Vestenberg Castle

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Vestenberg Castle
Creation time : 12th Century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Ruin, remains of the wall
Construction: Quarry stone
Place: Petersaurach - Vestenberg
Geographical location 49 ° 19 ′ 38.8 "  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 17.5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 38.8 "  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 17.5"  E
Vestenberg Castle (Bavaria)
Vestenberg Castle

The castle Vestenberg is the ruins of a medieval hilltop castle on a mountain slope instead of the local Church of St. Lawrence on the southwestern outskirts above Vestenberg , a modern district of the municipality Petersaurach in Ansbach in Bavaria .

history

The castle, which was built in the 12th century, presumably a section castle, was the seat of the von Vestenberg family . In 1235 the castle went to the Lords of Schalkhausen, known under the name of Dornberg. After the last male Dornberger died on June 9, 1288, the castle passed to his third daughter, who had married into the noble family of the von Heidecks . The castle remained in the possession of the Heidecks until 1435. On November 6, 1435, Vestenberg was sold with the castle and goods to Martin von Eyb , whose family called themselves von Eyb zu Vestenberg . In 1466 knight Conrad von Eyb zu Vestenberg had a chapel built. In 1525 the castle was destroyed in the course of the peasant war and rebuilt in 1566. In 1675 the castle with the property and rights of the Lords of Eyb zu Vestenberg was valued at 4420 guilders . In 1724 the Lords of Eyb sold the castle with all of their property and rights, as well as their subjects and feudal people to the Margraves of Ansbach . In 1759 the castle was demolished.

Remnants of quarry stone walls and partially inaccessible cellars have been preserved from the former castle . The castle site is partly built over by the church. Below the church in the renovated castle garden there is an open-air stage, where the Vestenberg Culture Days take place every year in late summer.

literature

  • Ruth Bach-Damaskinos, Jürgen Schabel, Sabine Kothes: Palaces and castles in Middle Franconia. A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Central Franconian independent cities and districts . Verlag A. Hoffmann, Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 3-87191-186-0
  • Günter P. Fehring: City and district of Ansbach . In: Bavarian art monuments . tape 2 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 145 .
  • Paul Oesterreicher: The Vestenberg Castle . Bayreuth 1831.

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