Can visitors enter Schloss Ilmbach?

The castle remains a private residence of the Schönborn family, and no visiting information is available.

What stood on the site before Schloss Ilmbach?

A Carthusian monastery occupied the location from 1453 until it was replaced by the current hunting lodge in 1873.

What is distinctive about the architecture of Schloss Ilmbach?

A two-story building of cut sandstone with a tall saddle roof and a round corner stair tower topped by a pointed spire.

Where is Schloss Ilmbach located?

In the hamlet of Ilmbach, away from Prichsenstadt, in the Landkreis Kitzingen in Bavaria.

Schloss Ilmbach

Ilmbach Castle

Prichsenstadt

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Schloss Ilmbach stands in Prichsenstadt (Landkreis Kitzingen), in Bavaria, Germany. The building is a listed Baudenkmal. Its opening hours and prices have not been verified at the source yet.

Schloss Ilmbach stands in the hamlet bearing its name, set apart from the town of Prichsenstadt in the Steigerwald forest. A Carthusian monastery had occupied the site from 1453 until a hunting lodge of cut sandstone rose from its ruins in 1873, following secularization. The Schönborn family, who built it, still use the house as a residence and hunting seat today. Its most distinctive feature is a round corner stair tower topped with a pointed spire, along with the surrounding wall that incorporates remnants of the old monastery enclosure.

What to know

Schloss Ilmbach remains a private residence of the Schönborn family, which limits access to the interior.
No visiting hours or admission fees are documented for this site.
The building stands in an isolated hamlet away from the center of Prichsenstadt, within the Steigerwald forest.
It is listed as a Baudenkmal in Bavaria, as are the underground remains of the earlier structures on the site.

Where this château is

Prichsenstadt · Landkreis Kitzingen · Bayern

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Address

Ilmbach 1, 97357 Prichsenstadt

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Heritage status: Baudenkmal in Bayern

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Can visitors enter Schloss Ilmbach?: The castle remains a private residence of the Schönborn family, and no visiting information is available.
What stood on the site before Schloss Ilmbach?: A Carthusian monastery occupied the location from 1453 until it was replaced by the current hunting lodge in 1873.
What is distinctive about the architecture of Schloss Ilmbach?: A two-story building of cut sandstone with a tall saddle roof and a round corner stair tower topped by a pointed spire.
Where is Schloss Ilmbach located?: In the hamlet of Ilmbach, away from Prichsenstadt, in the Landkreis Kitzingen in Bavaria.