Rauischholzhausen Castle

[1] The last Lord Rau von Holzhausen as an officer in the Hessian Army and when Hesse-Kassel became part of Prussia during German unification, he refused to join the Prussian Army and sold all his property to Stumm, the ambassador's delegate, and moved out of Germany shortly thereafter.

[2][3] After taking over ownership, Stumm commenced construction activity on the estate by demolishing the old moated castle, the adjacent farm and the tithe barn.

[4] On the hill behind it, Stumm built a new manor house, called Rauischholzhausen Castle, and nearby farm yard.

Carl Jonas Mylius and Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli (students of Gottfried Semper), were hired to redesign the castle in line with Schaefer's original designs.

[8] The castle was bought by the Kerkhoff Foundation in Bad Nauheim and then leased to the University of Giessen as a site for experiments in agriculture.