Schloss Oberzwieselau, Castle in Lindberg, Germany
Schloss Oberzwieselau is a two-storey manor house with a small roof turret, plaster detailing, a hipped roof to the north and a gable wall to the south. The 1830s building adjoins the surviving half of the 1705 stone house on its south side. Outbuildings include a carriage shed with round-arched openings, a rubble-stone former stable linked by a basket-arch gate, and a Swiss-style house; twenty historic rooms and an Art Nouveau hall lie inside.
The current castle was built in 1839 under Benedikt von Poschinger's direction, though records mention the site from 1528 when it was sold to Freiherr Johann von Degenberg. The transformation into its present form took place roughly 300 years after the location was first documented.
The castle served as a key administrative hub for the region's glass manufacturing industry until 1918. From 1840 to 1865, it operated a school for glassmakers' children, reflecting its deep ties to local craft traditions.
The property sits at Oberzwieselau 1 and remains in private ownership today. While the interior is off-limits to visitors, the exterior and surrounding park can be viewed from outside the grounds.
The 18-hole golf course opened in 1993 on 100 hectares that had previously been farmland, forest or park. The estate had been hit in 1929 by a windthrow disaster that destroyed 200,000 cubic metres of timber and almost 1,000 hectares of agricultural and forest land; the Zwieselauer Waldbahn was built to haul the wood away and ran until 1958.
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