Wiesentfels Castle

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Wiesentfels Castle
Wiesentfels Castle, the Wiesentfels village and the Wiesent River

Wiesentfels Castle, the Wiesentfels village and the Wiesent River

Creation time : around 1333
Castle type : Rock castle, location
Conservation status: Received or received substantial parts
Standing position : Count
Place: Wiesentfels
Geographical location 49 ° 57 '22 "  N , 11 ° 13' 6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '22 "  N , 11 ° 13' 6"  E
Wiesentfels Castle (Bavaria)
Wiesentfels Castle

The castle Wiesent rock is a rock castle above the village Wiesent rock the Upper Franconian town Hollfeld in the district of Bayreuth . The castle is privately owned and can be visited.

Geographical location

It towers over the valley of the Wiesent on a 40 meter high cliff.

history

The castle was owned or partially owned by the Counts of Giech from 1333 to 1938 . Knight Albert von Giech received the castle as a fief from the Bamberg Monastery in 1333 . In 1412 two thirds of the castle were given to Heinz von Schaumberg as Unterwiesentfels and in 1415 one third of the castle was given to Hans II von Giech as Oberwiesentfels.

After the Hussite invasion in 1433, Oberwiesentfels was described as desolate and disappeared from the fief books in 1467. Wiesentfels Castle was rebuilt from 1476 to 1481. In 1487 the brothers Otto and Dietz von Giech received half of the new castle from the bishopric as a fief. In 1525 it was burned down by rebellious farmers and then rebuilt in the old style by Count Achaz von Giech.

In 1632 the bishopric withdrew the fiefdom of the Protestant nobles and enfeoffed Colonel Hans Wolf von Salis . In 1654, after lengthy inheritance disputes, the line of the Lords of Giech from Thurnau Castle was enfeoffed with Wiesentfels, who were raised to the rank of count in 1695. From then on, the castle remained the residence and property of the Counts of Giech until 1938, when the last Count died. The heirs sold it in 1969, and in 2009 it was sold again.

literature

  • Kai Kellermann: Stately gardens in Franconian Switzerland - a search for traces . Palm & Enke Verlag, Erlangen and Jena 2008, ISBN 978-3-7896-0683-0 , pp. 272-277.

Web links

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