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Schloss Steinau
Schloss Steinau
address
Schloss Steinau a. d. Straße
36396 Steinau a. d. Straße
36396 Steinau a. d. Straße
Phone
+49 (0) 6663 6843
eMail
info@schloesser.hessen.de
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Opening hours
Sector
Art History
Category
Museums; Castles, Gardens and Parks
Sponsor
Land Hessen
Focus of collection
Castle museum; History of Literature; Grimm Brothers collection
Location
Main-Kinzig-Kreis
Information
The closed Renaissance complex of Steinau Castle was built from 1525 by Philip II and Philip III of Hanau-Münzenberg, incorporating older medieval structures. The core castle was enclosed from 1551 with a pentagonal Zwinger and four corner bastions, which had casemated basements for defense. Steinau Castle is one of the few early modern castle complexes to have almost completely survived. The entire outer defense system with deer moat and retaining wall is an essential element of one of the earliest bastioned castle complexes ever to have survived from the German region.