Jagdschloß Eulbach, Hunting château in Würzberg, Michelstadt, Germany
Jagdschloß Eulbach consists of two rectangular buildings joined on the east by a narrow connecting wing, forming a courthouse open to the west. The northern hunting lodge has white-painted wooden shingles on its upper floor, green shutters, a red decorated cornice, and a six-sided corner tower with a steep roof. The southern building, once a riding stable and forester's house, is timber-framed on a stone base and topped by a small bell tower.
Count Franz I zu Erbach-Erbach built a single-storey hunting house at Eulbach in 1771, on the site of a village abandoned after the Thirty Years' War. Around 1800 it was raised with a timber-framed storey and used as the family's summer residence. In 1846 Count Eberhard rebuilt it into a small castle with corner turrets in a quasi-Gothic timber style, and the Erbach-Erbach family has lived there since.
The name Eulbach comes from the village of Eylenbach, recorded in 1357 and abandoned after the Thirty Years' War; the count's estate replaced it after 1650. The building is still lived in by the Erbach-Erbach family, so it is seen from outside, along the B47 and the paths of the Eulbacher Park.
The castle stands on the B47 between Michelstadt and Amorbach, at 510 m on the pass height; the site is not open to the public as the Erbach-Erbach family lives there. The Eulbach park and the remains of the Limes rampart and tower foundations lie in the surrounding forest.
In the 18th century the grounds included a vast wildlife park that enabled the family's hunting pursuits. Today this park has shrunk considerably, but some of the original forest areas still shape the landscape around the castle.
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