Georgenthal hunting lodge

The hunting lodge Georgenthal is an abandoned castle near Lindenbühl , a district of the Haundorf community in the Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-138-10 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. At the same time, the remains of the building are registered as a ground monument (number D-5-6830-0089). The hunting lodge is only mapped as a ground monument in the Bavarian Monument Atlas .

The hunting lodge was located in the far north-west of today's Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district on the Georgenthal pond through which the Mönchberggraben flows, not far from the Pechhütten springs , remote in the Spalter Hügelland in today's Franconian Lake District in the middle of the Haundorfer Forest not far from the Lindenbühler Rangen and the Mönchsberg at an altitude of 454 meters above sea level . Lindenbühl is to the southwest, Leidingendorf to the southeast and Oberhöhberg to the northeast .

The hunting lodge was built in 1695 by the Ansbach margrave Georg Friedrich II. The Younger and redesigned in 1738 by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich . From 1734 to 1757 the castle served as the residence of Karl Wilhelm Friedrich's lover, Elisabeth Wünsch . In 1764 the castle was torn down and a pigsty was built with the stones. The court church of the hunting lodge was the St. Wolfgang Church in Haundorf. Only small remains of the foundation wall of the hunting lodge are visible today. Not far from there is an atonement cross .

literature

Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 , p. 269 .
Gottfried Stieber: Georgenthal . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 392 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Location of the hunting lodge Georgenthal in the Bavarian Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( information )

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Georgenthal , list of monuments of the Haundorf community at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
^ Location of the castle in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
↑ Topographic maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )
↑ Church history Haundorf 2014 , Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office Gunzenhausen , accessed on March 27, 2016

49.18827 10.76336Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 17.8 ″ N , 10 ° 45 ′ 48.1 ″ E

[bel1-1] Georgenthal , list of monuments of the Haundorf community at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation

[2] Location of the castle in the Bavarian Monument Atlas

[bel2-3] Topographic maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )

[4] Church history Haundorf 2014 , Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office Gunzenhausen , accessed on March 27, 2016