Hohenkottenheim castle ruins

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Hohenkottenheim castle ruins
Creation time : 13th or 14th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, less pronounced spur location, more on the edge of the plateau
Conservation status: Vault remnants
Standing position : possibly "noble free" of the high Middle Ages, then lower nobility / imperial knights of Seinsheim, from around 1650 counts / princes of Schwarzenberg
Place: Nordheim market
Geographical location 49 ° 35 '2.4 "  N , 10 ° 20' 12.8"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 35 '2.4 "  N , 10 ° 20' 12.8"  E
Height: 417.6  m above sea level NN
Hohenkottenheim castle ruins (Bavaria)
Hohenkottenheim castle ruins

The Hohenkottenheim castle ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle on the 416.6 meter high Hohenkottenheim of the Hohenlandsberg near the Kottenheim district of the municipality of Markt Nordheim in the Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim district in Bavaria .

history

The castle was first mentioned in 1356 when it was founded in Niederkottenheim, the seat of the family in the valley. The castle was the ancestral seat of the Counts of Seinsheim from the 14th century . In 1510, Melchior von Seinsheim zu Hohenkottenheim was granted the privilege of the blood spell (neck court) in the village of Nordheim.

On May 14, 1525, in the Peasants' War , the castle was destroyed, restored in the same year by Georg Ludwig von Seinsheim the Elder (1514–1591) and on June 19, 1553 in the Second Margrave War by Landsknechten of Margrave Albrecht Alcibiades under captain He burned down a second time. The reconstruction of the castle began in 1590, but it fell victim to a major fire.

description

From the former castle with greenish-light brickwork from the local quarries, only remains of walls and a cellar vault are preserved. Today's Wüstphül district was the castle's former dairy farm .

Presumably there was an old Germanic settlement on the Hohenkottenheim as early as the 2nd century, as indicated by coin finds, possibly a refuge for the Franconian settlers . The castle site is now a ground monument .

literature

  • Ruth Bach-Damaskinos, Jürgen Schnabel, Sabine Kothes: Palaces and castles in Middle Franconia . Verlag A. Hoffmann, Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 3-87191-186-0 , p. 170.

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