Schloss Escheberg, Medieval château in Zierenberg, Germany

Schloss Escheberg is a three-storey, horseshoe-shaped manor house at Escheberg near Zierenberg, finished in the 19th century in Biedermeier style with a uniform white plaster facade. Its medieval cellar vaults suggest an earlier moated castle, and the main front was widened from five to seven window axes in 1789 under Carl Otto Johann von der Malsburg. The family von der Malsburg still lives there.

The cellar vaults of the horseshoe-shaped, three-storey house point to an earlier fortified water castle. Around 1530 a timber-framed main building with oriel windows was erected. In 1740 the estate yard north of the house was laid out with an administrative building, barn, stables and utility buildings. In 1789 Carl Otto Johann von der Malsburg widened the main front from five to seven window axes and added the gables, portal and weathervane turret.

On the third floor, next to the library, the Poetenstube remains unchanged and is not open to the public. Karl Otto von der Malsburg, younger brother of the Romantic writer Ernst Friedrich Georg Otto von der Malsburg, held literary circles there. Emanuel Geibel stayed at the castle in 1841 and 1842; he dedicated the poem cycle Escheberg to Henriette von der Malsburg, who married Count von Holnstein in 1852.

Schloss Escheberg is inhabited by the von der Malsburg family and, apart from the English landscape garden, cannot be entered. The park, part of the European Garden Heritage Network since 2009, is open to the public; a wooden pavilion, the Geibeltempel, stands on the slope north of the farmyard and gives an overview of the grounds. A golf course is operated southwest and south of the house.

The 1790 greenhouse east of the house is now called the Orangery; its low wings were fully glazed until the 1930s. The taller central section carries a shallow dome, and a semicircular bed of shrubs and flowers lies in front of it.