Wahrberg Castle

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Wahrberg Castle
Wahrberg Castle

Wahrberg Castle

Alternative name (s): Wahrberg Castle
Creation time : 800 to 900
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Receive
Standing position : Nobles, counts, clericals, commoners
Place: Aurach -Wahrberg
Geographical location 49 ° 14 '19.1 "  N , 10 ° 24' 30.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 14 '19.1 "  N , 10 ° 24' 30.3"  E
Height: 490  m above sea level NHN
Wahrberg Castle (Bavaria)
Wahrberg Castle

The Castle Wahrberg , also called Castle Wahrberg , is an early medieval spur castle at 490  m above sea level. NHN high spur of an elongated mountain tongue and at the same time part of the municipality Aurach in the district of Ansbach in Middle Franconia with 13 inhabitants.

history

In the 9th century , a square jump was built on a mountain tongue in a spur location, where there was an early installation from Celtic times with a watchtower, and mentioned in 888. The spur castle probably served to secure an army road coming from the south to the Main and a salt road coming from the Kocher area near Schwäbisch Hall to the Middle Franconian area.

In the 12th and 13th centuries, the castle was expanded by the Lords of Wahrberg, who were closely related to the Staufers ; it was their ancestral seat from 1119 to 1275 and then until 1805 in the possession of the Hochstift Eichstätt and seat of a maintenance and senior office .

After parts of the castle burned down at the end of the 19th century, it was renovated in the classicist style in 1905 and has been owned by the Bornebusch family ever since.

The Counts of Oettingen are also named as former owners . The coat of arms from 1613 above the entrance points to Prince-Bishop Johann Christoph von Westerstetten and that from 1745 above the gate tower to Prince-Bishop Johann Anton von Freiberg .

The castle is now used as a seminar house. A riding stable is located in the outbuildings.

Population development

year 001818 001840 001861 001871 001885 001900 001925 001950 001961 001970 001987
Residents 11 21st 16 13 24 16 21st 37 29 9 13
Houses 2 6th 4th 4th 2 3 4th 5
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religion

The place was originally purely Catholic. The Catholics are to this day parish to St. Peter and Paul , the Protestants to St. Wenceslas (Weißenkirchberg) .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 324 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Only inhabited houses are given. In 1818 these were referred to as "fireplaces", in 1840 as "houses", and from 1871 to 1987 as "residential buildings".
  3. ↑ Alphabetical index of all the localities contained in the Rezatkkreis according to its constitution by the newest organization: with indication of a. the tax districts, b. Judicial Districts, c. Rent offices in which they are located, then several other statistical notes . Ansbach 1818, p. 98 ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Eduard Vetter (Ed.): Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria . Self-published, Ansbach 1846, p. 156 ( digitized version ).
  5. ^ Joseph Heyberger, Chr. Schmitt, v. Wachter: Topographical-statistical manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical local dictionary . In: K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Bavaria. Regional and folklore of the Kingdom of Bavaria . tape 5 . Literary and artistic establishment of the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, Munich 1867, Sp. 1023 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10374496-4 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Kgl. Statistical Bureau (ed.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to districts, administrative districts, court districts and municipalities, including parish, school and post office affiliation ... with an alphabetical general register containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875 . Adolf Ackermann, Munich 1877, 2nd section (population figures from 1871, cattle figures from 1873), Sp. 1187 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00052489-4 ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to government districts, administrative districts, ... then with an alphabetical register of locations, including the property and the responsible administrative district for each location. LIV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1888, Section III, Sp. 1119 ( digitized version ).
  8. ↑ K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Directory of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria, with alphabetical register of places . LXV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1904, Section II, Sp. 1187 ( digitized version ).
  9. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria according to the census of June 16, 1925 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928 . Issue 109 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1928, Section II, Sp. 1224 ( digitized version ).
  10. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria - edited on the basis of the census of September 13, 1950 . Issue 169 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1952, DNB  453660975 , Section II, Sp. 1053 ( digitized version ).
  11. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official city directory for Bavaria, territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census . Issue 260 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1964, DNB  453660959 , Section II, Sp. 773 ( digitized version ).
  12. ^ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria . Issue 335 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1973, DNB  740801384 , p. 167 ( digitized version ).