Gößweinstein Castle

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Gößweinstein Castle
Gößweinstein Castle in winter

Gößweinstein Castle in winter

Alternative name (s): Gößweinstein Castle
Creation time : before 1076
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: Received or received substantial parts
Place: Gößweinstein
Geographical location 49 ° 46 ′ 13.4 "  N , 11 ° 20 ′ 4"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 13.4 "  N , 11 ° 20 ′ 4"  E

Gößweinstein Castle , also called Gößweinstein Castle , is a medieval hilltop castle in Gößweinstein in the Forchheim district in Bavaria . The complex, located high above the market and the Wiesent , may have served as a model for Richard Wagner for the Grail Castle in his Parsifal . The castle is listed as a Bavarian monument with D-4-74-129-10 .

Gößweinstein Castle, 1928

History of the castle

Gößweinstein Castle from Kreuzberg (October 2014)
Goessweinstein Castle-1.jpg

The castle was probably named after its builder, Count Gozwin . He was killed in 1065 after invading the territory of the Bishop of Würzburg. A first documented mention of the castle "Goswinesteyn" is known from the year 1076. At that time, Emperor Heinrich IV had Bishop Burchard II von Halberstadt , who was involved in the Saxon War , imprisoned there, which suggests that there were already strong fortifications.

Since Bishop Otto von Bamberg it has been provable as a Bamberg property . From 1348 to 1780 the castle was the seat of a bailiwick office of the bishops of Bamberg .

In 1525 there was destruction during the Peasants' War and subsequent reconstruction. During the Second Margrave War in 1553, the castle was destroyed again and then rebuilt.

The castle came into Bavarian state ownership through the secularization of the Bamberg Monastery in 1803 . The Bavarian state sold the castle in 1875 to Pauline Rabeneck , widow of the estate of Aspach near Uffenheim. In 1890 Baron Edgar von Sohlern acquired the castle and redesigned it in the neo-Gothic style. Late Gothic figures have been preserved in the castle chapel .

literature

  • Ursula Pfistermeister : Wehrhaftes Franken - Volume 3: Castles, fortified churches, city walls around Bamberg, Bayreuth and Coburg , Fachverlag Hans Carl GmbH, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-418-00387-7 , pp. 56-58.
  • Günter Dippold: On the history of the castle and place Gößweinstein . In: Günter Dippold (Ed.): Gößweinstein. Sacral center of Franconian Switzerland . Staffelstein 1998, ISBN 3-9804630-2-8 , pp. 12-28.
  • Gustav Voit, Brigitte Kaulich, Walter Rüfer: From the countryside in the mountains to Franconian Switzerland - a landscape is discovered . (Series of publications by the Franconian Switzerland Association, Volume 8) Verlag Palm and Enke, Erlangen 1992, ISBN 3-7896-0511-5 , pp. 103-108.
  • Björn-Uwe Abels , Joachim Zeune , among others: Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Volume 20: Franconian Switzerland . Konrad Theiss Verlag GmbH and Co., Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0586-8 , pp. 162-164.
  • Hellmut Kunstmann : The castles of eastern Franconian Switzerland . Commission publisher Ferdinand Schöningh, Würzburg 1965, pp. 26–63.

Web links

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