Gaillreuth Castle
| Gaillreuth Castle | ||
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 Residential tower with remains of the gate system |
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| Creation time : | first mentioned 1122 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Residential tower, remains of the wall | |
| Standing position : | Clericals, nobility | |
| Place: | Ebermannstadt - Burggaillreuth | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 46 '47.6 " N , 11 ° 17' 18.6" E | |
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The castle Gaillreuth is located high above the Wiesent on the western upper edge of the valley in the village of Burggaillreuth . The place belongs to the town of Ebermannstadt in the Forchheim district in Bavaria . Only the southern part of the hill fort is left . In addition to parts of the outer bailey, there is also a residential tower from the period after 1632.
history
The castle is one of the six castles that Bamberg Bishop Otto I von Mistelbach (1102–1139) acquired in 1122 for the Bamberg Monastery. Nothing is known about the previous owners or builders of the castle.
The next documentary mention of the castle comes from an addendum to the legal book of Bamberg Bishop Friedrich von Hohenlohe (1342-1352). Then the Bamberg Bishop Leopold III paid . von Bebenburg (1353–1363) 100 pounds Heller to Konrad von Egloffstein for the maintenance of the castle. Between 1353 and 1359, the castle seems to have come into the possession of the Lords of Egloffstein as an episcopal fief, although part of the castle passed into their ownership over time.
In 1382 the castle was a robber baron's nest: Fritz von Streitberg the boy had recruited 33 'gentlemen' with spears and 60 armed infantry from the Rhön and the grave field in order to harm his uncle Georg Haller of Nuremberg. On Monday morning, October 27, 1382, they attacked three villages near Graefenberg and stole cattle, horses and what they found and took 14 of his rear passengers to the fortress "Gaylenrewt" in captivity. The castle has nothing to do with the robber knight Eppelein von Gailingen, who was executed in 1381 .
In 1522, Conrad XI. von Egloffstein gave the free-owned part of the castle to Bamberg Bishop Georg III. von Limpurg (1505–1522) on fief. In 1525 the castle was burned down during the Peasants' War , but was rebuilt by Konz von Egloffstein. During the Thirty Years War it was destroyed by Croatian troops on July 8, 1632. The time of the reconstruction is not known. However, it can be assumed that only the southern part was rebuilt. In 1638 the Lords of Egloffstein dissolved the castle from the episcopal feudal association by swapping it. The Burggaillereuther line of the Lords of Egloffstein died in 1682 with Hans Philipp II of Egloffstein.
In 1684 the Lords of Egloffstein sold their free share in the castle to Baron Karl Friedrich Voit von Rieneck . In 1810 Anton Joseph Baron Horneck von Weinheim acquired the castle. In 1847 it was declared dilapidated. In 1848 the rear bower was demolished. The remaining buildings were renovated around this time by August Horneck von Weinheim. The castle is privately owned, used for events and houses a beer garden.
literature
- Hellmut Kunstmann : The castles of south-western Franconian Switzerland 2nd edition, Commission publishing house Degener & Co, Neustadt an der Aisch 1990, pp. 16–33.
- Gustav Voit, Walter Rüfer: A castle trip through Franconian Switzerland - In the footsteps of the draftsman AF Thomas Ostertag , 2nd edition, Verlag Palm & Enke, Erlangen 1991, ISBN 3-7896-0064-4 , pp. 55–58.
- Toni Eckert, Susanne Fischer, Renate Freitag, Rainer Hofmann, Walter Thousand Pounds: The Castles of Franconian Switzerland - A cultural guide . Gürtler Druck, Forchheim o. J., ISBN 3-9803276-5-5 , pp. 35-39.
Web links
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
- More photos and history of Burg Gaillreuth near Foracheim
- History on burgenwelt.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werner Schultheiß: The eight, prohibition and feuding books of Nuremberg from 1285-1400 , Nuremberg 1960, pp. 137-141.
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