Schloss Oranienstein

Schloss Oranienstein is one of the royal residences of the place of Orange-Nassau, sited at Diez on the Lahn. It was based on the remains of Dierstein Abbey somewhere in the range of 1672 and 1681 for Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau after she was bereft. After the French Republican attack pulverized the Dutch Republic in 1795, stadtholder William V, Prince of Orange and his family initially fled to England, before settling in Oranienstein for quite a long while.

William and his child William Frederick issued the Oranienstein Letters, perceiving the Batavian Republic and disavowing their stadtholderate and regional cases in the Netherlands as a byproduct of monetary and regional pay somewhere else, conceded by First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte. After the extension of the Duchy of Nassau by Prussia in 1866, the royal residence was given to the Prussian armed force the next year. Today is as yet involved by the Bundeswehr, together with adjoining dormitory, yet additionally houses an exhibition hall.