Schloss Nauses

En un regard

Le château en bref

At the entrance to Ober-Nauses, a district of the municipality of Otzberg in the Hessian Odenwald, Schloss Nauses lies at the bottom of a side valley of the Mümling. This former moated castle belongs to a territory that King Pepin is said to have given to Fulda Abbey as early as the beginning of the eighth century. In the fourteenth century it was held as a fief of Fulda by the knight Eberhard Kilian, before being acquired in 1357 by Dieter Ganß von Otzberg. In 1471 the overlordship passed to the Electoral Palatinate and Philipp Ganß von Otzberg received the estate as a fief; most of the surviving buildings date from this renewal campaign. Around 1500 the main residence received a half-timbered storey, followed in 1583 by a stair tower. After the Ganß family died out in 1698, the barons of Sickingen inherited the castle, which was sold in 1792 to the Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg. Attached to Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806, it served as a farm and an inn. Now privately owned, it can only be seen from the outside.