Höchster Schloss (Altes Schloss) - ein Haus der Deutschen Stiftung Denkmalschutz

This guide to the Höchster Schloss in Frankfurt begins in 1463, when a bishop stripped of his office after losing a war over the Mainz throne rides through the gate of this battered river fortress and spends twelve years rebuilding it as if the loss still stung. It follows what became of his castle once his fortunes shifted again, and jumps forward to the January night in 1635 when Thirty Years War troops burned its Renaissance hall to the ground. Listen for the story of the industrialist who bought the ruin in 1908 and gave it back its garden.