Herrieden Castle

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Herrieden Castle
The former Herrieden Castle

The former Herrieden Castle

Alternative name (s): Herrieden Castle
Creation time : around 1122
Castle type : Location
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Nobles, counts
Place: Herrieden
Geographical location 49 ° 14 '1.4 "  N , 10 ° 29' 59.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 14 '1.4 "  N , 10 ° 29' 59.7"  E
Herrieden Castle (Bavaria)
Herrieden Castle

The castle Herrieden , including Castle Herrieden called, is the ruin of a castle town in the city of Herrieden in Ansbach in Bavaria .

history

The complex is located on the northeastern edge of the old town of Herrieder and, with its extensive fortifications, is part of the city wall and the historic city center.

The castle, which later became the city palace, was the ancestral seat of the Lords of Herrieden and was first mentioned in a document in 1122. In 1314 Ludwig IV. Was elected the Bavarian German King and at the same time Frederick the Beautiful was elected. In this conflict Herrieden stood on the side of Frederick the Beautiful and opposed King Ludwig. In the course of these battles the permanent place Herrieden was besieged by Ludwig, where he received support from the "ballistics experts" from Nuremberg . The defenders under the power of Hohenlohe were able to free themselves from the burning city with a wild counter-attack, but the place was stormed after a long siege, the walls and towers were razed. On March 23 and 24, 1316 King Ludwig stayed in the camp in front of Herrieden. The place was plundered, Ludwig had the bones of Saint Deocar raised, donated some of them to the Nuremberg support troops and took some of them with him to his Munich residence, where they fell victim to the bombs of World War II. In Nuremberg Deocar became the third city ​​saint next to St. Sebald and St. Lorenz .

St. Laurentius, patron of the Lorenz Church , did not offer the same identification, especially since neither his body nor any part of the body are available in Nuremberg. This explains the growing veneration of Saint Deocarus, confessor of Charlemagne in the 15th century, whose relics have been kept in the Lorenz Church since 1316.

In 1358, Charles IV issued a letter of protection for Herrieden in Rothenburg and gave the town the St. Vitus reliquary. Bishop Friedrich IV of Eichstätt fortified Herrieden again in 1412. After 1490 the castle and the bridge were destroyed by fire, rebuilt from 1508 to 1510 by Bishop Gabriel von Eyb and again burned down by the Swedes in 1633. There were further construction measures in 1686 and 1717, before it had been converted into the Prince-Bishop's Brewery in 1685, which has been a private brewery since 1806. The castle was renovated between 1811 and 1814, the main building burned down in 1877/78 and was rebuilt. In 1907, the crashed keep one, the main building was renovated 1,952th The Counts of Öttingen and the diocese of Eichstätt are named as other owners, and the city of Herrieden has been the owner since 2009.

The former prince-bishop's fortress is included in the city wall and it is secured by its own semicircular ditch. Extensive retaining walls are still there, as is the partially buried arch bridge as access to the gatehouse. The main building on the outer wall was changed several times, especially after the fire of 1877. On the ground floor there is a two-aisled, three-bay groin vault on pillars, in which there is a high, rectangular house tub (barley softener) from the furnishings of the former prince-bishop's brewery. On the main building there are corner pilaster strips and a cranked all-round base with cap stone. A coat of arms relief bears the inscription: “IO (hannes). ANTON (ius). D (ei). G (ratia). E (piscopus). E (istettensis). S (ancti). R (omani). I (mperi). P (rinceps). 1717 (Bishop Johann Anton Knebel von Katzenellenbogen 1704-25) ”. On the main front of the house and that of the adjoining brewery wing there are emblem reliefs: 1. "GABRIEL DEI GRACIA E (pisco) PVS EYSTET (e) N (sis) ME FIERI FECIT ANNO 1.50.8" (Bishop Gabriel von Eyb 1496–1535) , 2. "IOHANNES EUCHARIUS I (mus) DEI GRATIA SAC (ri): ROM (ani): IMPERII. PRINCEPS. EPISCOPUS. EUSTETTENSIS 1686 “(Bishop Johannes Eucharius Schenk von Castell 1685–97).

The preserved gate tower has a hipped mansard roof with a basket arched passage and small curved rectangular windows. Above the entrance to the city there is a relief of the coat of arms of the cathedral chapter Eichstätt, diocese and bishop Gabriel von Eyb and is marked "MDX". Inside the gate tower on the former outside of the castle wall there is a sandstone relief with the holy abbot (Deocar?), A kneeling bishop, the coat of arms of the Eichstätt diocese, the cathedral chapter and the bishop Friedrich IV., Count of Öttingen (1383–1415) . Legend: "+ anno. d (omi) ni. mcccc xii. rev (er) endiss / imos. in). xpo (= Christ). pr (= pater). et. d (omi) n (u) s. d (omi) n (u) s. fridrlicus ep (iscopu) s. eyestet (e) n (sis). comes. de o / tingen. hec. edificare. fecit "

literature

Web links

Commons : Burg Herrieden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Dallhammer: Herrieden, City Altmuhl. Majer, Leutershausen 1982, ISBN 3-922175-08-2 , pp. 135-136.
  2. ↑ Entry on Herrieden Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  3. ↑ herrieden.de