Hochhausen Castle

Very nice castle and seat of the gentlemen of Helmstatt, which is not really public. After registration and demand, you can certainly look around and explore the castle a bit.
Incidentally, the current owners are very friendly and helpful, they were happy to give me information about the history of the facility.
The origins of the complex date back to the 11th-12th centuries and at that time it was probably a fortified castle. More details are not known even to the current owners.From the 15th century it was gradually converted into a castle and then went to the Counts of Helmstadt from 1750.
Damian Hugo was given the castle as a fief after he wanted to exchange the property in Oberöwisheim, which was badly damaged by the effects of the war. The 3 castles in Helmstadt, of which only rudiments are left today, went to the Berlichinger family. They were obviously better friends with the emperor and were able to report claims to Helmstadt, the helmet-makers had to give way.
Raban von Helmstatt rebuilt the complex in its current form in the Baroque style in the 18th century.It is also available at normal times (without Corona) as a guest house and bed and bike, so hospitality is also taken care of. Recommendable!
If you want to know more, check here:schloss-hochhausen.de

Schloss Hochhausen is a baroque castle built in 1752 that emerged from a medieval castle. It lies on the left slope of the Neckar in the village of Hochhausen in the Neckar-Odenwald district in Baden-Württemberg. The castle is inhabited and run as a guesthouse.
In 1228, Volknand von Hochhausen, a local nobleman, is mentioned for the first time in an episcopal document from Speyer. It has not yet been clarified whether the aristocratic seat was already on the site of today's castle, or about 1400 m further south, on the very well-preserved castle stables in the "Burgstädtle" area.
The core of today's palace goes back at least to the 15th century, as evidenced by the arched frieze on the garden side.[4] A castle in Hochhausen was first mentioned in writing in 1499, in a document from the Horneck family from Hornberg zu Hochhausen, who had received the place as a fief from the Weißenburg monastery by the 14th century at the latest. Members of this family were known in the late Middle Ages as "entrepreneurs" who were involved in a large number of armed conflicts.
Weißenburg Abbey became impoverished over time and was united with the Bishopric of Speyer in 1545/46. For this reason, the Speyer bishops became the new feudal lords in the town, although the Hochhausen line of the Horneck von Hornberg - and thus the majority of their subjects - had recently converted to the Lutheran faith. When the evangelical line zu Hochhausen died out in 1740, the town passed to the Bavarian branch of the family, which had returned to the Catholic faith. The denominational disputes with the Protestant majority of the population, which in the Notburgakirche in Hochhausen led to the tearing out of the side altars and the painting over, but also the relatively low income that could be generated on site, persuaded the family to sell, and with it the Bishopric of Speyer took back the fief in 1748. In order to make the blood jurisdiction associated with the local rule clear, the bishop of Speyer had a gallows erected after taking over the town. This was probably the name of the "blood tree" field, which is located above the village on the edge of the forest on the way to Kälbertshausen.Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Hochhausen