
Nightingale Castle	Wolfhagen - Viesebeck	Niederungsburg	1204	Ring wall
Naumburg Castle	Naumburg	Hilltop castle	12th Century	small residues
Riede Castle	Bad Emstal - Riede	lock	1563–64 conversion to a renaissance castle	Privately owned
Rodersen castle ruins	Wolfhagen	Hilltop castle	around 1180/1200	Foundation of the square residential tower, remains of the wall, neck ditch
Sababurg	Hofgeismar	Hilltop castle	1334	partially preserved castle, hotel and restaurant; animal park founded in 1571 to the west
Schartenberg castle ruins (Groppeschloss)	Zierenberg	Hilltop castle	1124	Neck moat, ring and retaining wall remains, part of the keep
Schauenburg castle ruins	Schauenburg	Hilltop castle	1089 "Scouwenburg"	ring-shaped trench, wall remains
Schöneberg castle ruins	Hofgeismar - Schöneberg	Hilltop castle	1122	restored castle fountain, otherwise hardly any remains of the castle complex
Schönburg Castle	Hofgeismar	lock	1787-1790	Conference center Evangelical Academy Hofgeismar
Sensenstein Castle	Sneezes	Hilltop castle	around 1372	Moats visible; Youth castle
Gut Sieberhausen	Zierenberg	Mansion	1800, 17th century gatehouse	Two-storey plastered half-timbered building, private property
Castle Tribes	Trendelburg - Tribe	Manor house of a manor	1766–1771, 1910 addition of a portico	Retirement home, private property
Stenderberg Castle	Liebenau - Ostheim	Hilltop castle	not clear	Burgstall, remains of the foundation archaeologically examined
Trendelburg Castle	Trendelburg	Spurburg	13th Century	Hotel and restaurant
Old Veckerhagen Castle	Reinhardshagen - Veckerhagen	Niederungsburg	1430/1431	Destroyed by major fires in 1914 and 1967. Remnants of the wall used to rebuild a factory
Veckerhagen hunting lodge	Reinhardshagen - Veckerhagen	Hunting lodge	around 1689	Establishment of a factory administration in the 19th century, privately owned
Weidelsburg	Wolfhagen - Ippinghausen	Hilltop castle	1273	Outer bailey, two residential towers, curtain wall
Wilhelmsthal Castle	Calden	lock	1744-1761	Castle museum, extensive park
Windhausen Castle → Germanic Garden	Niestetal - Heiligenrode	lock	1769-1770	Privately owned
Wolfhagen Castle	Wolfhagen	Höhenburg, in local position	around 1230 to 1231	Castle remnants
Wülmersen moated castle	Trendelburg	Moated castle, manor	1612 new building, 1108 (former manor)	Residential house with half-timbered superstructure, state museum
Ziegenberg Castle	Fulda Valley - Wilhelmshausen	Hilltop castle	probably 11th century	no remains, overbuilt

