Schloss lebenberg was originally the seat of minor landed nobility their stately home was intended as the expression of a lifestyle that rose above the lives of common citizenry and farmers the original name of the estate was pfaffenberg as evidenced in the chronicled land holdings of bamberg abbey it is not quite clear where the name we know today lebenberg actually comes from but some think that it derives from the old high german hlev hill the first nobles to reside here wer