The name "Veltheim" indicates the "home on the field" and goes to a settlement around 300 BC. Back. The place was first documented in 1160 by the Denomination of Origin of the Ministerial Rotherus de Velten, who is listed in the wake of Duke Henry the Lion as a witness of a donation of the estate Harvesse to the monastery Riddagshausen.
The Renaissance-style Veltheimer Castle has preserved the character of a typical moated castle to this day. As a strong fortification on the western tip of the Elms, near the Ohewald, it was probably already in the early Middle Ages for the protection of the Reitlingstals and the defense of assaulting Slavs and Hungarians. The nearby "old" Erdfall feeds the moat, which completely surrounds the courtyard, with fresh spring water.
From 1555 Ernst von Honrodt built the moated castle on the walls of the castle.