Top 20 Castles around Reiskirchen

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

Beautiful castle of the Solm-Laubach family. Still inhabited by the count family.

Today the "autumn magic in Laubach Castle" took place. The visit was worth it.

The armory in particular is super nice

The elongated building (85 × 22 meters) in the style of the German Renaissance is originally a military building, which is still called the armory today. The huge armory was built in 1586-1590 at right angles to the New Castle, which had been completed half a century earlier as a small but representative residence. The ensemble of buildings around a courtyard was completed by a royal stable and the rent office. The Senckenbergstraße, which runs here today, was not laid out until around 1900, when the fortress wall had long since been removed. The symmetrically designed armory impresses with its mighty gable roof and the high gables with the typical snail and ball decorations. This monumental building also burned down after the bombing in December 1944. The state of Hesse preserved the old outlines during the reconstruction in 1960/61 and reconstructed the facade; Windows and interiors were modernized to suit the new use. The new palace and armory were used by the Justus Liebig University, which was rebuilt in 1957. The small extension next to the main portal dates from the time the university was founded in 1609: the university prison. This is where rowdy, hard-drinking Studiosi were imprisoned. The Giessen prison also found its way into literature through the school humorous »The Visit to the Carcer« (1876); it was written by the writer Ernst Eckstein (1845–1900), who was born in Giessen. The rumor persists that it was even included in the screenplay for the film »Die Feuerzangenbowle« (1944) with Heinz Rühmann. Source: https://giessen-discoveren.de/locations/neues-schloss-und-zeughaus/