Huttenschloss (Bad Soden)

Hutten Castle is a lowland castle at about 160 m above sea level in the Bad Soden district of Bad Soden-Salmünster (Main-Kinzig district, Hesse).

Hutten Castle is the most important historical building in the valley settlement of Bad Soden. It was built around 1536 by Lukas von Hutten and his wife Apollonia von Frankenstein after they lost their original residence at Stolzenberg Castle. It was continuously inhabited by various lines of the family until 1814. Lukas von Hutten's great-nephew Johann extended the original building with a side wing (dated 1594) and a stable (1599). After the Hutten line died out, ownership changed. First, Jean Pierre Dupré (1762–1848), a timber merchant from the Rhenish Palatinate, acquired the castle in 1819. In 1875, Georg Vitriarius, who owned the usage rights to the revitalized brine springs of the town, established a first private bathhouse in the basement. The saline healing water was transported in wooden barrels from the springs to the castle. In 1901, it was sold to the yarn manufacturer Johann Adolf Krafft from Offenbach, who modernized it and converted it into a summer residence for his family with an English landscape park.

In the 20th century, Hutten Castle was the seat of various companies; since 1998, it has been used as an open-air theater.

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