Speckfeld castle ruins

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Speckfeld castle ruins
East side of the four-storey tower "Frankenland" (April 2015)

East side of the four-storey tower "Frankenland" (April 2015)

Creation time : around 1200
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Wall remains
Standing position : Count
Place: Market Einersheim -New building yard- "Schlossberg"
Geographical location 49 ° 41 '55.2 "  N , 10 ° 19' 20.8"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 41 '55.2 "  N , 10 ° 19' 20.8"  E
Height: 420  m above sea level NN
Speckfeld castle ruins (Bavaria)
Speckfeld castle ruins
Speckfeld Castle before destruction, painting from 1701

The Speckfeld castle ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle on a wooded 420  m above sea level. NN high mountain cone, called "Schlossberg", about 2550 meters northeast of the market market Einersheim in the Lower Franconian district of Kitzingen in Bavaria .

history

The castle was probably built around the year 1200, the overlords of the complex were the bishops of Würzburg and Bamberg. From 1226 it was owned by the Counts of Speckfeld, they were followed by Ludwig von Hohenlohe in 1330 and Johann von Hohenlohe-Speckfeld until 1399 , from 1412 to 1713 it belonged to Friedrich III. Gift of Limpurg . In the course of the Peasants' War , Speckfeld Castle was destroyed on May 16, 1525 and then rebuilt. Another destruction took place in 1558 when a fire destroyed the north and east sides of the castle. It was then rebuilt in 1580. The Thirty Years' War (1618 to 1648) also left its mark on the castle when it was looted several times by Swedish troops and imperialists. It was also restored afterwards in 1624. The owner Vollrath Schenk zu Limpurg-Speckfeld moved in 1693 to his new Einersheim Castle in the town of the same name and left Speckfeld Castle as a mansion. In 1711 a daughter of the Limpurg-Speckfeld family married the Dutch Count von Rechteren , and from 1745 the family called themselves von Rechteren-Limpurg-Speckfeld. Then the hilltop castle began to fall into disrepair and was partially demolished and used as a quarry.

The castle ruins are owned by the Bavarian State Forests, and the remains of the castle have been restored since 1991. The castle site is registered as a monument D-6-75-148-19 "Speckfeld castle ruins" and as a ground monument D-6-6327-0008 "Speckfeld medieval and modern castle ruins" by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

description

A 15 meter high wall with an archway and three window openings, a side wall of the gate tower (a donjon ), remains of a castle cellar, small remains of the vault and the castle fountain are still preserved from the former castle complex . The moat can still be seen on three sides .

legend

After the castle was burned down in the Peasants' War, the legend went around that there is a treasure among the ruins. One farmer claimed that the treasure could be found under a hazel bush and even called in the bishop to get permission to dig up the treasure. The bishop is also said to have given permission and sent two servants to help with the elevation. But nothing was found and the farmer was laughed at in the whole area.

literature

  • Johann Ludwig Klarmann, Karl Spiegel: Legends and sketches from the Steigerwald. Reprint of the 1912 edition . Neustadt an der Aisch 1982.
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition. Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 571.
  • Walter Schilling: The castles, palaces and mansions of Lower Franconia . Echter Verlag, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-429-03516-7 , pp. 303-304.

Web links

Commons : Burgruine Speckfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Location of the castle ruins in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  2. ↑ a b Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - Floor Plan Lexicon , p. 571
  3. ^ Max Döllner : History of the development of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch up to 1933. Ph. C. W. Schmidt, Neustadt a. d. Aisch 1950, OCLC 42823280 ; New edition to mark the 150th anniversary of the Ph. C. W. Schmidt publishing house, Neustadt an der Aisch 1828–1978. Ibid 1978, ISBN 3-87707-013-2 , p. 127.
  4. ↑ a b c d Walter Schilling: The castles, palaces and mansions of Lower Franconia , p. 303
  5. ^ Max Döllner : History of the development of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch up to 1933. Ph. CW Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1950. (New edition 1978 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Ph. CW Schmidt Neustadt an der Aisch publishing house 1828–1978. ) P. 64.
  6. ↑ Website blau-tomat.de. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  7. ↑ 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. 326.
  8. ↑ List of monuments for Markt Einersheim (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 133 kB)
  9. ↑ Klarmann, Johann Ludwig (among others): Legends and sketches from the Steigerwald . P. 127.