Schloss Geyern, Medieval castle in Bergen, Germany

Schloss Geyern is a two-storey hipped-roof building with four corner towers and a battlemented central tower, given neo-Gothic forms around 1870/75. Its core is the margravial Amtshaus of 1756, and surviving parts of the medieval Bergfried are built into it. A bridge from the 18th or 19th century leads to the estate, which also has a 19th-century garden.

The castle stands on the foundations of a margravial office building of 1756 and was given its neo-Gothic form around 1870/75. Its predecessor, Burg Geyern, is dated by its layout to the 12th or 13th century; held by the Schenken von Geyern, ministeriales of the Eichstätt bishops, it was taken in 1260 in a dispute between the Pappenheim marshals and the Bavarian dukes and then left to decay. The family moved to a second castle in the village, on whose remains the present Schloss was later built. From 1594 the Margrave of Ansbach was co-owner, installing the related Herren von Ehenheim as his feudatories alongside the Schenken.

The Schenken von Geyern, ministeriales of the Eichstätt bishops, gave the castle and village their name; the family was still called Herren von Hofstetten when their first castle was taken in 1260. The estate remains in the hands of their descendants, and the cemetery holds the family's hereditary burial plot with a cast-iron memorial cross for Ludwig Freiherr Schenk von Geyern, made around 1920.

The castle remains in private ownership by descendants of the Schenken von Geyern family, so the interior is not open to visitors. The exterior can be viewed and photographed from the surrounding areas.

The medieval tower known as the Bergfried was preserved and integrated into the neo-Gothic structure built in the 1800s. Also noteworthy is an 18th-century bridge that connects different sections of the estate.