Schwalm-Eder district

Existing date: September 23, 2019 | 65 in 63 items

Surname	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Altenburg castle ruins	Felsberg - Altenburg	Hilltop castle	11th century	Keep, remains of buildings, some cellars, enclosing walls with a circular corner
Altenburg	Niedenstein	Wallburg	1st century BC Chr.	Wall and moat remains
Bellnhausen castle ruins	Gilserberg - Bellnhausen	Moated castle	13th Century	small remains of walls and ditches
Bertherode Castle	Melsungen	Hilltop castle	unknown	no leftovers
Betzigerode mansion	Bad Zwesten - Betzigerode	Niederungsburg	16th Century	Two-storey, plastered half-timbered building; Privately owned
Binsförth Castle	Morschen - Binsförth	Niederungsburg	probably 1st half of the 13th century	Remnants of the wall in today's Hofgut
Bischhausen Castle	Neuental - Bischhausen	Talburg	First mentioned in 1160	Burgstall
Borken Castle	Bark	Hilltop castle	First mentioned in 1269	Burgstall
Buraburg	Fritzlar - Unthoughts (on the Büraberg )	Hilltop castle	around 680	small remains of the wall
Stick	Schrecksbach - Röllshausen	moth	uncertain, abandoned in the 13th century	Castle hill, rampart, moat
Densberg castle ruins	Jesberg - Densberg	Hilltop castle	1085	Neck ditch, wall remains, ring wall
Dillich Castle	Borken - Dillich	lock	around 1360	Privately owned, three-storey massive rectangular building
Falkenberg ruins	Wabern - Falkenberg	Hilltop castle	Mid 13th century	Bergfriedrest, enclosing walls
Falkenberg Castle	Wabern - Falkenberg	lock	1560-1778	Residential buildings with tower, parts of the bastions
Rock castle	Felsberg	Hilltop castle	11th century	Keep, enclosing walls, kennel walls
Forkenburg	Fritzlar - weirs	Wallburg	9-10 century	Wall and moat remains
Garvensburg Castle	Fritzlar - Züschen	lock	First mentioned in the 16th century (Lords of Meysenburg), new building from 1894–98	Café, hotel, restaurant
Mittelhof Gilsa	Neuental - Gilsa	Originally moated castle, rebuilt in 1635 after being destroyed in the Thirty Years' War as a manor , former ancestral castle of those from and to Gilsa	Mid 15th century	massive south wing, foundations of the SW corner tower and east wing with half-timbered upper floor; Private property, not open to the public
Oberhof Gilsa (Gilsa Castle)	Neuental - Gilsa	Manor house, headquarters of the branch " Gilsa -Oberhof"	16th Century	Castle-like mansion with park
Gilsa lower courtyard	Neuental - Gilsa	Manor house of the estate of the branch " Gilsa -Uunterhof"	around 1700	Half-timbered mansion with a dwelling in the central axis, with private cemetery for those from and to Gilsa
Castle Grifte	Edermünde - handles	Hillside castle	before 1258	Wall remains
Großropperhausen Castle	Frielendorf - Großropperhausen	castle-like mansion	1832	receive
Hausen Castle	Oberaula - Hausen	Moated castle, later a castle	before 1311	Private ownership, castle structure preserved
Hattenbachscher Burgsitz (castle seat of those of Romrod) (Helmschwerdtsche Castle)	Schrecksbach	Niederungsburg	1569	no leftovers
→ Haydau Castle	Morschen - Old Morschen	lock	16th century new building	strictly symmetrical layout around the former cloister
Heiligenburg Castle	Felsberg - Gensungen	Hilltop castle	1180-1186	Tower stump, remains of the shield wall and gate construction
Heimburg Castle Stables (Raubenburg, Rabsburgk)	Gilserberg - Heimbach	Höhenburg, probably built on an even older Fliehburg	presumably late Carolingian	Burgstall, only remnants of ramparts and moats
Hesserode moated castle	Felsberg - Hesserode	Moated castle	around 1300	Remains of the moat; Manor from 1665
Hohenburg	Homberg (Efze)	Hilltop castle	before 1190	Ring wall, kennel, gate
Hundshausen Castle	Jesberg - Hundshausen	Moated castle	10th century	Nothing
Jesberg Castle	Jesberg	Hilltop castle	Late 12th century	Keep, remains of the wall
Jesberg Castle	Jesberg	lock	1723	Community library, function room
Kalbsburg	Borken - Großenenglis	Watch tower , later manor with manor house	1197	Privately owned
Kehrenbach Hunting Lodge	Melsungen - Kehrenbach	Hunting lodge	1469/1470	Nothing
