Wittelshofen Castle Stable

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Wittelshofen Castle Stable
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Wittelshofen
Geographical location 49 ° 3 '44.4 "  N , 10 ° 28' 51.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 3 '44.4 "  N , 10 ° 28' 51.3"  E
Height: 430  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Wittelshofen (Bavaria)
Wittelshofen Castle Stable

The Postal Wittelshofen is an Outbound medieval moated castle in the Castle Strait of Wittelshofen in Central Franconia Ansbach in Bavaria .

history

The original castle was probably built as a wooden tower on a castle hill in the 11th century. It is uncertain whether it was a tower hill castle (moth). In the 12th century, the complex was converted into a stone castle, for which the water conditions of the soil were decisive in this area. From 1300 to 1380 the castle was owned by the Lords of Merkingen , who sold it to the citizen Wilhelm Hofer von Lobenstein . From this the property passed to the St. Gumbertus Abbey in Ansbach , from which the Margraves of Ansbach took it over in 1525. In 1856 the former margrave's castle was destroyed by fire.

Remnants of walls and moats as well as part of the outer bailey with the tithe barn are still preserved from the former castle .

literature

  • Ruth Bach-Damaskinos, Jürgen Schabel, Sabine Kothes: Palaces and castles in Middle Franconia. A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Central Franconian independent cities and districts . Verlag A. Hoffmann, Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 3-87191-186-0 , p. 189.

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