Keudel Castle (Falken)
The Keudelsche Castle was a Renaissance castle and mansion of an associated manor in the Falken locality , now a district of Treffurt in the Wartburg district .
The remains of the aristocratic residence are in Theodor-Neubauer-Straße in the southern edge of the historical location.
history
The majority of the von Keudel gentlemen were officials and nobility at many of the Landgrave Hessian castles in the Werra Valley . In 1509, the branch of the family based near Hildebrandshausen on the Keudelstein manor house there received the fief of the village of Falken in the Treffurt estate from the Thuringian landgrave . The Keudels exercised over neck and neck jurisdiction in the village for over 300 years. The residence, built in 1577 as a Renaissance building in the local area of Falken, can still be recognized as a mansion through the striking portal with separate, now walled-up gate. The Keudel family can be traced back to Falken until 1839. Around 1860 an official forester of the Princes von Hohenlohe lived in the property. Dilapidated parts of the manor on Theodor-Neubauer-Strasse in Falken were gradually demolished, the remaining buildings with the distinctive gatehouse are under monument protection. In the passage, a coat of arms stone previously attached to the street was walled in.
literature
- Municipal administration Falken (Ed.): 900 years Falken on the Werra . Druck- und Verlagshaus Frisch, Eisenach 2004, ISBN 3-931431-31-2 , p. 24-26 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 51.1 ″ N , 10 ° 16 ′ 7.9 ″ E