Thuisbrunn Castle

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Thuisbrunn Castle
Thuisbrunn Castle - view of the ruin with the keep from the west (August 2014)

Thuisbrunn Castle - view of the ruin with the keep from the west (August 2014)

Creation time : Before 1348
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Reichsministeriale
Construction: Ashlar masonry
Place: Graefenberg - Thuisbrunn
Geographical location 49 ° 41 ′ 18.4 "  N , 11 ° 14 ′ 51"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 41 ′ 18.4 "  N , 11 ° 14 ′ 51"  E
Height: 470  m above sea level NN
Thuisbrunn Castle (Bavaria)
Thuisbrunn Castle

The castle Thuisbrunn is centrally located in the district Thuisbrunn the town of Gräfenberg in Upper Franconia . After being destroyed and rebuilt several times, the castle is privately owned.

history

The Spornburg was first mentioned in 1348 and named as the lord of the castle, Knight Hiltpolt von Mayenthal zu Thuisbrunn. In the South German city war it was destroyed by Nuremberg troops in 1388 and then given to the Nuremberg burgrave as a fief. In 1420 the castle was destroyed again during the Bavarian War by the troops of Duke Ludwig von Ingolstadt. When the village of Thuisbrunn was destroyed in July 1449 by Nuremberg troops and in the Prince's War in 1460, the castle was spared. In 1553, during the Second Margrave War , the castle was destroyed again by Nuremberg troops. Until 1558 only the office building and the keep were rebuilt. During the Thirty Years' War and thereafter, Thuisbrunn and the castle were plundered seven times by imperial, Swedish and Bavarian troops. In 1667 the bailiwick building was probably built in place of the old office building; apart from this house and the keep, the castle remained in ruins. The cartographer Johann Christoph Stierlein completed a very precise map of the castle area for the first time in 1816 with the existing inventory. After the property was taken over by the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806, the bailiwick building served as a forester's house. Towards the end of the Second World War , the castle was shelled by American troops. In 1961 it went into private ownership.

  • Thuisbrunn Castle from a bird's eye view (2018)

  • Thuisbrunn with the castle, steel engraving from 1858

  • View of the castle ruins from the north. The remains of a castle building are visible on the rock (April 2009)

literature

  • Walter Heinz: Former noble residences in the Trubach valley . Verlag Palm and Enke, Erlangen and Jena 1996, ISBN 3-7896-0554-9 , pp. 99-112.
  • Björn-Uwe Abels , Joachim Zeune , a. A .: Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany. Volume 20: Franconian Switzerland . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0586-8 , p. 224.
  • Hellmut Kunstmann : The castles of south-western Franconian Switzerland . Commission publisher Degener & Co., Neustadt / Aisch 1990, pp. 229-235.
  • Gustav Voit, Walter Rüfer: A castle tour through Franconian Switzerland . Verlag Palm and Enke, Erlangen 1991, ISBN 3-7896-0064-4 , pp. 184-187.
  • Toni Eckert, Susanne Fischer, Renate Freitag, Rainer Hofmann, Walter Thousand Pounds: The Castles of Franconian Switzerland: A cultural guide . Gürtler Druck, Forchheim o. J., ISBN 3-9803276-5-5 , pp. 148-151.

Web links

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