Lichtenstein (Pfarrweisach)

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Lichtenstein
Parish Pfarrweisach
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 29 ″  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 52 ″  E
Height : 434 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 90  (2017)
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Postal code : 96176
Area code : 09535
Former school house
Former school house

Lichtenstein is a district of the Lower Franconian community Pfarrweisach in the Haßberge district .

geography

The church village is located in the north-eastern part of the district on an elongated ridge of the Haßberge about 130 meters above the valley of the Weisach . Roads connect Lichtenstein with the neighboring towns of Dürrnhof , Buch and Bischwind . The Castle Lichtenstein dominates the townscape. Several Rhaetian sandstone cliffs were integrated into the castle.

history

Lichtenstein Castle , North Castle
South castle
Coat of arms of the von Lichtenstein family in Scheibler's book of arms

The north castle, the oldest part of the complex , was built between 1181 and 1215 by Messrs Stein von Lichtenstein , who are related to the Stein zu Altenstein family . The first mention of Lichtenstein was indirectly in 1215, when Tegeno von Lichtenstein exchanged goods in Reckendorf and Gemünd with the Langheim monastery . The village was probably created after the castle. The first direct mention of Lichtenstein Castle with a chapel followed in 1232 in the certificate of division of the Würzburg Prince-Bishop Hermann , in which Ebern was separated from the parish of Pfarrweisach and Lichtenstein remained with the mother church. The construction of the south castle followed around 1330/50 in place of a bailey.

Shortly after 1354 , the Würzburg prince-bishop enfeoffed six or seven local aristocratic families with parts of the castle complex, which was subsequently divided into several small residences and expanded as a Ganerbeburg by 1525 . After destruction in 1525 in the Peasants' War and in 1552 in the Second Margrave War , the north castle was only poorly repaired. In 1565 the Lichtensteiners succeeded in buying back the entire castle complex. From 1570 onwards, they expanded the largely intact southern castle as the headquarters to its present size. They left the north castle to decay.

In 1699 the main line of the family died out with Wilhelm Ulrich von Lichtenstein zu Lichtenstein. The castle was inherited from the Lichtenstein zu Lahm line . In 1845, Karl August von Lichtenstein zu Lahm, the last offspring of the branch line, died and the Lords of Rotenhan took over the castle and rebuilt the south castle in a romantic, historicizing way. After the church was built, the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Bischwind near Heilgersdorf was merged with that of Lichtenstein in 1735 . The seat of the united parish was Lichtenstein.

In 1818 the Lichtenstein community association was established, consisting of the parish village of Lichtenstein and the hamlets of Buch , Dürrnhof and Herbelsdorf . In 1862 Lichtenstein was incorporated into the newly created Bavarian District Office Ebern . The 813.90 hectare rural community had 237 inhabitants in 1871, 217 of whom were Protestant, and 37 residential buildings. The parish village had 76 inhabitants. An evangelical denominational school stood in the main town.

In 1900, 81 residents lived in 15 residential buildings in the main town. The place belonged to the district of the Catholic parish in Pfarrweisach. The Evangelical Lutheran parish was united with Bischwind . In 1925, 67 people lived in 16 residential buildings in Lichtenstein. 1950 the place had 121 inhabitants and 16 residential buildings. In 1961, Lichtenstein had 82 residents and an unchanged 16 residential buildings. In 1970 there were 81 and in 1987 74 inhabitants and 19 residential buildings with 20 apartments.

On July 1, 1972, the district of Ebern was dissolved and the municipality of Lichtenstein came to the Haßberg district. On May 1, 1978, the municipality of Lichtenstein was incorporated into Pfarrweisach, with the exception of the Buch district.

Attractions

Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Eternal Light

The castle complex consists of the north and south castle. The North Castle is a ruin complex with donjon , gatehouses, curtain wall and chapel. The inhabited southern castle is grouped around a courtyard. It has a Gothic residential tower and a three-storey Renaissance building , a kennel and a battlement .

The Evangelical Lutheran church "Zum Ewigen Licht", a hall with ashlar elements and with a saddle roof , ridge turrets and an onion dome was built in 1710–1729. It was a foundation by Florine Margarthe von Lichtenstein.

A total of seven architectural monuments are listed in the Bavarian Monument List .

Soil monuments

See: List of ground monuments in Pfarrweisach

Web links

Commons : Lichtenstein  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Discover, experience, enjoy - Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Ebern, September 2017, p. 41. ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / holch-medien.com
  2. ↑ a b History of Lichtenstein on pfarrweisach.de , accessed on June 26, 2020
  3. ^ Werner Schmiedel: Districts Ebern and Hofheim. In: Historical book of place names of Bavaria. Lower Franconia. Volume 2: Districts of Ebern and Hofheim. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-7696-9872-X , p. 30.
  4. ↑ Joachim Zeune: Knight's castles: building, rule, culture . Verlag CH Beck, 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-66091-7 , p. 18.
  5. ↑ Plate 7 on the grounds of the north castle
  6. ↑ Sign on the church in Bischwind
  7. ↑ Kgl. Statistical Bureau (ed.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to districts, administrative districts, court districts and municipalities, including parish, school and post office affiliation ... with an alphabetical general register containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875 . Adolf Ackermann, Munich 1877, 2nd section (population figures from 1871, cattle figures from 1873), Sp. 1293 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00052489-4 ( digitized ).
  8. ↑ K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Directory of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria, with alphabetical register of places . LXV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1904, Section II, Sp. 1305 ( digitized version ).
  9. ↑ 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. 1340 ( digitized version ).
  10. ↑ 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. 1176 ( digitized version ).
  11. ↑ 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. 860 ( digitized version ).
  12. ^ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria . Issue 335 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1973, DNB  740801384 , p. 187 ( digitized version ).
  13. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 362 ( digitized version ).