Landsburg	Schwalmstadt - Michelsberg	Hilltop castle	1345	completely removed by quarry
Lembach mansion	Homberg (Efze) - Lembach	Mansion	1606	Nothing
Lembach moated castle	Homberg (Efze) - Lembach	Moated castle	13th Century	Ponds as trench remains
Lenderscheid mansion	Frielendorf - Lenderscheid	Mansion	18th century	receive
Linsingen Castle	Lentil singing	Niederungsburg	11th or 12th century	Nothing
Loshausen Castle	Willingshausen - Loshausen	Mansion	1891	receive
Löwenstein castle ruins	Bad Zwesten - Schiffelborn	Hilltop castle	Early 13th century	Keep, remains of the cellar vaults, the building walls, the rampart and the moat
Melsungen Castle	Melsungen	lock	1550-1557	Tax office of the Schwalm-Eder district and a court
Nassenerfurth Castle (Baumbach Castle)	Borken - Nassenerfurth	Moated castle	around 1600	Castle, trenches, farm buildings; Privately owned
Niedenstein Castle	Niedenstein	Hilltop castle	1160-1164	Nothing; Lookout tower built in 1931
Niederurff Castle	Bad Zwesten - Niederurff	Hilltop castle	11th and 12th centuries	Palas, tower remains, keep, wall remains, moat
Obernburg	Gudensberg	Hilltop castle	around 1061	Parts of the kennel walls, gate structures, remains of buildings, retaining walls
Oberurff Castle	Bad Zwesten - Oberurff	Castle-like fortified courtyard of Löwensteiner Ganerbe	unknown	only the remains of a moat survived, all medieval remains including the surrounding wall with corner towers torn down, 18th century manor house with park and outbuildings, private property
Oberurff Castle (Hanau Castle)	Bad Zwesten - Oberurff	lock	1877	Youth Village Christophorus School of the Christian Youth Village Association Germany
Odenberg ring ramparts	Gudensberg	Circular ramparts	Early middle ages	Wall and moat remains from two plants
Ropperhausen Castle	Frielendorf - Großropperhausen	Spurburg	probably 13th century	Part of the residential tower, parts of the surrounding wall, neck ditch in the east preserved; freely accessible castle ruins
Rommershausen Castle	Rommershausen	lock	1539-1549	Three buildings with half-timbered upper storeys, irregular courtyard, east wing main building with portal, private property
Altes Burghaus Schrecksbach (Old Castle) (Langenstein Castle Seat)	Schrecksbach	Niederungsburg	1580-1592	received, restaurant
Schleierscher castle seat (Baumbachscher Hof)	Schrecksbach	Niederungsburg	Mentioned in 1569	no leftovers
Castle ruin Schönstein	Gilserberg - Schönau	Spurburg	12th Century	Castle ruins
Schwertzellsch castle seat	Schrecksbach	Niederungsburg	unknown	no leftovers
Spangenberg Castle	Spangenberg	lock	around 1214	Hotel, restaurant, hunting museum in the armory
Convict Head Castle	Bark	Hilltop castle	10th century	nothing received
Wallenstein castle ruins	Knüllwald - Wallenstein	Hilltop castle	around 1220	Enclosing wall, former stair tower as a lookout tower
Wabern hunting lodge	Wobble	Hunting lodge	1701-1704	Social Pedagogical Center Wabern / Homberg
Wenigenburg	Gudensberg	Hilltop castle	before 1272	nothing, today's buildings are from more recent times and are privately owned
Willingshausen Castle (Schwertzell Castle)	Willingshausen	Manor house as a castle-like Renaissance building	end of the 15th century at the latest, castle in the 16th century.	Received, estate management of the agricultural estates of the von Schwertzell family
Wolfershausen Castle	Felsberg - Wolfershausen	Niederungsburg	12th Century	small remains of the wall at the churchyard (?)
Ziegenhain Castle	Schwalmstadt - goat grove	Fortress / castle	Around 900, 1470 the castle was converted into a landgrave's castle, and the castle and town of Ziegenhain were surrounded by fortifications in the 17th century	the castle, in five wings grouped around a courtyard is, as since 1842 the prison used
Züschen Castle	Fritzlar - Züschen	Höhenburg, in local position	unknown (by the end of the 14th century at the latest)	Built over with an estate around 1600
Zwesten Castle	Bad Zwesten	lock	1782	fully preserved, today residential building and doctor's office

