Wildberg Castle Stables

Wildberg Castle Stables
Alternative name (s):	Wildberg Castle
Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Market Nordheim - Wildberghof - "Wildberg"
Geographical location	49 ° 33 '8.6 "  N , 10 ° 18' 48.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '8.6 "  N , 10 ° 18' 48.9"  E

The Burgstall Wildberg , also called Wildberg Castle , is an abandoned medieval hilltop castle on the Wildberg near Wildberghof , a current district of the market town of Markt Nordheim in the Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim district in Bavaria .

The castle was probably built around 1050 by the local nobility of Ulsenheim von Wildberg. In 1242 a Manegoldus de Wildberg was named when he handed over his property to the St. Marx Monastery in Würzburg .

Although the castle is in the Ulsenheimer Flur, it is closely linked to the history of Herbolzheim . In 1303 the Counts of Henneberg are named as the owners of the castle. In 1345 the castle was owned by Bishop Otto von Würzburg, who gave it to Erkinger von Seinsheim as a castle loan with the order to develop it as a monastery fortress, the construction costs of which were earned by a "Weingilt" from Herbolzheim. In 1394 Wilhelm von Herbolzheim, based at Wildberg Castle, provoked the breach of the peace between Rothenburg and Seinsheim , which prompted the Würzburg bishop to send soldiers against his subjects in Herbolzheim as well. On September 7, 1399, the Rothenburgers looted and devastated the fortress after a storm attack.

In 1413, Erkinger VI owned von Seinsheim half of Wildberg Castle as a fiefdom of the Würzburg bishop. In 1674 a gentleman von Wildberg is mentioned again as envoy to the Franconian district council in Windsheim . The castle was later sold to the Truchseß von Wetzhausen family and then to the Julius Hospital in Würzburg. According to reports from 1822, the vaults of the castle had collapsed and the stones were brought to Ulsenheim, the wall leveled, the castle fountain and the horse pond filled in. In 1858 the establishment of today's Wildberghof , also called Wildberghof Castle, began on the castle site with the construction of a farm building by Edgar von Öfele , which was acquired by the Endress family in 1984 and converted into an inn with guest rooms and holiday homes.

literature

• Hans Karlmann Ramisch: Bavarian art monuments 22, district of Uffenheim . Munich 1966

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wildberghof at wildberghof.de
2. ↑ Wildberg Castle at osingverein.de
3. ^ Entry on Wildberg Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".