The castle is a stately rectangular building with high, curved gables. It was built between 1577 and 1578. [4] At the back there is an octagonal stair tower, and figurative symbolic sculptures can be seen on its Renaissance portal; next to it the bay window with figural and ornamental reliefs.
The so-called Eulenburg (Old Castle), which was built here in the 13th century, was destroyed around 1280 by Abbot Bertho IV of Fulda. At the same time, the entire town passed under the feudal rule of the monastery. The von Mansbach family continued to have jurisdiction. Finally, in 1577 the family built what is now called the Geyso Castle. In 1652 the Wilhelm branch of the von Mansbach family sold the entire facility to the Hessian Lieutenant General Johann von Geyso. His grandson Valentin von Geyso had the building rebuilt in the third quarter of the 17th century and gave it its current rectangular shape. Further renovations took place in 1878 until it was finally in its present state. From 1918 the facility was used as a stud, among other things.
In the meantime, the Geyso-Schloss Mansbach has passed into the possession of the Federal Republic of Germany, but still houses the administration of the technical school for horse breeding and keeping, as well as the foal rearing. You can only visit a half-timbered annex, in which there is a local museum. A baroque cavalier's house, which was located east of the castle, had to be demolished in 1968 due to dilapidation.
The Heimatstube, which was established by the Mansbach-Soislieden Tourist Association, is open to the public.
Source: Wikipedia