Old Pleinfeld Bailiwick Castle

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Pleinfeld Castle
The castle seen from the castle garden
Coat of arms above the portal

The old bailiff's castle is in Pleinfeld in the Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . It is also known as the Klostervogtei, Altes Schloss, Hohes Haus or Kloster. The building with the address Kirchenplatz 1 and 3 is registered under monument number D-5-77-161-15 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. The castle stands on an elevation in the center of Pleinfeld on the church square south of the Nikolauskirche at a height of 382 meters above sea ​​level . The former monastery garden, known as the palace garden, is directly adjacent.

Little is known about the origin of the three-storey two-wing building, which is essentially medieval. It was first mentioned in 1136 as the property of the Lords of Pleinfeld , and in 1435 the building was acquired by the Eichstätt diocese and used as an administrative building. In the 17th / 18th It was redesigned in the 19th century. Later, the castle served as a girls' school , doctor's house, for apartments for railway engineers during the construction of the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn in the 19th century, as a prayer room for Protestants in front of the construction of the Petruskirche and as the seat of the regional court . From 1866 to 1880 there was a preparatory school in the building . After the Second World War, displaced and bombed townspeople lived in the building.

The building currently houses the community library, the Haus des Gastes and the Pleinfeld Museum of Local History and Brewery . The multi-generational house Pleinfelds has also been housed there since 2006.

The Wolfram-von-Eschenbach-Brunnen (it is assumed that Wolfram von Eschenbach was born in Pleinfeld ) is located in front of the old bailiwick castle . The pigeon fountain with medieval elements was built during the renovation of the bailiff's palace. He should honor the pigeon fanciers club and other clubs.

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 , p. 491 .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Pleinfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former Eichstättisches Vogteischloss , Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF, accessed April 27, 2018)
  2. ↑ a b Topographic Maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )
  3. ↑ Castle garden at the community center . Market Pleinfeld. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
  4. ^ Entry on Pleinfeld in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved December 4, 2018.
  5. ↑ After World War II . Primary school Pleinfeld. Retrieved October 7, 2019.
  6. ↑ Mehrgenerationenhaus Pleinfeld ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pleinfeld.eu
  7. ↑ Gottfried Mertens: Market Pleinfeld. A look into the past. Eichstätt 1984. p. 37.

Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 22.2 ″  N , 10 ° 59 ′ 12 ″  E