GISS 2027

• Programme
• Awards
• Postersessions
• Accommodations
• About Rauischholzhausen Castle

• Monday, April 26, 2027
  • No Symposium day, only arrival after 4 p.m.
• Tuesday, April 27, 2027
  • Opening Registration 10 a.m.; Expert classes in the morning; Official opening and welcome at 2 p.m.
• Wednesday, April 28, 2027
  • Robert Sommer Award Ceremony; Robert Sommer lecture; GISS lecture; GISS dinner
• Tuhrsday, April 29, 2027
  • End of GISS at approximately 2 p.m.

Detailed programme coming soon.

Registration Type

• Student - 140€ (late registration from January 31, 2027 - 180€)
• Full Participant - 280€ (late registration from January 31, 2027 - 350€)
• Only online participation - 100€

Including: coffee breaks, lunch and dinner

Individuals must be graduate students, residents, fellows, or new/young faculty members who have completed their last training within 5 years.

Awardees are required to submit a poster abstract.

Each award will include:

• Waived registration
• Full coverage of staying in the Rauischholzhausen Castle during the GISS meeting for 2 nights.

The application should include:

• A short statement about applicant’s career goals
• Curriculum Vitae
• Poster abstract

To recognize important contributions in the field of prevention, care and rehabilitation of mental disorders. The selection of the award recipient is based on the quality of the contribution(s) and its impact in advancing schizophrenia research.

To recognize an outstanding translational research contribution to schizophrenia research. The contribution may be based on a single discovery or a cumulative body of work which has translational impact. The selection of the award recipient is based on the quality of the contribution(s) and its impact in advancing schizophrenia research.

further informations coming soon

We can offer a limited number of rooms in outbuildings on the castle grounds. These are simple rooms with shared sanitary facilities. These rooms cost €60 per night including breakfast. Please indicate this booking request when registering under “Accommodations”. Please understand that only a limited number of rooms are available. You will receive an answer as to whether rooms are still available after you have registered.

choose accommodation
→ interested in an overnight stay organised by congress team (Guesthouse)

We have reserved several rooms in a hotel in the vicinity of the castle (only reachable by car). Information about the hotel can be found under the following link: https://www.dombaecker.de/home/startseite.html. If you would like this option, please select it during registering under “Accommodations”. You will then receive a password with which you can access the reserved contingents. Please use the password to contact the hotel and make an individual booking.

choose accommodation
→ self organisation of overnight stay Hotel Dombaecker Amöneburg of reservated contingents

It is also possible to look for accommodation in the surrounding area or Marburg on your own initiative. Marburg is about 20 minutes by car from the castle. Public transportation is irregular.

choose accommodation
→ self organisation of overnight stay nearby or in Marburg

Address

https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Rauischholzhausen#map=14/50.74419/8.88846

Marburg Hauptbahnhof (main station) or Marburg Südbahnhof, then continue by cab or bus. From Marburg Südbahnhof take the bus line 81 to the bus stop Ebsdorfergrund-Rauischholzhausen Potsdamer Straße.

Preferably take a cab from frankfurt airport to the Castle. Alternatively, take a regional train to Marburg Südbahnhof and from there take a cab or bus.

If you are traveling by car, please use your preferred navigation device. The address, especially for nearby parking, is: Schlosspark 4
35085 Ebsdorfergrund

“Rauischholzhausen Castle was built between 1873 and 1878 by Ferdinand von Stumm.

The von Stumm ambassador belonged to the well-known and very wealthy von Stumm family of industrialists from the Saarland, who successfully ran an ironworks there. His father had died prematurely and his older brother took over the estate.

In 1872, Ferdinand von Stumm acquired an area of around 50 hectares in Holzhausen from Baron Rau von Holzhausen. The last member of the Rau von Holzhausen family living in Holzhausen died in 1872; his brother had emigrated to South America.

The Rau von Holzhausen family had received the land as a fief from Sophie of Brabant - a daughter of Elisabeth of Thuringia - in 1248. The coat of arms of the Rau von Holzhausen family can be seen to the right of the archway on the so-called Kinderbau.

Ferdinand von Stumm commissioned the university architect Schäfer and later the Berlin architects Mylius and Buntschli to build the palace. He also commissioned the famous garden architect Heinrich Siesmayer (Frankfurt Palmengarten, Bad Nauheim Kurpark) to create an English park. Today, there are still 300 different species of trees and shrubs in the 30-hectare park.

The palace was built in the German Historicism style. It was used for representation with numerous rooms decorated with great craftsmanship in styles such as Neo-Renaissance, Neo-Baroque and Neo-Rococo. Princes, aristocrats and high-ranking personalities were guests at the castle, including Emperor Friedrich, who elevated the Stumm family to the nobility in 1888.

Ferdinand v. Stumm married Pauline von Hofmann on September 28, 1878. The couple had 5 children; one child died at the age of one and was buried in the cemetery next to the church. On the occasion of the wedding, he donated a church to the village; later also the Protestant parish hall, a dairy and a retirement home.

He was a great collector. These antiques were listed and auctioned at the Christie auction house in London in 1936. Some pieces that are firmly associated with the building can still be seen today.

Von Stumm died in Locarno in 1925. His wife then moved to Murnau.

A son took over the castle and park and sold the property in 1936 to the National Socialist People's Welfare Organization (Nationalsozialistische Volksvorsorge - Erzieherinnenausbildung).

In 1945, the castle and park fell to the state of Hesse.

From 1949 to 2023, the castle was a conference and training center for Justus Liebig University Giessen. The Landesbetrieb für Bau und Immobilien Hessen (LBIH) has been the operator of Rauischholzhausen Castle since October 2023. Faber Management, as the tenant of the restaurant and hotel, has been hosting conferences, family celebrations and cultural events for over 20 years.”

(Source: https://www.schlosshotel-rauischholzhausen.de/schloss-rauischholzhausen-die-geschichte)