Wiesentheid Castle

The complex includes the Baroque town centre with the parish church and the eponymous castle of the Counts of Schönborn.

[1] After acquiring the castle in 1547, Valentin Fuchs von Dornheim soon made it his primary residence.

Wiesentheid thus received its own seat and a vote in the Franconian Counts College (German: Fränkische Grafenkolleg).

Rudolf Franz Erwein von Schönborn, who took over control in 1704, built the castle in its current form and converted it into the new residence of the Counts.

[5] From 1711 to 1720, the castle was rebuilt under the direction of the Jesuit priest Nikolaus Loyson (1676–1720), who also remodeled another of the Schönborn family's estate, Schloss Weißenstein.

He commissioned cabinet maker, Johann Georg Neßtfell [de], to make furniture for the castle.