Manor Werleshausen

Werleshausen Castle is a former knight's estate and was completed in its present form in the style of the Renaissance in 1556. A free peasant family had built the estate in the 13th century and in its form of origin it was much smaller than today. The cellar with a catacomb-like vault and the meter-thick walls of the first floor probably date back to around 1280. The most present part of the manor house is the frontal round tower and also the oldest building of the estate. The opposite octagonal corner towers with baroque hoods are also in the half-timbered style as in both floors.

In 1840, Christoph von Christen (former dean of the Medical Faculty in Budapest), who came from Hungary, married a Caroline von Hanstein, who brought the estate into the marriage as a dowry. The estate is still owned by the Christen family today. From 1937 the farm was leased to several families.

Nearby, in the northern foothills of the Sooden Hills, is the youth castle Ludwigstein and about six kilometers to the north-northeast the border triangle Hesse-Lower Saxony-Thuringia and the castle ruins Hanstein.