Waldeck-Frankenberg district

As of: March 30, 2020 | 87 in 83 articles

Surname	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Adorf Castle	Diemelsee - Adorf	Moated castle	13th Century	Center, small remains of the curtain wall
Arolsen residential palace	Bad Arolsen	Residential palace	1710–1728 based on the Versailles model	Preserved, museum, residence of the descendants of the royal family
Arolsen New Castle	Bad Arolsen	lock	1764-1778	Preserved after the major fire in 1970, reopened as a hotel in 1974, used as a clinic with a new extension since 1998
Aulesburg	Haina (monastery) - Löhlbach	Hilltop castle	1140	few wall remains, cross trenches
Castle by the oven	Vöhl - Schmittlotheim	Hilltop castle	8th century	Double moat
Old Battenberg Castle	Battenberg (Eder)	Spurburg	11th century	Wall remains, cellar
Battenberg Castle	Battenberg (Eder)	Hunting lodge	1732	City administration seat since 1971
Bergheim Castle	Edertal - Bergheim	lock	1692 instead of a castle	Preserved, extensively renovated in 1990, unused
Bilstein Castle	Bad Wildungen - Reitzenhagen ( Bilstein cliffs )	Hilltop castle	9th / 10th century	Dismissed in the 12th century, outer bailey on Bilstein cliffs, remains of moats
Braunsen Castle	Bad Arolsen - Braunsen	Niederungsburg	1223	Nothing
Castle Bring	Edertal - Bringhausen	Hilltop castle	First mentioned around 1196	Few wall remains, foundation walls, cellar remains are not visible when the Edersee is fully blocked
Brobeck Castle	Diemelstadt - Neudorf	Niederungsburg	1188	Nothing, lost castle
Buhlen Castle	Edertal - Buhlen	Niederungsburg	around 1333	Nothing, lost castle
Christiansburg Castle	Edertal - Kleinern	Residential palace	1662	Four-wing palace complex, nothing
Deisfeld Castle	Diemelsee - Deisfeld	Spurburg	early middle ages	Remains of two moats
Ehrenburg	Vöhl - Marienhagen	Hilltop castle	8th or 9th century, new building in 1354	Remains of the moat, keep and ramparts
Eifa Castle	Hatzfeld - Eifa	Spurburg	13th Century	Remnants of the neck ditch
→ Eilhausen Castle	Bad Arolsen - Eilhausen	lock	1537	Nothing
Eisenberg castle ruins	Korbach - Goldhausen	Hilltop castle	1345	1520 expansion to a castle, foundation walls preserved
Ellershausen moated castle	Frankenau - Ellershausen	Moated castle	Early 13th century	little remnant of the curtain wall, cellar
Esbeck Castle	Diemelsee - Adorf	Moated castle	First mentioned in 1255/56	Moat, wall remains of two buildings
Eschenbeck Castle	Lichtenfels - Goddelsheim	Hilltop castle	1270	Nothing
Fetzgesburg	Haina (monastery)	Hilltop castle	unknown	Wall and moat remains
Freienhagen Castle	Waldeck - Freienhagen	Niederungsburg	around 1251, first mentioned in 1354	Nothing
Confidence of friends castle	Hatzfeld	Hilltop castle	unknown	no leftovers mentioned
Friedrichstein Castle	Bad Wildungen	lock	1663	1693 Conversion of a castle into a baroque palace, museum, branch of the Hessian State Museum Kassel
Friedrichsthal hunting lodge	Waldeck - Selbach	Hunting lodge	1701	Residential house, private property
Fürstenberg Castle	Lichtenfels - Fürstenberg	Hilltop castle	13th Century	Nothing
Fürstenstein Castle	Volkmarsen - Lütersheim	Hilltop castle	1269	Basement foundation with entrance stairs
Geppenhagen Castle	Waldeck - Freienhagen	Tower castle	before 1150	boggy moat
