Braunfels
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Braunfels is a town in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany. It is located on the German Timber-Frame Road.
Aerial view
Braunfels Castle
Karl von Schönhals 1849
Solms-Braunfels
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Solms-Braunfels was a County and later Principality with Imperial immediacy in what is today the federal Land of Hesse in Germany.
Braunfels
…Braunfels Castle, a stately home that had been built from a castle built in the 13th century by the Counts of Nassau, served as of about 1260 as the Solms-Braunfels noble family's residential castle. After Solms Castle had been destroyed by the Rhenish League of Towns in 1384, Braunfels Castle became the seat of…
Solms-Braunfels coat of arms
Braunfels Castle (owned by the family since 1260)
Greifenstein Castle (owned 1382−1969 by the House of Solms)
Hungen Castle (owned 1418−1974 by Solms-Braunfels)