Can you visit Schloss Gräfenhausen?

The building operates as a care home and school, so its interior is not open for public visits.

How old is Schloss Gräfenhausen?

A moated castle was founded shortly after 1211, but the present building dates from 1555 and was remodelled in Renaissance style during the 16th and 17th centuries.

Who built Schloss Gräfenhausen?

The first stronghold is attributed to Waro von Hagen, and the lords of Heusenstamm owned it for over four centuries before the Renaissance rebuilding.

What survives of the original castle?

Very little: the moat and courtyard disappeared during renovation works carried out between 1988 and 1990.

Schloss Gräfenhausen

Gräfenhausen Castle

Weiterstadt

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Where: Weiterstadt

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Schloss Gräfenhausen stands in Weiterstadt (Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg), in Hesse, Germany. The building is a listed Baudenkmal. No visits are on record for this building.

The Schloss Gräfenhausen, in Weiterstadt, stands on the site of a former moated castle founded shortly after 1211 by the von Hagen family, later held for more than four centuries by the lords of Heusenstamm. The present building dates from 1555 and was reworked into a Renaissance residence in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, when Hans Heinrich von Heussenstamm added a forecourt, barns and defensive bastions. Bought by the city of Darmstadt in 1887, it has housed a social institution, the Ohlystift, since 1888, serving over the years as a children's home and now as a care home for the elderly. Little remains of the original moat and courtyard after renovation works carried out between 1988 and 1990.

What to know

The building currently functions as a care home and school, which limits public access to its interior spaces.
Almost nothing remains of the original courtyard or moat, removed during the 1988 to 1990 renovation works.
No opening hours, admission fees or visitor facilities are documented for this site.
The building is listed as a Kulturdenkmal in Germany.

Where this château is

Weiterstadt · Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg · Hessen

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Gräfenhausen, 64331 Weiterstadt

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Heritage status: Kulturdenkmal in Deutschland

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Can you visit Schloss Gräfenhausen?: The building operates as a care home and school, so its interior is not open for public visits.
How old is Schloss Gräfenhausen?: A moated castle was founded shortly after 1211, but the present building dates from 1555 and was remodelled in Renaissance style during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Who built Schloss Gräfenhausen?: The first stronghold is attributed to Waro von Hagen, and the lords of Heusenstamm owned it for over four centuries before the Renaissance rebuilding.
What survives of the original castle?: Very little: the moat and courtyard disappeared during renovation works carried out between 1988 and 1990.