Gershausen moated castle	Bad Wildungen - Braunau	Moated castle (expansion of a moated castle)	from 1692	Privately owned manor; Residential house, tower stump, moat preserved
Goddelsheim Castle	Lichtenfels - Goddelsheim	Moated castle	12th Century	Basement and gatehouse
Burgring Goddelsheim	Lichtenfels - Goddelsheim	Wallburg	2nd half of the 8th century	Spitzgraben and Wall
Grimmenstein Castle	Diemelsee - Vasbeck	Hilltop castle	12th Century	Nothing
Large house	Vöhl - Thalitter	Hunting lodge, seat of the mining authority	End of 17th century or beginning of 18th century	preserved, private property
Hartenstein Castle	Willingen - Eimelrod	Hilltop castle	1347	nothing, the castle only existed for a few years
Hatzfeld Castle	Hatzfeld (Eder)	Spurburg	13th Century	Parts of a shield wall, neck ditch, small remains of the wall, freely accessible ruins
Helmighausen Castle	Diemelstadt - Helmighausen	Moated castle	unknown, first mentioned in 1544	Minor trench remains
Hessenstein Castle	Vöhl - Ederbringhausen	Hilltop castle	1328-1342	Until October 31, 2007 youth hostel of the German Youth Hostel Association from April 1, 2008 youth hostel again
Höckelsburg	Vöhl - Thalitter (but closer to Herzhausen )	Spurburg	La Tène time	Remnants of the wall, freely accessible
Höhnscheid Castle	Bad Arolsen - Bühle	lock	1730 in place of an abolished monastery	received, hotel and conference center
Höringhausen moated castle	Waldeck - Höringhausen	Moated castle	before 1314, exact date unknown	Coat of arms stone
Ringwall Hünenkeller	Korbach - Lengefeld	Ring wall	8-10 century	elongated moat to the east, remains of the wall at the south entrance, ground monument
Hünselburg	Waldeck - Nieder-Werbe	Fliehburg	Late Latene period	Wall and moat remains
Huxhohl moated castle	Lichtenfels - Dalwigksthal	Moated castle	1335, first mentioned	no remains
Itterburg (one of the three Itterburgen )	Vöhl - Thalitter	Fortress	1126	Outer wall, tower remains, foundation walls
Jägersburg	Bad Wildungen - Odershausen	Hunting lodge	1718	nothing, exposed well (2006), natural monument
House fight	Lichtenfels - Dalwigksthal	Mansion	1593	Privately owned
Cellar castle	Battenberg (Eder)	Hilltop castle	around 1300	Remains of the surrounding walls, moat
Keseburg	Vöhl - Ederbringhausen	Hilltop castle	in the 11th century	Double moat and remains of the wall of the keep
Kleudelburg	Battenberg (Eder) - Dodenau	Hunting lodge	1721-1732	Cellar, well; 1770–1779 sold for demolition
Kugelsburg	Volkmarsen	Hilltop castle	Late 12th century	Residential tower from the 13th century, remains of the great hall , cellar
Landau Castle	Bad Arolsen - Landau	lock	around 1330	Today retirement home
Lauterbach farm	Vöhl - Lauterbach farm	lock	1661, complete renovation in 1817	Privately owned, farm and grain distillery
Lengefeld moated castle	Korbach - Lengefeld	Moated castle	1228	Manor house, remains of residential tower, privately owned
Lichtenfels Castle	Lichtenfels - Dalwigksthal	Höhenburg, later extension of the palace	1189	Privately owned
Burgstall Linne	Burgwald - Bottendorf - Linnermühle	moth	unknown	Remnants of the moth hill
→ Manor Malberg	Twist valley - Upper Waroldern	Moated castle	around 1347	nothing, between 1840 u. Canceled in 1860
Burgstall Mederike	Volkmarsen (desert Mederich )	Moated castle	1236	Nothing
