Schloss, Architectural heritage monument in Bavaria, Germany

Schloss Hundshaupten is a four-winged castle complex in the village of Hundshaupten, part of the municipality of Egloffstein in the Forchheim district. It stands on a hill spur of the Franconian Jura plateau jutting into the valley. The upper storey has large sandstone-framed Baroque windows that give it a palace-like appearance.

The castle most likely dates to the 12th century, when a Franconian noble family built it to control the surrounding area. Over the following centuries it was expanded, partly destroyed, and rebuilt several times.

The name Hundshaupten likely combines 'Hund-', referring to a Hunno, a hereditary leader of a hundred, with '-haupten', the hill spur where the castle stands. The Pölnitz family cemetery lies below the castle among old beeches and Jura rocks; the first burial there was Paul Fridolin Kehr in 1944.

Schloss Hundshaupten stands on a hill spur above the village of Hundshaupten, part of the municipality of Egloffstein. Below the castle, in an old beech stand between Jura rock outcrops, lies the family cemetery of the Pölnitz family, where the first burial took place in 1944. The castle was renovated from 2019 to 2025, and the tenth barn (Zehntscheune) in 2011–2012.

Beneath the visible stonework lie older archaeological layers showing the site was settled long before the castle was ever built. Finds from these deeper layers suggest the ground here has been in use for a very long time.