Top 20 Castles around Grünberg

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

A very beautiful park. The 32-hectare park, freely accessible, surrounding Rauischholzhausen Castle, is a great destination for a tour or a stopover.

wonderfully preserved, events and festivals are celebrated in the castle and the castle park on several dates throughout the year….

Numerous cultural events (concerts, readings, etc.) take place every year in the "Blue Hall", which has been restored in the style of the 18th century. You can get married there after registering in advance. The former horse stable was extensively converted into a community and exhibition room, which is connected to a kitchen, storage rooms and sanitary facilities. Unfortunately, the castle cannot be visited from the inside. Nevertheless, residents open their doors at some events and are happy to allow a look into the rooms.

Four times a year, sales events are held in the castle park and in the castle interior - in spring, summer, autumn and winter. These are signposted widely throughout the Wetterau and are always well attended. Depending on the season, appropriate stalls are set up... So there is garden magic with garden decorations and plants, winter magic with Christmas decorations and gingerbread, but there are always snack stalls with every conceivable attack on the figure.😅😅

Hungen Castle A castle complex in Hungen that was owned by the Falkensteiners is documented for the year 1383. It was probably built after Hungen was granted city rights in 1361. The Falkensteins died out in 1418 and parts of their property, including the castle in Hungen, fell to the Counts of Solms. Around 1455, Bernhard II von Solms-Braunfels built a larger castle on this site, probably using the fabric of the previous building. The building was extended about 30 years later, 1487-1492, by Bernhard III, before Count Philipp also redesigned the area. He had some parts of the building demolished and, among other things, built a stair tower (1574) instead. In 1616 the city wall and ramparts were built. This wall was breached by Hungen during the construction of the Gießen–Gelnhausen railway line. During the Second World War, the palace served the National Socialists as a collection point for Jewish cultural assets stolen from Western Europe, especially libraries. After the war, the complex was used as a retirement home and as a residence for Turkish guest workers. In 1974 the owner at the time, Hans Georg von Oppersdorf, gave the dilapidated castle - which he had inherited from his father-in-law, Prince Georg Friedrich zu Solms-Braunfels - to a community of owners who restored the building.[2] On the Day of the Open Monument in 2014, the castle was presented to the public again forty years after it was donated. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Hungen

It is not entirely certain when construction of the complex began. A period around the year 1200 is being discussed. The castle reached its final size in 1569, when Count Christoph Ernst von Dietz had the outer castle wall built. The castle was particularly contested during the Seven Years' War (1756 - 1763). In 1826 the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt sold the castle to G. F. Schuchardt for 820 guilders. He released the castle as a quarry in 1835/36. In 1853 the state of Hesse bought the ruins back. They are now property of the state of Hesse. The observation tower was built on the castle in 1905/06. It has no historical connection to the former complex. In the northwest area of the outer castle there has been a VdK honorary cemetery for those who died in the Second World War since 1969. Since 1991, the association for the preservation of the castle ruins has been working to restore the remains of the walls, which are protected as historical monuments. Source: https://www.ulrichstein.de/seite/421686/historischer-stadtrundgang.html