Meineringhausen Castle	Korbach - Meineringhausen	Moated castle	around 1240 (?)	Nothing
Mengeringhausen Castle	Bad Arolsen - Mengeringhausen	Moated castle, later a castle	around 1388	three-storey building, remains of a residential tower in the middle of the building, private property
Mückenburg	Vöhl - Kirchlotheim / - Altenlotheim	Hilltop castle	10th century	two moat remains
Neu-Jägersdorf	Battenberg (Eder)	Hunting lodge	1703	Wall remains; today settlement
Nieder-Waroldern Castle	Twist valley - Nieder-Waroldern	Moated castle	around 1390	small remains of the foundation
Nordenbeck Castle	Korbach - Nordenbeck	Moated castle	13th century	Preserved tower, privately owned since 1790
Nuhn Castle	Lichtenfels - Sachsenberg	Hilltop castle	8th or 9th century	Burgstall: section trenches, wall trenches
Upper castle (one of the three Itter castles )	Vöhl - Obernburg	Hilltop castle	1058	Neck ditch, section ditch
Ober-Ense Castle	Korbach - Upper Ense	Moated castle	before 1350	Two corner towers, remains of the surrounding wall
Burgstall Panzenberg	Volkmarsen	Hilltop castle	13th Century	Burgstall of an unknown castle complex, double wall and moat system still visible
Reckenberg Castle	Lichtenfels - Fürstenberg	lock	15th century, mansion 1671	Private property (not open to the public)
Reckeringhausen Castle	Korbach - Meineringhausen	Moated castle, moth	12th Century	Nothing, lost castle
Older castle Rhena	Korbach - Rhena	Hilltop castle	around 1235	Nothing
Rhena moated castle	Korbach - Rhena	Moated castle	around 1555	two stone buildings, today a farm
Lusthaus Rhoden	Diemelstadt - Rhodes	Hunting lodge	around 1650	small remains of water art
Rhoden Castle	Diemelstadt - Rhodes	lock	1647-1654	Today retirement home
Schiffelbach castle ruins	Gemünden (Wohra) - Schiffelbach	Moated castle	around 1500, alterations around 1700	Small remains of walls, vaulted cellar
Schwalenburg	Willingen - Schwalefeld	Wallburg	8./10. century	Wall remains, arches of the inner and middle ring
Sehlen Castle	Gemünden (Wohra) - Sehlen	Heights and ramparts	suspected: Late Carolingian , finds from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages	Burgstall: tower hill, wall and moat remains
→ Selbach moated castle	Waldeck - Selbach	Moated castle	before 1229	Nothing, canceled in 1701
Steffenburg	Diemelsee - Adorf	Tower castle	Early 16th century, documented in 1507	nothing, demolished 18th century
Steuerburg (one of the three Itter castles )	Vöhl - Thalitter	Hilltop castle	probably 13th century	Foundation walls
Twiste Castle	Twiste Valley - Twiste	Moated castle	12th Century	Nothing
Vöhl Castle	Vöhl	lock	extended by 1385, 1663	Well, small remains of the wall (demolished in 1845)
Waldeck Castle	Waldeck - Waldeck	Höhenburg, later castle extension, temporarily residential castle	1120	Hotel and restaurant, museum
Wetterburg	Bad Arolsen - Wetterburg	Spurburg	1306	Restaurant, aquarium museum
Wolkersdorf Castle	Burgwald - Bottendorf	Moated castle	around 1250	Demolished in 1479, replaced by a new building for Wolkersdorf Palace; nothing received
Wolkersdorf hunting lodge	Burgwald - Bottendorf	Hunting lodge of the Hessian landgraves	1480-1484	1811–1813 Demolished by Jérôme Bonaparte's orders , only small remains of the walls and the castle pond remain

