Scheurlsches Castle

The Scheurl family's castle in Fischbach was located on an old beekeeping estate in the Lorenzer Forest and was therefore an imperial fief. Allegedly owned by the Rummel family around 1369, it later passed to Sebald Holzschuher (died 1483). We only learn of a manor house in 1497, when Sebald's children sold the beekeeping estate "with the seat, forecourt and garden" to Michael Behaim. His son Friedrich opened it to the Imperial City of Nuremberg in 1517. Further owners followed in 1532: Anton Koberger, a son of the well-known printer and publisher of the same name, who, among other things, published Schedel's World Chronicle in 1493, but who died in Fischbach in the same year. In 1535, the humanist and Nuremberg city councilor Dr. Christoph II. Scheurl acquired the seat for the widow of his brother Albrecht, who had been murdered in 1531. Since then, the castle has been owned by the family.

The "manor house," destroyed in 1552, was subsequently repaired. In 1603, Hans Christoph Scheurl (1562–1632) received permission from the forest office to "rebuild and enlarge the house at his beekeeping estate," albeit with the restriction that an existing or planned third floor "be removed." The building was then "built from the ground up and of stone" and shows the coats of arms of the builder and his wife Katharina Haller von Hallerstein above the north portal (with a misleading date of 1648). After slight damage in the Thirty Years' War in 1633, it was restored to its old form in 1650 and has remained almost unchanged to this day, as a comparison with the view on a silver goblet from 1603 shows. The access is formed by a two-story sandstone gatehouse, probably built in 1729, with the Scheurl coat of arms above the basket-arch gate.