Schloss Ermreuth

Schloss Ermreuth is a manor house in the Upper Franconian village of Ermreuth in the municipality of Neunkirchen am Brand. The three-storey hipped roof building was owned by various Franconian noble families in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. From 1926 the estate was used as a meeting point and training establishment for leading Nazis and, since 1980, has been the residence of right wing extremist, Karl-Heinz Hoffmann.
Predecessor buildings on the site of the manor are recorded even before 1358. In 1525 rebellious peasants burnt down the castle. The locksmith, Stefan Muffel, from the Nuremberg patrician family Muffel suppressed the insurrection and rebuilt the house. In 1573 and 1579-1622, the estate belonged to the Stiebars, who built today's palace building with its staircase tower around 1600. After ten years of ownership by the House of Wildenstein, the castle was sold to the Künsbergs in 1632, who, in the eighteenth century, added the upper floor, raised the staircase and built a roof terrace with a parapet. According to an old legend, a black mare also lives here, who waits for people to go past the house in the darkness, sits on their back and oppresses them. In 1858 the Künsbergs sold the manor to the owner of the hammer mill, Andreas Schäff, From Erlangen.

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