Schloss Kirchschönbach, Baroque castle in Kirchschönbach, Prichsenstadt, Germany

Schloss Kirchschönbach is a Baroque castle in Prichsenstadt designed around 1700 by master builder Joseph Greissing from Würzburg. The two-story building features twelve windows on each level, a broad hipped roof with ornamental edging, Tuscan columns at the corners, and a main entrance facing the garden crowned with a broken pediment displaying the Schönborn family coat of arms.

The castle was built around 1700 following destruction during war in 1525, when the Guttenberg family erected a new Baroque structure on the site. It was later sold to the Würzburg Church in 1789, acquired by Count Friedrich Carl von Schönborn-Wiesentheid in the 1800s, and eventually used by the Oberzeller Sisters as Marienhaus during the 20th century.

From 1926 the Oberzeller Sisters ran a Marienhaus here, a social institution of the Congregation of the Holy Childhood of Jesus from Würzburg. Until 2018 the castle housed a centre for spirituality, art and culture under their direction; the sisters sold the building in 2020.

The castle stands in a spacious park in Kirchschönbach, a district of Prichsenstadt. It was sold by the Oberzell Sisters in 2020 and has stood empty since 2018, when the centre for spirituality, art and culture they ran there closed, so the interior is not open to visitors. The building is listed as a Bavarian architectural monument; the remains of earlier structures in the ground are protected as an archaeological monument.

Master builder Joseph Greissing from Würzburg gave the castle its distinctive character through Tuscan columns and a broad hipped roof that set it apart from other Baroque buildings in the region. Visitors can recognize the careful architectural planning in the pilasters at the corners and the broken pediment bearing the Schönborn coat of arms.