Green Castle (Heroldsberg)

Green Castle (2015)

The Green Castle , also called Rabensteiner Castle , is the oldest of the four Geuder - castles in the Middle Franconian market town of Heroldsberg in the Erlangen-Höchstadt district .

history

Albrecht Dürer: The Church Village (1510)

The existence of a well-fortified building can be reliably proven at this point up to the year 1478. The appearance at that time is passed down through Albrecht Dürer's drawing Das Kirchdorf from 1510. A one-story stone building with a high pitched roof is visible on it, surrounded by a palisade fortification , which on arranged on two levels. Adjacent to the castle are buildings with half-timbered gables and hipped roofs .

In 1519 the building was surrounded by sandstone walls and destroyed in the Second Margrave War in 1552. The castle in its current form was then rebuilt in the second half of the 16th century.

Green castle with defensive walls from the 16th century (2016)

The name "Rabensteiner Schloss" goes back to the marriage of Johann Philipp Geuder (1597–1650) to Anna Elisabeth Rabensteiner von Döhlau in 1649. Johann Philipp Geuder was a councilor in Anhalt and Brandenburg and was most recently director of the three knight circles in Franconia, Swabia and on the Rhine. His descendants also belonged to the imperial knighthood and were nicknamed "Rabensteiner".

Until 1977 the castle was owned by the Barons von Geuder-Rabensteiner.

Web links

Commons : Green Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ admin: Sights. In: Heroldsberg community. Retrieved April 25, 2020 (German). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Brunel-Geuder, Eberhard: Heroldsberg. History of a market town . Heroldsberg 1990.
3. ↑ Open Monument Day - Power and Splendor. Erlangen-Höchstadt district, 2017, accessed on April 25, 2020 . 

Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '8.3 "  N , 11 ° 9' 29.3"  E