Waischenfeld castle ruins

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Waischenfeld castle ruins
Defense tower "Steinerner Beutel" and Waischenfeld Castle

Defense tower "Steinerner Beutel" and Waischenfeld Castle

Creation time : First mentioned in 1122
Castle type : Höhenburg, rock castle
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Free nobles
Place: Waischenfeld
Geographical location 49 ° 50 '42.2 "  N , 11 ° 20' 33.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 50 '42.2 "  N , 11 ° 20' 33.6"  E
Waischenfeld castle ruins (Bavaria)
Waischenfeld castle ruins

The Waischenfeld castle ruin is the ruin of a rock castle on a rock plateau on the western outskirts of Waischenfeld in Upper Franconia .

history

Waischenfeld Castle, pencil drawing (around 1839) by Domenico Quaglio
Waischenfeld Castle, after a painting (1802) by Sebastian Förtsch

The first references to a castle in Waischenfeld come from the year 1079, when a member of an important noble family in the area of ​​the middle Wiesent was mentioned in a document with "Wirint von Waischenfeld " . The Waischenfelder were related to the dynasty family of the Lords of Aufseß .

The hill fort was first mentioned in 1122 as "Urbs". After the death of Ulrich von Waischenfeld, the last of the von Waischenfeld family, after 1216 the castle and rule of Waischenfeld passed to Eberhard III. von Greifenstein , who built a new castle south of Waischenfeld, the Schlüsselberg Castle . After the death of Konrad II von Schlüsselberg in 1348, the castle and town of Waischenfeld came into the possession of the Bamberg diocese .

In 1430 the castle was badly damaged during the Hussite Wars , then between 1438 and 1562 the diocese repeatedly pledged it to aristocrats. The castle was further destroyed between 1552 and 1553 during the Second Margrave War , in which Margrave Albrecht Alcibiades of Brandenburg-Kulmbach primarily fought the (Catholic) Hochstifte and tried to gain supremacy in Franconia . Here the castle was taken three times by the margrave's troops; after being looted, it was burned down on June 7, 1553.

The old castle served as a grain floor from around 1600 and slowly fell into disrepair. The ruin was finally demolished in 1876/77 and 1889.

description

The Steinerner Beutel tower is the landmark of the town of Waischenfeld. The approximately 13 meter high Romanesque round tower stands on a limestone cliff and belonged to the northernmost part of the castle, the Rüssenbacher Burggut. The tower originally served as a keep or a keep-like watch tower with a high entrance to the neighboring castle.

literature

  • Rüdiger Bauriedel, Ruprecht Konrad-Röder: Medieval fortifications and low-nobility mansions in the Bayreuth district . Ellwanger Druck und Verlag, Bayreuth 2007, ISBN 978-3-925361-63-0 , p. 151.
  • Hans-Michael Körner , Alois Schmid (ed.), Martin Ott: Handbook of historical sites . Volume 7: Bavaria II. Volume 2: Franconia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 325). Kröner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-520-32501-2 , pp. 564-565.
  • Ursula Pfistermeister : Well-defended Franconia - Volume 3: Castles, fortified churches, city walls around Bamberg, Bayreuth and Coburg . Fachverlag Hans Carl GmbH, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-418-00387-7 , p. 126.
  • 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. 50-51.
  • Gustav Voit, Brigitte Kaulich, Walter Rüfer: From the countryside in the mountains to Franconian Switzerland - a landscape is discovered . (Series of publications by the Fränkische-Schweiz-Verein, Volume 8) Verlag Palm and Enke, Erlangen 1992, ISBN 3-7896-0511-5 , pp. 162–167.
  • Gustav Voit, Walter Rüfer: A castle tour through Franconian Switzerland . Verlag Palm & Enke, Erlangen 1991, ISBN 3-7896-0064-4 , pp. 210-214.
  • Björn-Uwe Abels , Joachim Zeune, among others: Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Volume 20: Franconian Switzerland . Konrad Theiss Verlag GmbH and Co., Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0586-8 , pp. 227-229.
  • Hellmut Kunstmann : The castles of eastern Franconian Switzerland . Commission publisher Ferdinand Schöningh, Würzburg 1965, pp. 90-131.
  • Toni Eckert, Susanne Fischer, Renate Freitag, Rainer Hofmann, Walter Thousand Pounds: The Castles of Franconian Switzerland: A cultural guide . Area Committee Franconian Switzerland n.d. , ISBN 3-9803276-5-5 , pp. 179-184.

Web links

Commons : Burg Waischenfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see also list of Frankish knight families
  2. ↑ Hans-Michael Körner, Alois Schmid (ed.), Martin Ott: Handbook of historical sites. Volume 7: Bavaria II. Volume 2: Franconia (= Kröner's pocket edition. Volume 325). Kröner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-520-32501-2 , p. 564.
  3. ^ Hellmut Kunstmann: The castles of eastern Franconian Switzerland , p. 90
  4. ↑ Hellmut Kunstmann: The castles of eastern Franconian Switzerland , pp. 96–97
  5. ↑ Werner Dettelbacher, Stefan Fröhling, Andreas Reuss: Franconia: Discovery trips between Spessart and Fichtelgebirge: Würzburg
  6. ^ Rainer Hofmann, Björn-Uwe Abels: Franconian Switzerland. P. 229