Braunfels

Braunfels is a city inside the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany. It is placed on the German Timber-Frame Road. The town and stately seat of Braunfels have been first cited in 1246. Braunfels has had town rights since 1607. In 1950 Braunfels had a populace of 3,337. In the direction of municipal reforms, the aforesaid constituent groups, previously all independent villages, have been amalgamated with Braunfels in 1972. Bonbaden had its first documented point out in 772, and so celebrated 1200 years of existence in 1972. Bonbaden is therefore certainly one of Lahn-Dill's oldest inhabited locations.

Schloss Braunfels, a stately home that were constructed from a fortress constructed inside the thirteenth century by using the Counts of Nassau, served as of approximately 1260 as the Solms-Braunfels noble own family's residential castle. After Solms Castle were destroyed by the Rhenish League of Towns in 1384, Braunfels Castle became the seat of the Counts of Solms. Over the fort's more than 750-yr-lengthy records, constructing work turned into achieved usually. Particularly worthy of point out is the city and fort fire of 1679, which burnt tons of Braunfels and its stately seat down. Both were then built right into a Baroque residence. Schloss Braunfels turned into rebuilt out of substances that have been nonetheless handy. The town turned into given a normal market, which remains preserved today and lies before the town wall.