Pfalzpaint Castle

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Pfalzpaint Castle
The church tower of Pfalzpaint with remains of the former manor house

The church tower of Pfalzpaint with remains of the former manor house

Creation time : 13th Century
Castle type : Niederungsburg, location
Conservation status: Built-in remains
Standing position : Nobles, Ministerials
Construction: Cuboid
Place: Walting -Pfalzpaint
Geographical location 48 ° 55 '59.1 "  N , 11 ° 19' 29.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 55 '59.1 "  N , 11 ° 19' 29.6"  E
Height: 388  m above sea level NHN
Pfalzpaint Castle (Bavaria)
Pfalzpaint Castle

The castle Pfalzpaint is the ruin of a castle just south of the church in the village of Pfalzpaint, Kirchweg 3, the town of Eichstatt in the district of Eichstätt in Bavaria .

history

The castle, which formed a defensive unit with the village church, was built as the ancestral seat in the 13th century by the lords of Pfalzpaint, mentioned since 1194, who were the ministerials of the Counts of Hirschberg . In 1452 Heinrich von Pfalzpaint sold the castle to his brother-in-law Michael Muggenthaler and entered the Teutonic Order , where in 1460 he wrote the "Wundarznei", the oldest surgical textbook in German. In 1538 the castle came to the Nuremberg field captain Haug von Parsberg , who expanded it into a castle in 1539 and expanded it into the cemetery. When his widow died in 1578, the castle went to Georg Wurmrauscher as a fief . In 1659 Maria Sponica Wurmrauscher sold the castle to the Eichstätt Monastery , and in 1690 a forestry was established in the former castle. In 1707 the church of St. Andreas was rebuilt by Jakob Engel and still shows the connection with the castle. The castle got its current appearance when the keep was reduced in 1779 , the remaining fortifications were removed and the remains of the castle were built into a new residential building. In 1807 the forestry was dissolved and the former castle buildings were sold.

description

The stump of the Romanesque , square, three-storey keep is the only visible remnant of the castle ruins. It is built with the current residential building, in which there are still remains of the castle complex with the former palace . The tower can be reached at the height of its original high entrance via the third floor of the residential building, with a slate roof .

The former fortified village church, which formed a defensive unit with the castle, was completely lost when the church was rebuilt in 1707. The church furnishings , mainly in the Baroque style , date from the 16th to 18th centuries.

literature

  • Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , p. 95-96 .
  • Karl Zecherle (editor): Castles and palaces . Eichstätt district in the Altmühltal nature park. Ed .: District of Eichstätt. 2nd unchanged edition. Hercynia-Verlag, Kipfenberg 1987, DNB  944206697 , p. 30-31 .

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