The monastery granted the Gericht to the Jossa (or Jasza) family, a branch of the Steckelberg family, who likely built the stone castle around 1150. When they moved to the western edge of the Odenwald in the 14th century they started to sell off their possessions here. Ownership and lordship over the area changed several times over the next centuries. In 1326, a quarter of the castle was owned by the house of Isenburg-Büdingen. In 1357, the Counts of Hanau bought the fief from Fulda. In 1451, the Counts of Hanau were named as owning half of the fief, shared with lords of Thüngen and the house of Hutten. Later, the Hutten family seems to have become sole owners and in 1540/1 sold the Gericht to the Electorate of Mainz. The Archbishop later joined it with his possession in the Bezirksamt Hausen.