Schloss Hueb, building in Mettmach, Austria

Schloss Hueb is a three-story building standing on a hillside in Mettmach with a distinctive roof structure called a Schopfwalmdach. The structure shows its age today with an overgrown courtyard and deteriorating elements, though the main entrance still displays carved dates and family coats of arms that reveal details about its past inhabitants.

The castle is first recorded in 1485 when Laczarus Ellrechinger confirmed its existence, then passed to the Dachsberg family through marriage and was built by Rudolph von Dachsberg on the hillside. Over subsequent centuries it changed hands between the Wartenberg, Frankinger, von Handel families and others, eventually coming under the ownership of writer Anton Schott in the early 1900s.

The name Hueb refers to the hill in the Mettmacher Au where the castle stands. Inside, a chapel is said to hold a tablet naming owners and residents: Handel auf Hueb und Hagenau 1776–1847, J. v. Preen 1783–1806, L. Franz von Handel 1855, A. Fr. Mazzetti von Roccamova 1813–1845 and C. Benvenutti von Chiusole 1816–1847.

Schloss Hueb stands on a hill in the Hub district of Mettmach and is not open to visitors: the building is decaying, the courtyard overgrown and the former park overgrown with shrubs. There are no tours, no information boards and no facilities for visitors, and the privately owned house cannot be entered. View it only from the public path and do not cross the overgrown grounds.

The chapel inside the castle is said to hold a tablet naming former owners and residents: Handel auf Hueb und Hagenau 1776–1847, J. v. Preen 1783–1806, L. Franz von Handel 1855, A. Fr. Mazzetti von Roccamova 1813–1845 and C. Benvenutti von Chiusole 1816–1847. The chapel tablet is not visible from outside; the names survive only through this record.