Dachsbach Castle

A well-fortified seat at the same location is indirectly attested in 1129 with the noble free Heinrich von Dachsbach, while the castle itself is first mentioned in 1280 as "castrum" when Nuremberg Burgrave Friedrich III acquired it for 500 marks of silver from Count Ludwig von Oettingen. Around 1400, when it was pledged to Ott Heyden zu Dachsberg, Dachsberg was the center of an extensive office and frequently changed owners, including the patrician family Haller and the Counts of Wertheim. The castle was plundered in 1525 during the Peasants' War and in both 1552 and 1553 during the Second Margrave War; a reconstruction is documented for 1593. A renewed destruction in 1634 during the Thirty Years' War was followed by a restoration. In 1797, the Dachsberg office was absorbed into the new Chamber Office of Neustadt an der Aisch. However, the judicial office returned to Dachsberg in 1798 at the instigation of the bailiff Herrgott. With Herrgott's dismissal and imprisonment in 1806, the office fell to Neustadt an der Aisch in 1812. The now renovated tower is locked and only accessible with a key.