Burgstall Reupelsdorf

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Burgstall Reupelsdorf
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Creation time : Has existed since the beginning of the 11th century, first mentioned in a document in 1230
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Castle stable, few remains of moats and walls
Standing position : Imperial Counts
Place: Wiesentheid - Reupelsdorf - "Schlosswiese"
Geographical location 49 ° 48 '50 "  N , 10 ° 17' 22.4"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 48 '50 "  N , 10 ° 17' 22.4"  E
Height: 210  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Reupelsdorf (Bavaria)
Burgstall Reupelsdorf

The Burgstall Reupelsdorf describes a lost moated castle in the Wiesentheider district of Reupelsdorf in the Lower Franconian district of Kitzingen . After the castle was burned down in the German Peasants' War, it was no longer rebuilt.

Geographical location

The castle was a moated castle on the south bank of the Schwarzach stream , on a 210 m high hill. The road between Bamberg and Schwarzach am Main passed the castle. The preserved remains are to the west of the main road behind the former village school. The facility was about 150 m west of the Reupelsdorf parish church of St. Sebastian . A small lake is reminiscent of the former moat that completely surrounded the castle.

history

The castle in Reupelsdorf already existed at the beginning of the 11th century. The Counts of Castell , lords of the village, owned the castle complex and lent it to various ministerials who sat on the fortification as castle men. In the 12th century, the lords of Seinsheim were castle men in Reupelsdorf. The future abbot of the Münsterschwarzach monastery, Gottfried von Seinsheim , was also born in the castle around 1132.

After the defeat in a feud in 1230, the Casteller counts had to hand over the bailiwick of the castle to the Bishopric of Würzburg , but received it back as a fief. Count Heinrich II. And Friedrich zu Castell sold the village in 1290 to the nearby Benedictine monastery Münsterschwarzach under the abbot Sifrid . The castle remained in the hands of the counts for some time.

In 1486 there were disputes about the fiefdom between the Counts of Castell and the self-confident abbey. The Würzburg bishop Rudolf II von Scherenberg had to mediate between Friedrich IV zu Castell and the abbot Martin von Münsterschwarzach . After the agreement, the count undertook to give the abbot the castle complex as a fief. The abbey continued to use castle men in the fortification.

In 1525 some Ochsenfurt farmers moved through Reupelsdorf on their way to the Zabelstein in the German Peasants' War . They burned down the castle of the hated landlords. After the uprising was suppressed in the abbey territory, the castle in Reupelsdorf was not rebuilt. On January 21, 1530, Abbot Georg and Count Wolfgang I. zu Castell agreed to rebuild the castle within 15 years. This was preceded by an arbitration by Bishop Konrad II of Thüngen.

The abbot's announcement to push ahead with the reconstruction was never implemented and the castle remained in ruins. In the following centuries the villagers used the castle as a quarry , and in 1808 the last remains of the wall were demolished. In 1979, during canal work, the remains of the vaults of the old castle were found. The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation classifies the remains of the castle underground as a ground monument.

description

Only a few remains of the castle have survived. A moat still surrounds the castle stable, in the southwest a round wall has been preserved. Both remains enclose an almost flattened core mound.

literature

  • Werner Knaier: 125 years of the Reupelsdorf volunteer fire brigade with flag consecration . July 16, 2000 . Wuerzburg 2000.
  • Rudi Krauß: The castles and palaces landscape: location distribution, brief description . In: District Administrator and District Council of the District of Kitzingen (ed.): District of Kitzingen . Münsterschwarzach 1984. pp. 198-204.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Krauss, Rudi: The castles and palaces landscape . P. 201.
  2. ^ Krauss, Rudi: The castles and palaces landscape . P. 201.
  3. ↑ Knaier, Werner: 125 years Volunteer Fire Reupelsdorf . P. 15.
  4. ↑ Knaier, Werner: 125 years Volunteer Fire Reupelsdorf . P. 15.
  5. ^ Krauss, Rudi: The castles and palaces landscape . P. 201.