Yellow Castle Heroldsberg

While the White, Green, and Red Castles are grouped closely together west and south of the church, the Yellow Castle is comparatively remote from the town center, located on Hans-Sachs-Strasse. The area north of the rectory was acquired in 1486 by Endres Geuder from Fritz Klugel. Between 1580 and 1611, Hieronymus Geuder erected the present manor house on the foundations of a predecessor building, possibly destroyed in the Second Margrave War. This may have been the mighty tower depicted to the right of the church choir in Dürer's drawing from 1510 [cf. Heroldsberg I], although it is also interpreted as part of the churchyard fortifications. In the ceiling area of the "Garden Room," the coats of arms of Geuder and Koler, along with the year 1680, commemorate renovations carried out at that time by Johann Adam Georg Christoph Geuder, framed in stucco.

Further construction measures were undertaken after 1750 by Johann Adam Geuder, Losunger (mayor) of the city of Nuremberg and thus one of its most important personalities. He had the hip roof and the second upper floor of the plastered solid building replaced by a hipped mansard roof; the risalits on both long sides and the flat window frames are also likely attributable to him. Johann Adam resided in the Yellow Castle from 1752 to 1789, received delegations here, and sought to secure the independence of the imperial city during a politically turbulent time.

The castle remained in the possession of the Geuder family until 1955/57, when publisher Karl Barromäus Glock acquired it from Luise Lauter, née Geuder, and renovated it in 1958. Glock had a valuable Baroque stove, the so-called "Lion Stove," brought to the Yellow Castle from the manor house in neighboring Kleingeschaidt. The Willibald-Pirckheimer-Kuratorium established its administrative headquarters in the castle. In 1987, the former manor house came into the possession of the Nuremberg family Böhm, who renovated it again in 1988. The garden received a late Baroque gate from the Tucher Garden at Maxtor in Nuremberg.