Schloßstraße 47, Altes Schloss, Castle in Sugenheim, Germany

Altes Schloss in Sugenheim is a castle combining medieval and Renaissance elements, featuring stone walls, towers, and symmetrically arranged windows across its main front. The building spans multiple levels with distinct rooms that originally served both residential and administrative purposes.

The Freiherrn von Seckendorff acquired a closed lordship complex from the Castell and Hohenlohe feudal lords and built a castle here. The three-winged complex around a small inner courtyard, with four massive corner towers, was newly built around 1600. After the Thirty Years' War, numerous Protestant exiles from Austria settled here and contributed substantially to its reconstruction.

The castle's small inner courtyard is decorated with a gallery, and four massive corner towers frame the three-winged complex built around 1600. After the Thirty Years' War, Protestant refugees expelled from Austria settled here and contributed substantially to the rebuilding. Today seven rooms display dolls, dollhouses, doll kitchens, rocking horses, tin toys, games, children's books and tin figures.

The Altes Schloss stands at Schloßstraße 47 in Sugenheim, in the Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim district of Middle Franconia. The three wings enclose a narrow courtyard open to the west, so visitors enter from that side; the round corner towers face west, north and east, the octagonal one south. The complex is a listed Bavarian monument, number D-5-75-165-36.

The four corner towers were shortened to roof height and given flat roofs between 1806 and 1812; in 1844 the whole complex was painted in the Tudor style. After roughly 150 years of vacancy, Jan and Manuela Kube bought the castle and restored it in line with monument protection rules.