Schloss Hofhegnenberg, Château in Hofhegnenberg, Steindorf, Germany

Schloss Hofhegnenberg is a four-winged castle complex around a rectangular inner courtyard on the Roßberg above Steindorf. Its two- to three-storey wings have saddle roofs, and two square corner towers rise in the northwest and southeast; the northeast tower carries an octagon with an onion dome, the southeast one neo-Gothic battlements. The west gatehouse, altered around 1790, has a long passage into the courtyard and a coat of arms stone dated 1557 above the gate.

Around 1300 the Lords of Hegnenberg moved from their tower-hill castle at Althegnenberg to a new hilltop fortress on the Roßberg, first documented in 1354. In 1542 Duke Wilhelm IV enfeoffed his illegitimate son Georg von Hegnenberg with the estate; Georg rebuilt much of it by 1557, and the gate bears a coat of arms stone of that year. The southwest tower was truncated around 1790, when the west gate was remodelled in neo-Gothic style.

The name Hegnenberg comes from the ministerial family first recorded in the late 12th century; the Hofmark they held kept its extent unchanged into the 19th century. From 1988 to 2006 the castle served as a filming location for the television series Forsthaus Falkenau. Each year in early December a Christmas market is held in the castle courtyard, when visitors and residents of the surrounding area are allowed onto the grounds.

The estate is private and not open to the public; the English park and castle can only be viewed from outside. The one regular exception is the Christmas market held in the castle courtyard in early December, when visitors from the surrounding area are allowed in. The site lies on the Roßberg above Steindorf, at the edge of Hofhegnenberg.

The medieval castle was long outgrown by the palace: its former bergfried, a tall southwest tower, still dominated the complex until it was truncated around 1790. Its earlier appearance, with a high tent roof and onion-domed corner turrets on the gatehouse, survives in a 1701 copper engraving by Michael Wening.