Faber Castle

The castle was built between 1883 and 1885 by pencil manufacturer Lothar von Faber (1817–1896) and his wife Ottilie from Stein in the district of Fürth. The ashlar facades of the two-story manor house are designed with Neo-Renaissance stylistic elements. The exterior appearance is primarily characterized by the round tower rising high at the southeast corner with a projecting open gallery floor and round stair towers.

The castle was intended to serve as a retirement residence for Lothar von Faber, who had transformed his father's pencil factory, which he took over in 1839, into a world-famous large enterprise. The early death of his only son Wilhelm von Faber, designated as his successor since 1877, forced the then seventy-six-year-old to return to the company headquarters in Stein in 1893. During the construction period of the new castle there, the family of his daughter Ottilie, married to the later company director, Count Alexander zu Castell-Rüdenhausen, moved to Schwarzenbruck, where their children Irmengard Luise (1904–1972) and Roland Lothar Wolfgang (1905–1978) were born. With the completion of the new Faber Castle in Stein in 1906, the Schwarzenbruck Castle lost its significance; today it is used by the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (Workers' Welfare Association) as a retirement and nursing home.