Stein Castle (Bavaria)

The romantic figure of the legendary robber knight, Hainz von Stein dem Wilden, is closely associated with the castle.

He is supposed to have lived in the castle in the early 13th century and was written about for the first time by Lorenz Huebner in 1783 in a "tragic drama about the fatherland".

In 1845 Amélie de Beauharnais, widow of the emperor of Brazil, bought Stein Castle for herself and her daughter.

In 1928 the Arco-Zinneberg had to cut down the great St. George's Forest in order to sell the wood to get out of debt.

Upper house, rock castle and lower house are today the property of the newly built Stein Castle Brewery (Schlossbrauerei Stein), founded in 1907, which has been in the ownership of the Wiskott family since 1934.