Pfinzing Castle

The Waldstrom family, which for a time held the imperial forester's dignity, had already acquired several Feuchter estates in the 14th century.

It was not until shortly before 1520 that Gabriel Nützel, who also inherited the "Castle in the Carthusian Pond", acquired the burnt ruins, but ceded them to a Bernhard Glotz.

The new owner must have begun rebuilding soon after his purchase: in 1521 there is already talk of "Glotz's newly built house and manor".

But already in 1530 it was sold to the Nuremberg citizen Hanns Pfann and his stepson Christof Mordeisen and only shortly after to Kaspar Koberger.

The buyer was the patrician Georg Tetzel, born in 1529, who married in 1558 and apparently carried out the reconstruction of the Pfinzing Castle in the following decade.

During the Thirty Years' War he repeatedly had to put up with the manor house being occupied, looted and the furnishings demolished.

After the death of Tobias Unterholzer, the guardians of his still minor son sold the seat in 1650 to Friedrich Otto Freiherr von Herberstein [de], who as a Protestant had been forced to leave his native Carinthia.

Around 1900, however, Scherrbacher had to file for bankruptcy, and through forced sale the Nuremberg stucco business Otto Schier acquired the property.

Above the entrance to the house on the inner side, two coats of arms with the date 1568 commemorate the builder Georg Tetzel, his first wife Barbara Fütterer and the second, Magdalena Pfinzing.