Laudenbach castle ruins

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Laudenbach castle ruins
Castle ruins and Church of St. Agidius Laudenbach, view from the southeast, August 2011

Castle ruins and Church of St. Agidius Laudenbach, view from the southeast, August 2011

Alternative name (s): "Thick tower"
Creation time : around 1150, first mentioned in 1291
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Tower ruins
Standing position : Lower nobility
Construction: Smooth and humped cuboid
Place: Karlstadt - Laudenbach
Geographical location 49 ° 56 '48.4 "  N , 9 ° 46' 2.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '48.4 "  N , 9 ° 46' 2.1"  E
Height: 210  m above sea level NN
Laudenbach castle ruins (Bavaria)
Laudenbach castle ruins

The Laudenbach castle ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle at 210  m above sea level. NN above the church of the district Laudenbach of the city of Karlstadt in the Lower Franconian district of Main-Spessart in Bavaria .

history

The castle was built around 1150 by the Lords of Hohenlohe , sold in 1291 by Elisabeth von Hohenlohe to Gottfried von Schlüsselberg , then changed hands several times, including a. the Lords of Henneberg and the Counts of Wertheim , and was given several fiefdoms . In 1466 the property came to Eytil Voit von Rieneck , until it was abandoned in 1525, destroyed, burned out and never rebuilt in the German Peasants' War. As a “reparation”, the farmers had to build the New Castle on the Main side after 1525 .

From 1978 to 1983 the Upper Tower, popularly known as the “Dicker Tower”, was renovated by the city of Karlstadt, which owns the ruin today.

description

The castle, which was protected from steep slopes to the northeast and southwest, with presumably northeastern access, was separated from the mountain by a ditch . On the east side behind the church there is a donjon-like square 18-meter-high and 7-meter-wide tower with a humpback block facing , which is connected to the partially existing circular wall , where a cellar vault is visible through a hole.

Another massive, square, 10-meter-high, 7.6-meter-wide tower with 2-meter-thick ashlar walls and overlapping humpbacks at the corners is located on a higher terrace to the west .

In front of the main castle , for protection on the mountain side, are the remains of a third tower with a round arched entrance. A kennel from the 14th century and two semicircular towers embedded in the kennel wall can still be seen.

An allotment garden is laid out in the courtyard of the privately owned castle complex .

literature

  • Walter Schilling: The castles, palaces and mansions of Lower Franconia . 1st edition. Echter Verlag, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-429-03516-7 . P. 344.
  • Ursula Pfistermeister : Defensive Franconia. Volume 2: Castles, fortified churches, city walls around Würzburg . Hans Carl Verlag, Nuremberg 2001, ISBN 3-418-00386-9 . Pp. 68-69.
  • Anton Rahrbach, Jörg Schöffl, Otto Schramm: Palaces and castles in Lower Franconia , Hofmann Verlag Nürnberg, Nürnberg 2002, ISBN 978-3-871-91309-9 . P. 178

Web links

Commons : Burgruine Laudenbach  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Palaces and castles in Lower Franconia , p. 178