Schloss Höllrich, Castle in Höllrich, Karsbach, Germany

Schloss Höllrich is a former water castle in Höllrich, part of Karsbach. It originally had four two-storey wings with hipped roofs around a courtyard; two survive complete and one partly. Two of the four round corner towers with onion domes remain. A two-storey gabled gatehouse projects from the south wing, reached by an arched bridge over the now dry moat.

Veit von Thüngen is credited with building the former water castle, and the Freiherren von Thüngen had it rebuilt as a moated palace in the second half of the 16th century, around 1560. The west wing was remodelled in Baroque style from 1720 to 1724. In 1883 the Thüngen rent office at Zeitlofs sold the entire contents to the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts; the castle stood empty after 1961 and a demolition permit existed in 1962 but was never used.

The name Höllrich comes from the village, first documented in 1317, and the castle was the seat of the Thüngen family, who sold its entire furnishings to the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts in 1883. Today the gatehouse bears two alliance coats of arms, one above the portal and one facing the courtyard, marking the noble families who held the estate.

The complex stands in Höllrich, a district of Karsbach in the Main-Spessart area of Lower Franconia. The former moat is preserved but now waterless, and the gatehouse is reached over an arched bridge. Holiday rooms can be rented in the building, so parts of the site are in private use; the grounds are uneven in places.

Two of the four round corner towers with onion domes survive, and the moat is preserved in full but now dry. The gatehouse projects forward from the south wing and is reached by an arched bridge over that former moat. Above the off-centre two-leaf portal is an alliance coat of arms, with a second one at the passage into the courtyard.