Beerfurther Schloesschen, Medieval castle ruin in Beerfurth, Germany

The Beerfurther Schlösschen is the ruin of a medieval tower castle on a wooded spur at 363.4 m above sea level, east of Kirch-Beerfurth and south of the Hutzwiese hamlet. Its core was a square tower 14 m on a side with walls about 2 m thick, surrounded by a ring wall set roughly 5 m away on the south, east and north sides and about 10 m on the west. Ditches and ramparts remain visible, along with a few stretches of the ring wall to the northwest.

No written sources document the castle's history. Its first record dates from 1740, when Beerfurth residents carried off stones for a schoolhouse and the Erbach government banned this with little success. Eduard Anthes excavated in 1887 and found few objects, suggesting the site was never finished. Its dating is therefore uncertain; its construction may mark a predecessor of Schloss Reichenberg, built around 1200.

The ruins display features of medieval construction through surviving sandstone blocks arranged in multiple layers along sections of the ring wall. Visitors can directly observe these building techniques in the remaining masonry.

The ruins lie on a wooded spur at 363.4 m above sea level, east of Kirch-Beerfurth and about 500 m west-northwest of Gasthaus Vierstöck. The ascent follows Wanderweg 7 (white circle) from the end of Kirchstraße, continuing Rundwanderweg 5 from Beerfurth. The tower core is not accessible; the surrounding ramparts and the outer moat can be seen from the path.

The 1853–57 hand-drawn map of the Kirch-Beerfurth district labels the site "Kirchbeerfurther Schloß" and shows an oversized, multi-stepped ground plan, but the name was apparently struck out again soon afterwards. Excavations in 1887 by Eduard Anthes yielded so few finds that the castle is thought to have been left unfinished.