Kohlstein Castle

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Kohlstein Castle
Main building of Kohlstein Castle with stair tower (2003)

Main building of Kohlstein Castle with stair tower (2003)

Creation time : around 1485
Castle type : Höhenburg, location
Conservation status: Received or received substantial parts
Place: Gößweinstein - Kohlstein
Geographical location 49 ° 47 '17.9 "  N , 11 ° 20' 54.2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '17.9 "  N , 11 ° 20' 54.2"  E
Height: 440  m above sea level NN
Kohlstein Castle (Bavaria)
Kohlstein Castle

The castle Kohlenstein is on a rocky hillside in the village Kohlenstein northwest of Tüchersfeld and is the youngest castle establishment of the Franconian Switzerland . It is also one of the smallest and most romantic castles. Today the castle is privately owned and cannot be visited.

history

The hilltop castle at 440  m above sea level. NN is likely to have been built around 1486 by Konz von Hirschaid . Originally it was probably the free property of the von Hirschaid family. Later the feudal sovereignty went to the diocese of Bamberg .

In 1525 the castle was destroyed in the Peasants' War. The reconstruction took place immediately. In 1607/1608 the von Hirschaid family had to sell the rule for lack of money. On May 23, 1608 Wolf Philipp Groß von Trockau zu Tüchersfeld was enfeoffed with castle and rule. The castle seems to have been destroyed in the Thirty Years War , because a simple new building was built in 1636. A comprehensive renovation took place between 1707 and 1714.

The construction of a garden house probably also fell during this time. This was converted into a castle or local chapel in 1743.

The Groß von Trockau, who called themselves Kohlstein and Tüchersfeld since 1658 , had to sell the castle to Otto Philipp von Gutenberg in 1713. After his death, his niece Maria Anna Groß von Trockau inherited the castle and rule.

Most of the existing buildings, a residential building with an attached tower, date from the 18th century. The tower was renewed in 1890.

In 1961 the Groß von Trockau family sold the castle, but not the associated castle and local chapel. The castle has had several owners in the meantime.

Today the castle is a monument D-4-74-129-42 "Castle, in the core 1486, rebuilt after destruction in the Peasants' War, three-storey main building, 1636 with the core of the 15th / 16th. Century, east side with irregular three-sided end, domed round stair tower , renewed in 1890; Covered corridor to two-story outbuilding, 18th / 19th centuries Century "and as a ground monument D-4-6234-0175" Underground components of the late medieval and early modern castle of Kohlstein "recorded by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

literature

  • Kai Kellermann: Stately gardens in Franconian Switzerland - a search for traces . Verlag Palm & Enke, Erlangen / Jena 2008, ISBN 978-3-7896-0683-0 , pp. 114–117.
  • Gustav Voit, Walter Rüfer: A castle tour through Franconian Switzerland. Verlag Palm and Enke, Erlangen 1991, ISBN 3-7896-0064-4 , pp. 101-103.
  • Toni Eckert, Susanne Fischer, Renate Freitag, Rainer Hofmann, Walter Thousand Pounds: The castles of Franconian Switzerland, a cultural guide. Gürtler Druck, Forchheim 1997, ISBN 3-9803276-5-5 , pp. 82-85.
  • Hellmut Kunstmann : The castles of eastern Franconian Switzerland . Commission publisher Ferdinand Schöningh, Würzburg 1965, DNB 452649552 , pp. 294-303.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Location of the castle in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Gößweinstein (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 143 kB)