Cultural heritage D-3-6835-0065 in Seubersdorf in der Oberpfalz

A small castle once stood in Ittelhofen, a village in Seubersdorf within the Upper Palatinate region of Bavaria. The site traces its origins to at least 1205, when Rudger of Utilhoven appears in records. By the early 14th century the Ittelhofen family held the estate, later linked to the Schweppermann dynasty and the lordship of Deining. During the Reformation the family refused to convert and left for Austria. In 1480 the scholar Peter Apian bought the castle, and it passed to his son Philipp and then to the Notthafft family. In 1783 the counts of Holnstein demolished the building. Only two traces remain of the three-storey structure. The former castle church of St Jakobus, built in 1730–31 by the von Grünsteins, survives as a church today. Beneath the ground lies a single medieval cellar vault, the last remnant of the castle’s foundations. The site is protected as archaeological monument D-3-6835-0065 in Seubersdorf’s list of monuments. The present St Jakobus church stands nearby as a separate listed building. Visitors find a quiet village lane where the church marks the castle’s former location. The 18th-century church itself has simple plastered walls and a small bell tower. A low mound in the churchyard shows where the castle cellar once stood, now covered by grass. The surrounding Oberpfalz countryside offers rolling farmland and wooded hills typical of the region.