Knetzgau Castle

Knetzgau Castle
Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, location
Conservation status:	Burgstall, built over
Geographical location	49 ° 59 '50.1 "  N , 10 ° 33' 11.5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '50.1 "  N , 10 ° 33' 11.5"  E

The castle Knetzgau is an Outbound medieval moated castle in Knetzgau (Schloßweg 12) in the Bavarian district Haßberge .

The castle, whose time of construction is not mentioned and whose owners are named the Lords of Schweinshaupten, was sacked in 1525 in the course of the peasant war, in which the Knetzgau farmers did not take part, and later rebuilt. The moated castle was sold to the Prince Diocese of Bamberg . The "Princely Oberschultheißenhof" was established here. In the middle of the 18th century, the Oberschultheißenhof was relocated from the castle, which had already largely fallen into disrepair, to the Bauer estate next to the church.

On the core of the former moated castle and the former tithe barn , a stately saddle roof building , was built in the 17th-18th centuries. Century a two-story hipped roof building with a protruding upper floor.

literature

• Heinrich Habel and Helga Himen (arr.): Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments: Volume VI . Lower Franconia. Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (ed.). Munich 1985

Web links

• Entry on Schlosshof Knetzgau in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chrionik Knetzgau at knetzgau.de