regular rectangular complex with four round towers in the corners Castle Lahr

A regular rectangular complex with four round towers in the corners, it followed the well-known late Staufer type that also exists in Sicily with the Castello Ursino in Catania and the Castello Maniace in Syracuse.
Built by the Lords of Geroldseck between 1220 and 1235.
Walter I von Geroldseck was imprisoned with his son “in his castle at Lahr”.
The castle survived the Thirty Years' War without damage, but was destroyed by the French under François de Créquy on September 15, 1677.