Wallenstein Castle

The spur castle was presumably built in the 12th century by the Hersfeld Abbey to secure its western territories against the Thuringian Landgrave. In the early 13th century, the castle came into the possession of Count Albert V of Schauenburg, who subsequently called himself Albert of Wallenstein. Part of the castle was sold back to Hersfeld Abbey in 1250. Albert (I) of Wallenstein later moved his main residence to the newly built Neuwallenstein Castle. During the Thirty Years' War, specifically in 1637, the castle was destroyed by Croatian imperial troops and was not rebuilt thereafter. After the war, the entire Hersfeld region, and thus the ruin, fell to the Hessian Landgraves.