Lauternsches Castle (Schlüchtern)

The "Steinhus zu Sluchtern", a manor of the Lords of Trimberg, can be traced back to 1338. The three-story rubble stone building, surrounded by a wide moat, was then the largest residential building in Schlüchtern. Around 1440, the property came into the possession of Hans von Lauter, who had it expanded and extended. The Gothic portal and the rectangular twin windows date from this construction phase.

The small castle, damaged in the Thirty Years' War, was rebuilt by Hans Ernst von Lauter in 1675. In 1688, the Dehn-Rothfelser family acquired the building. In the following century, the moat was drained.

In 1798, the salt administrator Wilhelm Stickel, a friend of the Grimm family, bought the small castle. In 1818, Stickel's daughter married the doctor Moritz Zinkhan, who lived and practiced here until his death in 1851. In 1902, the city of Schlüchtern acquired the building. Today, it houses the Bergwinkelmuseum.