Werra-Meißner district

Status: December 13, 2019 | 41 in 37 Articles

Surname	place	Type	Time of origin	State of preservation and current use
Arnstein Castle	Neu-Eichenberg - Eichenberg	lock	12th century, mansion around 1600	Castle with a mansard roof, private property
Manor house Aue	Wanfried - Aue	Mansion	1576	completely preserved, private property
Aue moated castle	Wanfried - Aue	Moated castle	around 1000, mentioned around 1060	Cellar, built-in wall remains, dry moat,
→ Augustenau Castle	Herleshausen	lock	1539	Privately owned
Berlepsch Castle	Witzenhausen - Huebenthal	lock	1368	Private ownership, small three-wing complex, building group from Gothic and early Renaissance
Berneburg residential tower (Kemenate)	Sontra - Berneburg	Tower castle	around 1385	preserved, part of an agricultural property, private property, cultural monument
Bilstein Castle (Eschwege)	Eschwege - Albungen	Hilltop castle	around 1120	A few remains of the wall, traces of the cellar and former well
Gut Bischhausen (Castle Bischhausen)	Witzenhausen - Bischhausen	Spurburg	before 1308	The remains of the coat of arms and walls below the manor house of today's manor
Old Boyneburg Castle	Sontra - Wichmannshausen	lock	around 1460	Local museum
Boyneburg	Sontra	Hilltop castle	around 1100, mentioned around 1107	two sides of the keep, chapel
Rittergut Boyneburgk (Gut Datterpfeife)	Sontra - Wichmannshausen	Manor	15th century, documented in 1460	received, Hofgut
Brandenfels ruins	Herleshausen - Markershausen	Hilltop castle	1248	Remains of the hall, curtain wall and supporting pillars of the access bridge
Ermschwerd Castle	Witzenhausen - Ermschwerd	Königspfalz	around 822/42	Moats of the outer and main castle
Ermschwerd Castle	Witzenhausen - Ermschwerd	Castle-like mansion	around 1551	Preserved and restored, as today 's municipal house of generations used
Eschwege Castle	Eschwege	lock	1386	lock
Fahrbach Castle	Witzenhausen - Dohrenbach	Niederungsburg	14th Century	built-up remains, private property
Fürstenstein Castle (Albungen)	Eschwege - Albungen	Hilltop castle	before 1264	Privately owned
Gelsterburg	Großalmerode - Weißenbach	Spurburg	probably 2nd half of the 12th century	Section ditch, neck ditch, wall ditch
Grebendorf Castle	Meinhard - Grebendorf	Mansion	1610	Local government
Hohenhaus	Holzhausen (Herleshausen)	lock	16th century manor house, 1901 castle	Castle, hotel
Jestädt Castle	Meinhard - Jestädt	lock	Mid 13th century	Apartments, three-wing complex
Keudell Castle	Wanfried	Mansion	1655; Previous building around 1000	Local museum
Lüderbach Castle	Ringgau - Lüderbach	Manor house of a manor	1560	Private ownership, restored
Ludwigstein Castle	Witzenhausen - Werleshausen	Hilltop castle	1415/16	Youth castle
→ Nesselröden Castle	Herleshausen - Nesselröden	lock	1592-94	Privately owned
Netra moated castle	Ringgau - Netra	Moated castle	13th century, new building 1590–1600	Receive; Privately owned
Ottersbach moated castle	Bad Sooden-Allendorf - Kammerbach	Moated castle	probably 14th century	small remains of the moat
Reichenbach Castle	Hessian Lichtenau	Hilltop castle	8th or 9th century	Lookout tower, remains of the shield wall
Röhrda Castle	Ringgau - Röhrda	Niederungsburg	unknown, first mentioned in 1549	Residential tower, residential building
Rothestein Castle	Bad Sooden-Allendorf	lock	1357 new building 1891	Privately owned
Rückerode castle ruins	Witzenhausen - Hundelshausen - Weiler Rückerode	Spurburg	around 1100 (1327 documented)	Castle ruins with walls, cellar remains and tower ruins
Schnepfenburg castle ruins	Eschwege - Albungen	Spurburg	12th Century	only wall remains of a curtain wall, wall and moat remains
Schwebda moated castle (Walrabshof)	Meinhard - Schwebda	Moated castle	1243	Stone house, farm
Landgrave Castle Sontra	Sontra	lock	First mentioned in 1368, extension to the castle in 1491, extension to a representative building around 1600	Destroyed in 1634, nothing has been preserved
Burgstall Taubenberg	Sontra - Breitau	Hilltop castle	Early middle ages	Time position unclear, Burgstall a presumed small. Wall or refugee castle or unfinished castle complex, rectangular wall-ditch system and presumed cellar or cistern remnants have been preserved
Landgrave Castle Wanfried	Wanfried	lock	February 5, 1015 First mentioned: "Königsgut in Wanifredum", 14th century. Expansion to a moated castle, 16th and 17th century. Palace construction	Residential construction, agricultural buildings
Werleshausen Castle	Witzenhausen - Werleshausen	Castle on manor	1556/1565	Private property
→ Willershausen Castle	Herleshausen - Willershausen	Moated castle	around 1539	round Schaleneck tower, built-up remains in the manor building, holiday apartments
Wolfsbrunnen Castle	Meinhard - Schwebda	Castle (modern)	1904-07	Hotel and restaurant
→ Wommen Castle	Herleshausen - Wommen	lock	1535	Retirement and nursing home, core building and renaissance portal
Ziegenberg Castle	Witzenhausen - Ziegenhagen	Spurburg	around 1100	Remnants of a square tower, a few remains of the wall

