The landgrave's palace originally had two wings and was also depicted in this form in the city views by Valentin Wagner (1631) and Matthäus Merian (around 1655). The east wing is essentially late medieval and incorporated two older (probably late 15th century) round towers. These were now given muzzles for setting up cannons. The east wing was built after a fire in 1603 in the years 1609/1610
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Historic Landgrave Castle in Butzbach - the location of Hesse's largest open air cinema (in summer).

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The Landgrave's Castle Butzbach was originally a city castle of the Lords of Falkenstein. However, today's excavations in the castle area have shown that there was probably a small ring-shaped moated castle on the site as early as around 1200.

The Falkenstein family expanded the property around 1390, then it was the seat of the von Eppstein-Königstein family, the Archbishop of Mainz, and finally the Landgrave's Hessian castle. Around 1500 another castle was built by the Landgraves of Hesse. Landgrave Philipp von Hessen-Butzbach (1609-1643) rebuilt the castle, which had partially burned down in 1603, as a stately residence.

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1. Petersee near Lich – Landgrave's Castle, Butzbach loop from Butzbach

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3. Landgrave's Castle, Butzbach – Butzbach Market Square loop from Usingen

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1. Petersee near Lich – Landgrave's Castle, Butzbach loop from Butzbach

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