They donated and sold the building with all its property to the monastery in Waldsassen in January 1346. However, the monastery relinquished the castle to the Burgraves of Nuremberg just over a year later. The lords of Gera owned the complex in about 1500. Heinrich XIV of Gera zu Schleiz (1500-1538) granted it to the Dobeneck zu Jössnitz brothers as a fief in 1501. Rudolphstein now welcomes people as an attractive hotel. A gabled roof covers a collection of structural elements dating from very different periods. The enclosed eastern wing, which takes the form of a semi-circle and looks rather like a bastion, probably dates back to the 15th century, while the western part and tower are from the 16th/17th century; a three-storey extension was added in the 20th century. The estate also includes a hunting house, stables for visiting horses (18th century), a dance house and a dovecote (19th century). 


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Die Burg Schauenstein ist eine Spornburg in der Stadt Schauenstein im Frankenwald im Landkreis Hof.

Sie wurde um 1230 von Otto I. von Schaumberg erbaut, der sich fortan nach seiner neuen Burg im Frankenwald Otto von Schauenstein nannte. Er war seit 1222 Ministeriale der Herzöge von Andechs-Meranien und starb 1237. Sein Sohn Eberhard I. und seine Enkel Tuto und Heinrich III. von Schauenstein besaßen die Burg bis 1271. Danach gingen Burg und Gericht zu Schauenstein auf Heinrichs Tochter über. Sie heiratete Konrad von Wolfstriegel, wodurch Schauenstein in den Besitz dieses Geschlechts und damit in den Einflussbereich der Vögte von Weida und später zu den Burggrafen von Nürnberg kam. Danach wurde sie Sitz der Amtmänner von Brandenburg-Kulmbach, deren erster Erhart von Machwitz war.

Die Burg ist seit 1988 Sitz des Oberfränkischen Feuerwehrmuseums und des Heimatmuseums Schauenstein. Im Schlosspark befindet sich die Felsformation Wachende Jungfrau.

Schloss Schauenstein

Burgk Castle (c. 1403) on the River Saale is a schloss and former castle in the county of Saale-Orla-Kreis in the Thuringian Highlands of Germany which, today, houses a museum that portrays the princely lifestyle of years gone by. From the time of its construction in the Middle Ages to 1945 it belonged to the House of Reuß.

The schloss and village of Burgk lie on an exposed site on a rock plateau above the village of Burgkhammer and the eponymous reservoir on a bend in the Saale. It is nine kilometres from the A 9 motorway (Berlin–Munich).

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The well preserved schloss still has the character of a castle, with many medieval details. For example, the original palas has survived in entirety, as has the bergfried and both stone bridges that lead to the inner ring and palas. Formerly both bridges were drawbridges. On the outer bridge, below the Amtshaus ("district office"), a toll tariff board is displayed. In 2016, during the opening of a Baroque wall, a medieval parlour or Bohlenstube was found, dating to 1402.

When, in 1739, the second gatehouse was demolished, a chamber and a dog were found. This was probably offered as a sacrifice during construction about 400 years ago and walled alive into the building. Today the mummified dog is displayed in the entrance behind a glass window.

The castle chapel and kitchens are well preserved. Particularly notable is the kitchen chimney. At the western end of the site is the Red Tower (Rote Turm) with a timber-framed top in the Late Renaissance style. The entrance to the Red Tower is along a covered chemin de ronde, from which three others run along the walls.

In the centre of the mid-18th century French-style park south of the schloss is the Sophienlust pavilion; a late Baroque/Classicist style building.