Gothic House (Bad Homburg)

It was built in the castle's grounds in 1823 by Landgräfin Elisabeth, daughter of George III the United Kingdom, for her husband Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, with the foundation stone laid on 17 April that year.

Construction was overseen by Georg Moller, but was stopped permanently after scaffolding collapsed on 9 November 1823, burying and injuring eight workers, one of whom later died of his injuries.

Wilhelm II of Prussia sold it to a restaurant owner but still wanted it "secure as a monument", for reasons that remain unclear.

The Gothic House was listed as a historic monument in 1977 "at the last minute"[4] and in 1980 the building passed to a property management company in Frankfurt after the Lipinskis went bankrupt.

[5]) The museum houses many temporary exhibitions and permanent displays on the history, art, fashion, coinage and hat-industry of the town, its spa and the landgraviate as a whole, including the "Hutmuseum", centred on the Homburg hat.