Schmausen Castle

The very wealthy red beer brewer Georg Schmaus, who owned profitable quarries and who gave the Reuhelberg its new name Schmausenbuck, acquired a large garden in 1667 on today's Ziegenstraße, where a manor house is said to have once stood. He had an existing building, allegedly a former Voithaus, replaced in 1680/81 by a new two-story building. It was not until his daughter Anna Susanne that a new manor house and a magnificent Baroque garden were built at some distance in 1682. In 1692, a coach house was built next to the manor house, with the coach house roof intended to be attached to the uppermost floor of the main building, which the Lorenzi Forest Office, however, prohibited.

The new building in 1682 was a two-story solid sandstone ashlar structure, whose appearance is characterized by volute gables, articulated with a shell-shaped gable top, cornice bands and attached vases, and the polygonal stair tower.

The red beer brewer's daughter married the manufacturer Johann Daniel van Lierd in 1693. After a scandal involving an attempted kidnapping of Lierd's daughter, Mrs. van Lierd sold the manor in 1725 to the Nuremberg apothecary Johann Wilhelm Neubauer. He or his son Lorenz Wilhelm, who died in 1752, may have commissioned the subsequent stucco work in rooms on the first floor. In 1762, a nephew of Lorenz Wilhelm Neubauer's wife, the Brandenburg court and district accountant Johann Georg Friedrich von Hagen, founder of the Nuremberg Pug Order, acquired the property. The court councilor allegedly still owned it around 1774; according to other traditions, he sold it in 1768 to his brother-in-law (?), the banker Johann Georg von Scheidlin (1726–1792), who had a still-preserved garden house built in the southeastern garden area. A new Voithaus had already been built around 1765.

After Johann Georg's son David, also a banker, died in 1811, the von Scheidlin family kept the property until 1830. They were briefly followed by a Mrs. von Wahler [cf. Oberbürg]. Already in 1831, Schmausenschloss was bought by the merchant Albert Johann Cramer, father of Theodor Freiherr von Cramer-Klett, founder of MAN. After further changes of ownership, it passed to Kommerzienrat Beck-Brass in 1894. In 1926, the city of Nuremberg acquired the manor. In 1957, the large castle park was divided; the larger, southern area with the historic garden house became a public park, while the smaller part remained with the castle. Today, it houses a branch of the Nuremberg Music School.