Ehemaliger Edelsitz

Schloss Weißenberg stands in the village of Weißenberg, part of the municipality of Edelsfeld in the Amberg-Sulzbach district of Bavaria’s Upper Palatinate. Once a medieval castle, it later became a noble residence before turning into a farm. The present building is a two-storey plastered stone structure with a pitched roof, its core dating from the Middle Ages.

The site first appears in a Bavarian tax register of 1224 as Weizzenberch, held by the Breitenstein ministerials near Königstein. By 1280–85 it belonged to Bamberg’s district of Vilseck as a Bamberg fief. The lords of Weißenberg appear as tenants from the 15th century, followed by the Wildenstein and Freudenberg families. In 1705 David Thun of Thunberg became the holder, and by the late 18th century the Grafenreuth barons were in charge. The estate passed to the Podevils family in 1809 and became a rural commune in 1818.

Today the former castle is a working farm at Weißenberg 24. Archaeologists have found medieval and early modern traces, confirming that a castle once stood here. The farmhouse itself preserves medieval walls beneath its later plaster and roof. Visitors can see the plain two-storey building set in the quiet countryside of the Upper Palatinate.