Fortress courtyard

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Fortress courtyard
independent city of Coburg
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 54 ″  N , 10 ° 59 ′ 6 ″  E
Height : 430 m above sea level NN
Residents : 5  (1970)
Postal code : 96450
Area code : 09561
Hotel fortress courtyard
Hotel fortress courtyard

The fortress courtyard is an eastern part of the Upper Franconian town of Coburg , which goes back to a former domain courtyard .

geography

The fortress mountain with the fortress Coburg is located east of the city of Coburg. As the spur of the Bausenberg, it advances into the Itztal . To the east, the Fürwitz and Rögnersberg, today's Brandenstein Plain, join. The fortress courtyard is located on a ridge between the fortress mountain and the Fürwitz .

history

Because of the exposed location on the ridge, the area around the fortress courtyard was probably settled early on. The Fürwitz shows clear traces of a high medieval rampart , which was probably built on the fortress mountain, the "Koburk", before the castle complex mentioned for the first time in 1056. In the area of ​​the fortress courtyard, a hermitage is said to have existed around the middle of the 14th century, for which there is an entry on the escort road map Coburg – Kulmbach from 1562.

A fortress sheep farm is documented for the 17th century. With a new building in 1762, the ducal sheep farm was relocated outside of the fortress. In the following years, the tenants of the fortress sheep were mostly also the tenants of the manorial fields on the Rögnersberg . The resulting full agricultural operation was called "Kammergut Festungshof" from 1802. The property had a tenant's apartment with an attached bakery, a coach house , a distillery, a cowshed, a sheep house and three Städel. In 1888 the farm, which has been known as a domain estate since the 1850s, covered an area of ​​95.3 hectares .

At the instigation of Duke Carl Eduard, the ducal domain administration demolished the estate in 1908. The largest piece of meadow and field on the property, the Brandenstein Plain, was transferred to the III. Battalion of the 6th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 95 leased as a parade ground. In 1913 the military opened an air base there, which later became the Coburg-Brandensteinsebene airfield .

The remaining properties of the domain yard were leased individually. The domain office had the manor buildings demolished for a new hotel building. The workers' house built in 1903 for four to five families was rebuilt in the Oeslau domain . A forester's house was built in its place in 1910.

The ducal Hotel Festungshof , opened in 1912, came into state ownership in 1920 and was then acquired by the Hofbrauhaus Coburg . At the end of 2010, the hotel and restaurant complex was sold to a private individual, and the hotel was closed in March 2012.

In 1925 the fortress courtyard had 25 residents and three residential buildings. In 1950 the community part had 19 people and one residential building and in 1961 with the Forestry and Domain Office, 18 residents and two residential buildings. In 1970 5 people lived in the place.

literature

  • Erich Meißner: On the older history of fortress sheep and the fortress courtyard . In: Blätter zur Geschichte des Coburger Land , 6th year, 1/77, pp. 20–30.

Web links

Commons : Festungshof Coburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bavarian State Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Official local directory for Bavaria . Issue 335 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1973, DNB  740801384 , p. 145 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ A b Klaus Weschenfelder: Veste Coburg. History and shape . Edition Braus, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-89904-196-8 , p. 15 f.
  3. ↑ a b Erich Meißner: On the older history of fortress sheep and the fortress courtyard . In: Blätter zur Geschichte des Coburger Land, 6th year, 1/77, p. 20 f.
  4. ↑ a b Helmut Wolter: Gustav Ludwig Dietrich . Coburg 1997, p. 25 f.
  5. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria according to the census of June 16, 1925 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928 . Issue 109 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1928, Section II, Sp. 1006 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria - edited on the basis of the census of September 13, 1950 . Issue 169 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1952, DNB  453660975 , Section II, Sp. 866 ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official city directory for Bavaria, territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census . Issue 260 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1964, DNB  453660959 , Section II, Sp. 638 ( digitized version ).