Total stock

The castles and palaces recorded so far : As of: March 30, 2020 | 864 in 825 articles .
In addition, there are (as of December 16, 2019) (previously known) 123 castles, palaces, ruins, castle stables, aristocratic courts or castles or palaces without articles that have not yet been recorded here.

literature

Thomas Biller: Castles in the Taunus and Rheingau. A guide to history and architecture. Published in cooperation with the administration of the State Palaces and Gardens of Hesse. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7954-1991-2 .
Thomas Biller: Castles and palaces in the Odenwald. A guide to history and architecture. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7954-1711-2 .
Georg Dehio : Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler , Volumes 5 & 6 in the 1950 edition, Volumes 15a & 15b in the 2008 edition for North Hesse and South Hesse, respectively.
Jens Friedhoff : Castles, palaces and noble residences in the Hessian hinterland (= contributions to the history of the hinterland, volume XII). Edited by Hinterländer Geschichtsverein eV, Bad Endbach-Hartenrod 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-059480-9 .
Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites. 3rd edition, Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 .
Rudolf Knappe: Palaces and fortresses in North and East Hesse. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1996, ISBN 3-86134-237-5 .
Friedrich Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - Floor Plan Lexicon , Würzburg 1994.
Ingrid Krupp: Castles and Palaces in Nassau , Weidlich, Würzburg 1987, ISBN 3-8035-1289-1 .
Alexander Thon, Stefan Ulrich, Jens Friedhoff: "Decided with strong iron chains and bolts ...". Castles on the Lahn . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7954-2000-0 .
Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 .
Palaces, castles, old walls . Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 .
Thomas Steinmetz: Castles in the Odenwald. Ellen Schmid, Brensbach 1998, ISBN 3-931529-02-9 .
Sven Weigel: Castles and palaces in the Gießen district. Verlag Emil Winter, Heuchelheim 2000, ISBN 3-926923-28-8 .

Individual evidence

^ Drawn attempt at reconstruction of the former Philippseck Castle; accessed on September 26, 2019
↑ Oberurff Castle, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hesse (as of May 2, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on May 13, 2013 . and Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications . 3rd edition Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 102.
^ Entry on Bilstein Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
↑ Bilstein Castle, Bad Wildungen community. Castles, palaces, mansions (as of October 2, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on August 13, 2020 .
↑ Compare Hessen's work list for missing articles on well-known castles and palaces in Hessen.

Web links

Commons : Castles and palaces in Hessen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

State Palaces and Gardens in Hesse Website of the administration of the State Palaces and Gardens in Hesse
Renaissance castles in Hesse ( DFG project at the Germanic National Museum by G. Ulrich Großmann ).
European Castle Institute and DATenbank - EBIDAT of the German Castle Association e. V. Castles Palaces Manor houses - Preserve Explore Experience
"All castles: a directory of permanent houses": State of Hessen private website with database (former www.burgeninventar.de website)
www.archaeopedia.de - Monuments in North Hesse, South Lower Saxony and Thuringia
Burgenlexikon - On the history of selected castles
Burgenwelt - Almost 3800 (including 289 in Hesse) medieval castles, palaces and fortifications explained
www.burgenreich.de - Medieval fortifications in Hessen
www.burgenperlen.de - site for Hessen
www.burgdaten.de - 3071 enclosures for Hesse (also contains mansions, Roman fortifications, ramparts, fortified churches, ramparts, remains of the city wall, military installations)
Castles, palaces and defensive structures in Hessen on wehrbauten.de

Castles and palaces in Hessen on www.burgen.de (small selection)

Map with all linked sites: OSM | WikiMap

This version was included in the selection of informative lists and portals on September 24, 2016 .

[1] Drawn attempt at reconstruction of the former Philippseck Castle; accessed on September 26, 2019

[2] Oberurff Castle, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hesse (as of May 2, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on May 13, 2013 . and Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications . 3rd edition Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 102.

[3] Entry on Bilstein Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".

[4] Bilstein Castle, Bad Wildungen community. Castles, palaces, mansions (as of October 2, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on August 13, 2020 .

[5] Compare Hessen's work list for missing articles on well-known castles and palaces in Hessen.