The castle is as Tiefburg northwest of the former village center of glove home . The castle was once a fed from Mühlbach moat surrounded. Is at the northeast corner of the property nor the walled inflow to ditch visible. The connection channel was used by its fluid drainage as access to the neighboring farm. The encasement of the entire system has been fragmentary condition in the surrounding land.
The oldest manor in glove home was probably on a western projection of the Holy Mountain in Won Biirgel . According to ancient lore there once more vaults and walls are said to have been a castle. Whether there was this castle at all and when it has been abandoned, just as little known as the origin of the Tiefburg. The latter, however, has existed in the 13th century at the latest. From the traditions of the 13th and 14th century show that she was a moated castle, surrounded by a 12 meter wide moat fed from the mill stream.
The square of the city walls and vaulted cellar dating back to the Middle Ages, while the rest of the entire system has characteristics of the Renaissance, suggesting a major reconstruction of the castle in the period between 1500 and 1600. The visible to the balcony parapets of the outer walls of Arms of 1544 dated the conversion closer.
The castle was the seat of the Lords of glove home . After they were extinct in the male line in 1600, the castle in 1624 went to the Lords of Helmstatt in whose possession the castle remained for more than three centuries.
From the Thirty Years' War to the Nine Years' War , the castle suffered during the wars of the 17th century. 1642 Castle was repeatedly burned 1674 she was destroyed and uninhabitable. Georg Christoph von Adam Helmstatt (1676-1741) was in 1700 next to the ruins of the manor Freiadlige built on the site of the ruined manor house of the former local government. The manor was once part of the overall system of the castle and was entertained further in the future, while entertaining the ruinous castle core only provisionally.
1911-1913 the Tiefburg by the owner, was Raban Count of Helmstatt renovated (1844-1932) and made the residential building usable again. It was some time at various Handschuhsheimer citizens hired before 1921 Hostel has established therein. 1950 sold Rabans son Bleickard of Helmstatt (1871-1952), the castle of the city of Heidelberg, which gave the estate to the Stadtteilverein glove home. The youth hostel operation ended in 1951. Since then, the castle is used for events.