Wunsiedel Castle

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Wunsiedel Castle
Creation time : 11th to 12th centuries
Castle type : Location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Wunsiedel
Geographical location 50 ° 2 '15.6 "  N , 12 ° 0' 17.1"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 2 '15.6 "  N , 12 ° 0' 17.1"  E
Wunsiedel Castle (Bavaria)
Wunsiedel Castle

The castle Wunsiedel is an Outbound town castle in Wunsiedel in Upper Franconia district Wunsiedel in Bavaria .

Wunsiedel Castle was built in the 11th or beginning of the 12th century to secure a ford and a crossroads along an old road . In 1163 "Adelbertus de Wunsiedil" was mentioned in a document. The von Vogtsberg family had been fortunate with the castle since the beginning of the 14th century. Under the Nuremberg burgrave Friedrich IV , the castle came under the influence of the Franconian Hohenzollern and the castle became the seat of bailiffs . Wunsiedel was particularly affected by acts of war during the Hussite Wars and the Bavarian War . Later the offices of Wunsiedel and Hohenberg were merged and the common seat was Hohenberg Castle . The castle was renovated in 1504 for Captain Alexander von Lüchau , and in 1515 it received a water pipe with a tubular box well and three fish boxes . In 1607 the castle fell victim to a city ​​fire and the Thirty Years' War at the latest prevented reconstruction. In 1731 the place of the castle was finally released for other development.

Street names such as Burggraben or Burggasse still remind of the castle . The residential building at Burggasse 3 is now a monument because a remnant of the former donjon was built into it.

literature

  • Elisabeth Jäger : Wunsiedel 1163–1560. Volume I, a history of the castle and city of Wunsiedel . Wunsiedel 1987.
  • Harald Stark : Castles in the Fichtel Mountains . In: Contributions to the history and regional studies of the Fichtelgebirge . Issue 10. Wunsiedel 1988. pp. 43-45.

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