Upper Geisingen Castle

The Upper Castle Geisingen , also Kniestedtsches Castle or New Castle , is a castle in the Freiberg district of Geisingen in the Baden-Württemberg district of Ludwigsburg in Germany .

The area south of the Nikolauskirche is mentioned as the courtyard of the Bebenhausen monastery as early as 1356 . In 1361 the lords of Stammheim bought the land from the knight Friedrich Sturmfeder, who maintained it as a Württemberg fief . In 1592 the building is known as Maierhof owned by the Schertlin von Burtenbach family , who inherited the place after the von Stammheim family had died out in 1588. In 1720 it was bought by Friedrich Ludwig von Kniestedt , who in 1723 also built today's castle with a half-timbered construction. In 1786 the castle was sold to Tobias Bender and in 1788 to Duke Karl Eugen von Württemberg . In 1982 the city of Freiberg bought the castle grounds. The castle was renovated until 1987.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Dagmar Zimdars [edit.]: Georg Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments. Baden-Württemberg I. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 , p. 252.
2. ^ Christian Ottersbach, Holger Starzmann: Castles - Palaces - Manor houses. Volume 5. Imhof-Verlag, Petersberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86568-638-1 , p. 72.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Upper Castle Geisingen on SchlösserRundschau.de . Accessed January 7, 2014.
4. ^ Ulrich Gräf: Art and cultural monuments in the Ludwigsburg district. Theiss, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-8062-0466-7 , p. 107.
5. ^ Ulrich Hartmann [Ed.]: The Ludwigsburg district. Theiss, Stuttgart and Aalen 1977, ISBN 3-8062-0168-4 , p. 156.

Coordinates: 48 ° 56 '21.8 "  N , 9 ° 11' 10.9"  E