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Before 1353, the construction of Hohlenfels Castle started. The castle was supposed to control the trade route between Aachen and Nuremberg (Kemel-Limburger Strasse) and Hessenstrasse, which passed in the immediate vicinity. During the Thirty Years' War, Hohlenfels was temporarily abandoned and partially destroyed. In 1712 the main building of the castle, which is still habitable, was rebuilt. Already in 1768 parts of the old wooden structures were demolished; in the period that followed, large parts of the castle continued to deteriorate. In the course of the Rhine romanticism, the already largely ruinous castle served several times as a motif for painters and draftsmen. Extensive security measures have been implemented since 1980 and are open to the public again in the summer.