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Le château en bref
Herborn Castle overlooks the old town in the Lahn-Dill district. Originating from a 13th-century fortress, it was the administrative centre of the Herborner Mark, a fief the Counts of Nassau held from the Landgrave of Hesse. First mentioned in writing around 1350, it was transformed into a late Gothic residential castle around 1440–1445 by Count Engelbert I of Nassau-Breda, an ancestor of the Dutch royal family. In 1584 Count John VI of Nassau-Dillenburg first housed the Hohe Schule, the Calvinist academy of Herborn, in the castle; it moved out shortly after 1588. The castle then served the Nassaus as a secondary residence or dower house. Passing to Prussia in 1866, it housed the theological seminary, today that of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau, with an important historical library.