Tennenlohe Castle

The castle, which had already fallen into disrepair in the 14th century, had no successor for a long time. The description of the Nuremberg landscape from 1504 repeatedly mentions Tennenlohe without mentioning a seat, just as the damage lists of the Second Margrave War of 1552/53 do not. The first indirect reference to the existence of a manor house is given by the memorial plaque of Hans Christoph Tetzel (1562/63–1601) and his wife Martha née Hassolt for the renovation of the Tennenlohe church in 1590. It is also reported that Tetzel "stayed a lot in Tennenlohe".

Presumably, the property was divided between his two daughters. Maria Magdalena Tetzel (1585–1642) married Endres Schilling, her sister Maria married Justus von Oyrl in 1619 (his father Philipp built the Fembohaus in Nuremberg). Their daughter Maria Magdalena von Oyrl (1619–1686) married Wilhelm Bartholomäus Peller in 1642, who apparently also acquired the other half of the castle, which was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War (presumably 1634), in 1653. In his estate inventory of 1670, the "country estate in Tennenlohe" was valued at 2,500 guilders. From his widow, it passed to her daughter Maria Sabina (1651–1705), who married Christoph Jakob Behaim in 1668. He and his brother were elevated to the hereditary Imperial Baronial status in 1681.

The manor house, rebuilt after the war, was, according to a copper engraving from around 1660 (which was probably executed in reverse), only a single-story building with a half-timbered gable; in front of it stood a draw well. In the spacious, partly walled, partly fenced courtyard, a long half-timbered barn was also built. In 1690, the now widowed Baroness von Behaim decided to erect a new manor house. At the old location, but on a significantly smaller footprint of only 41 by 26 feet (approx. 12.3 by 7.8 meters) instead of the previous approx. 22 by 13.5 meters, a three-story, tower-like manor house with the four corner turrets frequently observed in the Nuremberg area was built. The gable roof bore a roof turret with a Welsche Haube and a weather vane.

Allegedly, the seat passed to Melchior Christian von Mayersbach as early as 1699, from whose estate it was acquired in 1719 by Christoph Jakob Peller (1683–1729). His daughter Maria Anna married Jakob Gottlieb Rudolf Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach in 1737, who had the small castle still standing in Tennenlohe built from 1777 onwards. In his building application, he initially asked for permission "for the repair and expansion of my manor seat", in which a gable and the roof structure were to be completely renewed. On this occasion, he wanted to "remedy the lack of space in this building ... somewhat" and expected even fewer objections, as "the house was formerly twice as long and as wide as ... Mrs. Behaim ... had it built at the end of the last century". In the course of the construction work, it allegedly turned out that the almost hundred-year-old building was far too dilapidated. Volckamer extended his application, stating that complete demolition and new construction were indispensable, which, however, was to be about 3½ meters wider. The newly submitted, modified plan shows the manor house as it has essentially been preserved to this day, namely as a two-story sandstone ashlar building with a hipped mansard roof.

In 1780, Johann Albrecht Andreas Adam von Volckamer inherited the property. After the death of his widow Maria Philippina in 1826, it finally passed to the Klein family in 1835, who set up a guesthouse in the castle in 1860 and still operate it today.