Schloss, Castle in Kohlstein, Bavaria, Germany

Kohlstein Castle stands on a rocky hillock at 440 m above sea level northwest of Tüchersfeld. Its three-storey main building has an irregular triangular east end and a round, domed staircase tower renewed in 1890, linked by a covered passage to a two-storey outbuilding.

Conz of Hirschaid built the hill castle at 440 m in 1485 without permission, obtaining the Bishop of Bamberg's costly approval the following year. It was partly destroyed by fire in the Peasants' War of 1525 and rebuilt by 1536. In 1608 Wolf Philipp Groß von Trockau zu Tüchersfeld was enfeoffed with the castle; after destruction in the Thirty Years' War, a modest new building was erected in 1636, and the main castle was built between 1707 and 1714.

The castle chapel of Sankt Maria, originally a garden house, was converted between 1723 and 1728. The Groß von Trockau family kept the chapel when they sold the castle in 1961, so it still belongs to them while the castle itself has changed hands several times.

The castle is privately owned and cannot be visited; only the exterior on its rocky hillock at 440 m above sea level can be seen from the village of Kohlstein. The associated Schloss- und Ortskapelle remained with the Groß von Trockau family after the 1961 sale and is separate from the castle.

The chapel of St. Maria, which belonged to the castle, was not sold with it in 1961 and remains in the hands of the Groß von Trockau family. It began as a garden house, converted into a chapel between 1723 and 1728.