Rittergut Kürbitz, Manor estate in Kürbitz, Germany

Rittergut Kürbitz is a former manor estate of which only part of the mansion survives. Its core is a medieval residential tower with an overhanging half-timbered upper storey and a steep gable roof, enlarged in the early 19th century by hipped-roof extensions on the north and east sides.

The Feilitzsch family, named after its seat near Hof, held land in Kürbitz around 1300. In the late 15th century Jobst von Feilitzsch acquired local estates and founded the feudal estate, whose fortified house at the White Elster crossing became the mansion. The family kept it until 1945; Urban Caspar von Feilitzsch had it rebuilt as a residential castle in the 17th century.

The mansion's baroque room layout survives in its essentials, but the building is privately owned and fenced off; the grounds, house and park are closed to the public. The estate's name recalls the Feilitzsch family, who held Kürbitz from around 1300 until 1945. After 1945 the house sheltered German expellees, and until 1987 its ground floor held a school kitchen and the village library.

The grounds, the mansion and the park are closed to the public; the sale to a Reichenbach investor in 2012 was followed by conversion of the ground floor into a flat and a ban on public access. The promised public use of the park, sold in 2013, was not kept. The building can therefore only be viewed from outside.

The grounds, mansion and park are closed to the public: after the municipality sold the house to a Reichenbach investor in April 2012, the ground floor was converted into a flat and access to the site was forbidden. A promised public right of way through the park, sold in September 2013, was not kept either.