Gleisenau Castle

Gleisenau Castle is located on the edge of the Ebelsbach district of Gleisenau in the Haßberge district in Lower Franconia. The former aristocratic seat now serves as a primary school, and the outbuildings house municipal facilities.

Originally, the place belonged to the Ebelsbach line of the Lords of Rotenhan. In 1417, the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg granted the fief with the associated mill to the patrician Hans Dynter. In 1465, Heinrich Fuchs von Wallburg acquired Gleisenau from Jörg Kotner. In 1767, the Fuchs family sold the village and castle together with Ebelsbach to the Cathedral Dean Otto Philipp Erhart Ernst Groß von Trockau. In 1968, the property passed from the Groß family to the Schweinfurt company Kugelfischer, which converted the building into a company training center. In 1994, the municipality of Ebelsbach was able to acquire the former summer and hunting residence. The outbuildings now house the municipal administration and the administrative community of Ebelsbach. The main building houses the primary school, which is sometimes referred to as the "most beautiful primary school in Bavaria" due to its elegant ambiance.

The stately manor house was built in 1772/73 under Otto Philipp Erhart Ernst Groß von Trockau. The old moated castle from 1548 had to be completely demolished for this purpose; only parts of the farm buildings remained (dated 1609). The other outbuildings are dated 1771, thus they were built immediately before the new construction of the castle and the castle chapel on the village street.