Schomberg Castle

Schomberg Castle is a Neoclassical castle near Stebbach, a district of Gemmingen in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg.

The castle was built west of Streichenberg Castle on a previously undeveloped hilltop from 1820 to 1826 according to plans by Karl August Schwarz for Hans Christoph Graf von Degenfeld-Schonburg. Architect Schwarz was the court architect in Bruchsal and at the same time also built the town hall in nearby Eppingen in the Neoclassical style.

The main portal of the two-and-a-half-story castle, built on a square floor plan, is on the seven-axis east side of the building. The central three window axes of the east and west facades are each grouped in a central risalit. To the west, three round-arched doors lead over a garden terrace into the castle park. The north and south sides are each opened only in four window axes, which are also framed in a central risalit. The sightlines of the castle run north to Steinsberg Castle and south to the Eppingen parish church Unsere Liebe Frau.

Inside the castle, there is a round gallery, spanned by a coffered round vault, whose closing ring forms a skylight that illuminates the gallery in the center of the building with the broadly curved access staircase. Architecturally significant are also the magnificent floor patterns of some rooms.

To the south of the castle is the associated farmyard, to the west and north extends an English landscape park with unusual planting, including bladdernut, giant hogweed, smoke tree, and tulip trees, to the east is a natural forest-park landscape. The Schomberg-Streichenberg area has been under landscape protection since January 31, 1979.

The castle is still inhabited by the Degenfeld family and cannot be visited.