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The sign in front of the moat has the following inscription: Old castle destroyed in 1382, rebuilt before 1605, former fiefdom of the Günderrode family.

The whole slope is an excellently maintained… beautifully landscaped garden… fruit cultivation… herb and flower beds… very finely labelled

Great preserved complex with lots of things worth seeing around it.. you should treat yourself

The tower is freely accessible at any time and offers a great all-round view of the entire surrounding area.

The Alteburg, also called Altenburg, is a derelict moated castle in the Alteburgpark in the town of Schotten in the Vogelsberg district in Hesse. An early ring wall system can be assumed to be the predecessor of the Alteburg. Finds made in 1960 point to the Hallstatt period. The moated castle was probably developed around 1000 on an artificially raised castle hill, surrounded by a circular moat fed from the Nidda, and served to monitor an important highway that led along the Nidda over the heights of the Vogelsberg. After the castle was destroyed by the Rhenish League of Cities in 1382, it was not rebuilt. A residential building was probably built on the remains of the castle in 1515. The Alteburg was first mentioned in writing in 1547, when it was included in the documents as the “old bower”. Tilemann von Günderrode (1512–1550), Chancellor of Landgrave Philip I of Hesse, received the dilapidated complex and other property in Schotten from the Landgrave as a fief. His son Wilhelm (1550–1607), who became a colonel in the Hesse-Kassel service, had the remains of the castle and the old house removed around the turn of the century, probably in 1605, and a stately half-timbered house with a gable roof was built on parts of the massive foundation walls as a widow's residence. The circular moat fed by the Nidda still surrounds the half-timbered building, which is still very well preserved and surrounded by trees. The property is privately owned and not open to the public. The Alteburgpark park with the moat, which faces Nidda and federal highway 276, was purchased and created by the city of Schotten and is freely accessible. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alteburg_(Schotten)

The museum is located in the old Lauterbach Castle, which was already inhabited in the Middle Ages and was probably rebuilt around 1525

Fantastic castle 👌 🤩

The baroque palace "Hohhaus" was built between 1770 and 1778 as the palace of the barons Riedesel zu Eisenbach and has housed the collection of the Lauterbach Museum since 1931, which was founded in 1910. The most valuable treasure of the Hohaus Museum in Lauterbach is the late Gothic altar of Mary, created around 1480. Another attraction of the museum are the hand-painted wallpapers from China, which Count Carl von Schlitz, called von Görtz, brought back from a trip around the world that he undertook around 1840. Other objects from China and Japan are also on display. One focus of the museum is the collection of hand-forged locks, fittings, door handles and keys. There is also an extensive collection of weapons. https://www.freizeit-mittelhessen.de/content/hohhaus-museum.html