Heuberg Castle, Protected castle in Bruck an der Großglocknerstraße, Austria

Heuberg Castle is a plain two-storey gabled building with a steep hipped roof and a projecting round tower, measuring 28 metres long and 17 metres wide. Its pointed donkey-back portal carries a coat of arms in Untersberg marble of Maximilian Henry of Bavaria, who had the present structure built by 1672. The baroque chapel of 1673 on the second floor has an altar with carvings by Benedikt Faistenberger and an altarpiece of the Visitation by Johann Franz Pereth.

Built before 1100 by the Counts of Sulzbach and called Hof zu Niederheim, the estate passed by donation to Berchtesgaden Abbey and became the seat of its provostry. A 1296 document first names it Heuberg. A fire destroyed it in 1669 and it was rebuilt in simplified form by 1673; after a further fire in 1900 it was renovated, and the Porsche family bought it in 1970.

The name Heuberg appears in a 1296 document, replacing the older "court at Niederheim". The estate served as the seat of a secular provost of Berchtesgaden who administered its Pinzgau holdings. A 1699 dispute records that the provost served wine when contracts were signed, until the innkeeper of St. Georgen complained.

The castle stands above St. Georgen in Bruck an der Großglocknerstraße, about 7 km east of Zell am See on the sunny side of the Salzach valley. It is privately owned and can only be viewed from the outside, so plan to see the facade and the Eselrücken portal from the surrounding grounds.

The baroque chapel on the second floor dates from the 1673 rebuild. Its altar carries carved figures by sculptor Benedikt Faistenberger, and the altarpiece of the Visitation is by Johann Franz Pereth. Above the pointed donkey-back portal sits a coat of arms in Untersberg marble of Maximilian Heinrich of Bavaria, Elector of Cologne, who had the present building raised by 1672.