Friedelhausen Castle, Gothic castle in Lollar, Germany

Friedelhausen Castle, the Neues Schloss, stands about 200 metres north of and above the older Hofgut on the Lahn between Marburg and Gießen. The English architect John Dobson designed it in Tudor Gothic style: a two-storey, nearly cubic block with a crenellated parapet and flat roof, its corners flanked by slender, raised open towers. It is built of dark Lungstein basalt from Londorf, and climbing plants cover part of the lower level.

Baron Adalbert von Nordeck zur Rabenau had the castle built in 1852 as a residential residence for his English wife Clara. This 19th-century founding was a response to the desire for an estate that blends English and German building traditions.

The poet Rainer Maria Rilke spent summer 1905 here as a guest of the Countess of Schwerin. His stay within the castle's rooms left a mark on the region's literary history.

The castle is inhabited by the Counts of Schwerin and cannot be entered. The two memorial columns stand on the tree-lined avenue approaching from the east, and the lower Hofgut with its farm shop lies about 200 metres to the southwest.

The dark basalt used for the walls is Lungstein from Londorf, a stone that masons can carve easily; the same material has been used in restoring Cologne Cathedral. The interior was painted in illusionistic style by the Kassel decorator Reinhard Hochapfel, and original furniture and wallpaper made for the castle survive.