Schloss Eyerlohe, Baroque château in Fränkisches Freilandmuseum, Germany

Schloss Eyerlohe is a Baroque country residence with a mansard roof and rendered wall panels, now located in the Franconian open-air museum near Bad Windsheim. The single-story structure features a central garden room flanked by two narrower side wings, with the cooking area positioned in the elevated basement level.

Friedrich Carl Alexander von Eyb had Ansbach master carpenter Hans Zehntner build him a small summer palace on his Eyerlohe estate in 1778, after which he styled himself "von Eyb zu Eyerlohe und Wiedersbach". In 1782 he was enfeoffed with the Dörzbach lordship and lived there; only his brother Friedrich Ludwig is recorded at Eyerlohe from 1783. By 1806 a farm manager used the house, and it later passed to farmers as a dwelling with a tavern.

The garden hall was originally painted in malachite green, a colour chosen for the ground-floor room at the centre of the house. The building follows the French model of a maison de plaisance, a small pleasure house rather than a working estate. Its 10 by 12 metre footprint left so little room that the kitchen was placed in the cellar.

The building is modest in size and easily viewed in a short visit as part of the museum tour. Keep in mind that interior spaces are compact and stairs to the basement level can be steep and narrow.

The building did not stand in Aurach itself but in Eyerlohe, a hamlet belonging to the municipality of Aurach. Its footprint measures only 10 by 12 metres, so the kitchen was placed in the cellar for lack of room. The garden room on the ground floor was originally painted in malachite green.