Lisberg Castle

Lisberg Castle
	Lisberg Castle
Creation time :	700 to 800
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location, local location
Conservation status:	Receive
Standing position :	Nobles
Place:	Lisberg
Geographical location	49 ° 53 '1 " N , 10 ° 43' 42" E Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '1 " N , 10 ° 43' 42" E
Height:	328 m above sea level NN

The castle Lisberg is an early medieval Spur castle on a mountain ridge at 328 m above sea level. NN in the Bavarian municipality of Lisberg , Bamberg district . The castle is one of the oldest preserved castles in Germany and is the only undestroyed castle in the Steigerwald .

history

The castle was built in the 8th century and mentioned for the first time with the name "Elitzberg" in a deed of donation in 820 when the lord of the castle Hiltuvin gave land to the Fulda monastery. The noble family of the lords of Lisberg first appeared in documents in 1200. The castle probably served as a Gaugrafenburg to protect the Volkfeldgau .

The Ansbach margrave Friedrich VI. In 1398 the main castle was given a fiefdom , and the Würzburg monastery received the village and the outer bailey . In 1500 the castle Lisberg was Ganerbenburg . Fabian von Lisberg, the last of the noble family, died. The owners of the castle include the lords of Lauffenholz, the lords of Thünfeld, the lords of Aschhausen , the lords of Giech and the lords of Milz. The barons of Münster sat at the castle until 1707, the princes of Castell-Castell from 1855 , and the (former) graphic artist Hans Fischer until the end of 2015. Since then, the castle has been privately owned by the entrepreneur Johann Sebök.

In the Peasants 'War in 1525 only the outer bailey was damaged and in the Margrave Wars and in the Thirty Years' War the castle was not destroyed by the clever policy of the Lisbergers.

Building history and facility

The large castle complex is considered a Romanesque complex; its oldest buildings, which also include the keep and parts of the gatehouse , date back to the 12th century. The main castle is separated from the outer castle (with a round tower and gate with the coat of arms of those of Giech "1521") by a moat . The ditch of the outer bailey is still preserved. The core and the northern part of the outer bailey are surrounded by a kennel .

The mighty round keep with a castle dungeon in its basement is dated to the second half of the 13th century. The castle chapel of St. Nicholas and Anna was mentioned in 1421. The palace was rebuilt around 1600 in the Renaissance style and the essentially Gothic residential building with castle kitchen and knight's hall in 1776 by Otto Philipp von Münster in the Renaissance style. The castle also has a Gothic women's shelter. In the 18th century the keep was partially demolished and given a mansard roof.

The castle is privately owned and can be viewed by appointment or booked for events. It was sold to the Bamberg entrepreneur and auctioneer Johann Sebök in 2015. The former owner Hans Fischer, who had also set up a Franconian museum in the castle, had the right to live for life and died in February 2016.

Southwestern view of the castle
Residential building with keep
Outer bailey with round tower
Economy building in Vorburg
Courtyard
Outer gatehouse

literature

Konrad M. Müller: Medieval Franconia - A travel guide . Stütz Verlag, Würzburg 1980, ISBN 3-8003-0141-5 , pp. 105-106.
Denis Andre Chevalley, Hans Wolfram, Lübbecke, Michael Nitz: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV. Upper Franconia, Munich 1985.
Ruth Bach-Damaskinos, Peter Borowitz: Palaces and castles in Upper Franconia - a complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Upper Franconian independent cities and districts . Verlag A. Hofmann, Nuremberg 1996, ISBN 3-87191-212-3 , pp. 24-25.
Ursula Pfistermeister : Well-defended Franconia - Volume 3: Castles, fortified churches, city walls around Bamberg, Bayreuth and Coburg . Hans Carl Verlag, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-418-00387-7 , pp. 88-90.

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Individual evidence

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