"Here in the middle of the dense deciduous and coniferous forest, the castle rose in the grove", says the large stone in the small park in the west of Obertshausen, on the edge of the industrial area, indicating the location and the remains of a former tower fortress ,
The castle in the grove was, according to current knowledge, the seat of the lords of Hausen, a family of the so-called lower nobility, and was built around the middle of the 11th century. By 1280, the castle had already fallen. The plant enclosed a ring wall about one hundred meters long and almost three meters thick. In the middle of the courtyard, a round, multi-storey, about 15 meters high weir and residential tower should have been found. The entire complex was a typical tower castle, of which only a few remains of the wall are preserved today.
(Source: Gerd Grein, tower ruins Obertshausen, in: Cultural discoveries South Hesse, edited by Thomas root, Regensburg 2007)