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    1. Brücker Mill – Burg Schweinsberg loop from Amöneburg

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    July 10, 2024

    Schweinsberg Castle was built in the 13th century. The family of the “Barons Schenk zu Schweinsberg” have lived here for several centuries. The later town of Schweinsberg grew up around the castle. Today Schweinsberg is a district of Stadtallendorf.

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      July 21, 2024

      The complex, mentioned in 1279, was built around 1230 as a family seat by the knight Guntram Vogt of Marburg, the founder of the Schenck family of Schweinsberg. The castle and town of Schweinsberg remained in joint ownership of the Schenck family thereafter and were opened to the Landgraves of Hesse and the Archbishops of Mainz in turn, particularly in the late Middle Ages. In the course of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, the castle was expanded, converted and rebuilt into a small palace. This was redesigned in the neo-Gothic style in the middle of the 19th century. Schweinsberg Castle is a fortification that was expanded and converted in several phases with strong late medieval and early modern walls and representative residential buildings. In addition to the remains of the medieval castle uncovered between 1888 and 1890, the ring wall including the roundels, the gate building of the outer bailey, the stately so-called Fähnrichsbau and the so-called Neue Kemenate with the gun tower located to the southwest have been preserved. Schweinsberg Castle is still owned by several branches of the Schenck von Schweinsberg family.

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        Location: Stadtallendorf, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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