ゲミュンデン（フェルダ）の洞窟・トップ14

The Altenburg Castle Church was built in 1748/50 as a baroque transverse church, since the castle chapel, built in 1355 and dedicated to Saint Barbara, was destroyed in the Hessian War in 1647.

Altenburg Castle was built around 1178 as a hilltop castle by barons.

The castle courtyard is freely accessible at all times.

A linden tree that is said to be at least 800 years old… an incredibly beautiful piece… not worth anything in the world

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 castle is privately owned

The first documented mention of Romrod dates back to 1197, when in a document from the Fulda monastery under Abbot Heinrich III. von Cronberg, Ludwig von Rumerot appears as a witness to a transfer of goods. The ministerial family was probably among the followers of the Landgraves of Thuringia, but is also attested in the Fulda area. Heinrich von Romrod built Herzberg Castle towards the end of the 13th century and gave it to the Landgrave of Hesse as a fief. The family subsequently divided into two lines, one of which was named after the new castle in Herzfeld. The male line of the Romroder line died out around the middle of the 14th century, whereupon the heiress sold the castle to the landgraves Heinrich II and Otto. The castle was occupied by castle men and finally came into direct Hessian ownership around 1400. In the course of the division of the Hesse inheritance after the death of Philip the Magnanimous, Romrod Castle initially passed to Landgrave Ludwig IV of Hesse-Marburg. Between 1578 and 1587 he had a large part of the castle buildings demolished due to their dilapidation. The new buildings of this time essentially gave the castle its current appearance. After Ludwig's death in 1604, the castle fell to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt. Until 1829 it served as the seat of a landgrave's office. The castle was then rebuilt again, mainly between 1878 and 1885, and served as a summer residence for the grand ducal family. For this purpose, the nearest train station, Zell-Romrod, was given its own princely room for the reception of the “highest gentlemen”. In the property dispute between the People's State of Hesse and the last Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine, Ernst Ludwig, the castle was awarded to the former Grand Duke in the first agreement in 1919. In the second contract from 1930, which was concluded due to the inflation of 1923, the castle only fell to the former Grand Duke for life and thus to the People's State of Hesse one year after his death in 1938. After the Second World War it was used as accommodation for refugees until the 1970s. It then stood empty for years and was in danger of falling into disrepair until the German Foundation for Monument Protection acquired it in 1997. Today the castle houses a hotel. Between 1996 and 2002, extensive archaeological excavations took place in the castle area. Source: Wikipedia