Erbach Castle

[1] In 1525 during the German Peasants' War the castle was damaged by revolting farmers of the Baltringer Haufen.

His heir, Hans Georg von Paumgarten, started works to rebuild the castle on a large scale in 1550: two wings alongside each other on top of large vaulted basement rooms, three storeys high with four more levels under the roofs.

During the Thirty Years' War Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, one of the foremost Protestant generals, resided at Erbach Castle in 1633.

[3] Following a prolonged period of occupation by Swedish troops, the castle was left in an uninhabitable state.

[4] After the Thirty Years' War a pleasure garden, non-existent today, was added to the castle.