Bertholdsdorf Castle

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Bertholdsdorf Castle
St. George Church

St. George Church

Creation time : Mentioned in 1294
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Clericals, nobility
Place: Windsbach - Bertholdsdorf
Geographical location 49 ° 17 '21.8 "  N , 10 ° 52' 29.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '21.8 "  N , 10 ° 52' 29.7"  E
Height: 386  m above sea level NHN
Bertholdsdorf Castle (Bavaria)
Bertholdsdorf Castle

The castle Bertholdsdorf is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle on 386  m above sea level. NHN instead of the local church Sankt Georg in Bertholdsdorf , a current part of the municipality Windsbach in the district of Ansbach in Bavaria .

history

The spur castle was mentioned in 1294. Around 1296 part of Bertholdsdorf and the castle came to the Hochstift Eichstätt and part went to the burgrave of Nuremberg . The Barons von Seckendorff were the last owners of Bertholdsdorf and Burg until the Margraves of Ansbach acquired it in 1597 and made it subordinate to the Oberamt Windsbach , to which it was subordinate for 200 years. The castle was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War (1618–48).

On the grounds of the former castle, today's probably in the 15th century as is fortified church -based Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. George with terraced superimposed scale retaining walls. Only the remains of the wall and the ditch are preserved from the former castle . The rectory was built in 1734 by Johann David Steingruber from the material of the former castle, as was the churchyard wall.

literature

  • Ruth Bach-Damaskinos, Jürgen Schabel, Sabine Kothes: Palaces and castles in Middle Franconia. A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Central Franconian independent cities and districts . Verlag A. Hoffmann, Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 3-87191-186-0 , p. 188.
  • Karl Dunz : Windsbach - home and cultural history of the city with all districts . Neuendettelsau 1985, p. 236-238 .
  • Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 82 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ K. Dunz, p. 238.