Old Castle (Rottenbauer)

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The Old Castle , also called Rebstock Castle , was a late medieval castle that was expanded as a castle at the beginning of the 16th century and demolished at the beginning of the 20th century. It was the first aristocratic residence in Rottenbauer , today a district of Würzburg in Lower Franconia , Bavaria .

location

The manor was a few meters south of today's Lower Castle in Rottenbauer. The Niederungsburg was built as a moated castle according to its shape and location .

history

The castle or the already walled fortress house was built in the 12th or 13th century. In 1376 the local lords, the von Rebstock family , were mentioned in a document as the castle owner .

From 1430 the place came into the possession of the Franconian noble family Wolffskeel . In 1505 Wolf von Wolfskeel expanded the old castle. His descendants Hans and Jacob von Wolfskeel shared the castle and estate in a family inheritance contract in 1569 . To the north of what was then the castle gate, they had the later Lower Castle built around 1575 and expanded in the Renaissance style at the end of the 16th century .

The Rottenbaurer line of Wolfskeels died out in 1801 with Johann Philipp Jakob Heinrich von Wolfskeel in the male line. In his will he bequeathed both the lower and the upper castle as entails to his daughters Amalia von Redwitz and Johanna Groß von Trockau . However, this will was challenged in a process that lasted until 1878 by the Reichenberg imperial barons line of Wolfskeel; At the end of the legal dispute, the lower and the old castle went to the Reichenberg line of the Wolfskeels, the upper castle to the von Redwitz family.

19 years later, in 1897, the Lower and Old Castle were sold to the Herbolsheimer farming family, who had the Old Castle laid down at the beginning of the 20th century when it was probably in disrepair to become a farm or estate on the site to be able to build. A barn was built next to it.

description

The property was a rectangular structure about 35 by 40 meters. Its foundation walls are assumed to be under the old barn or the courtyard area. More detailed information on the building structure of the property is not known.

The southern defensive walls , which have been partially preserved, are counted among the buildings of the old castle.

The Burgstall Altes Schloss is part of the Bavarian ground monument D-6-6225-0368 Archaeological findings in the area of ​​the fortified early modern former Lower Castle in Rottenbauer with a medieval core.

Todays use

The old castle only exists as a castle stable . The commercial buildings southwest of the Lower Castle and close to its location were converted into apartments with adapted architecture at the beginning of the 21st century. An archaeological excavation and the fixing of the foundation walls of the old castle are not to be expected.

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literature

Related to the history of the Lower Palace and its predecessor:

  • Anton Rahrbach, Jörg Schöffl, Otto Schramm: Palaces and castles in Lower Franconia , Nuremberg 2002
  • Heinz Rötter: Castles in Lower Franconia , Coburg 1991

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c H. Steidle: Castle and Gutshof Rottenbauer , p. 2.