Upper Küps Castle (Schemenau)

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Upper Castle (Schemenau House) in Küps

The Upper Castle or House Schemenau is one of three existing former aristocratic residences in the town of Markt Küps in the Kronach district in Upper Franconia in the Free State of Bavaria .

Geographical location

The small market in Küps is located in the middle of the extensive valley landscape of the central Rodach . Slavs immigrated from the east are considered to be the founders of the settlement on the mountainside on the left bank of the Rodach . Prehistoric finds also point to an earlier settlement of the area by Celts . The favorable location of the place on the Rodach, which served as a transport route in the Middle Ages , established the establishment of four aristocratic seats.

So in 1151 the beginnings of the Old or Middle Castle were built , around 1400 the first buildings of the New or Rear Castle , before 1521 a fortified courtyard ( Hofgut Melanger ) and before 1540 the Upper Castle in Kulmbacher Straße on the highest point of the place next to the North side of the Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Jakob.

While the Hofgut Melanger was already described as abandoned in 1668, the three other aristocratic residences in the locality still exist. Six more were built between the 13th and 18th centuries in the immediate vicinity of Küps: the castles in Oberlangstadt , Hain , Schmölz , Theisenort , the moated castle in Tüschnitz and the old bower in Nagel. All are or were in today's Küps market area.

history

The formerly free residence of the Barons von Redwitz-Küps was built in its current appearance at the beginning of the 17th century with the participation of Thomas Eullenschmidt . The previous building was largely destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525 and modestly rebuilt in 1540 by Bamberg's Prince-Bishop Weigand von Redwitz. In 1612 the building was extended to include the upper half-timbered storey and the steep gable roof that Georg Zigler built.

In 1721 an outbuilding was added to the property. From 1811 the barons of Redwitz began to sell their Küpser possessions with the exception of the New Palace. The Upper Castle was sold to the Gagel & Schemenau company in 1886. Since then, the Upper Castle has also been known as the "Schemenau House".

construction

The saddle roof building with the stone basement and the two half-timbered upper floors has a pretty, arched seating niche portal as the main entrance on the east side. The profiled door frame is adorned with rosettes and a lion mask, over which the stonemason Thomas Eullenschmit has immortalized himself with signs and names. In the lower part there are corner seating niches with shell finishes.

Ornamental framework

The rich ornamental framework has stands with notched carvings and curved St. Andrew's crosses . The gable triangle is slated. Inside, the ceiling of the vestibule rests on wooden pillars, while the southern part of the ground floor is covered by a barrel vault .

literature

  • Tilmann Breuer: Bavarian art monuments, district of Kronach . Volume XIX, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1964.
  • Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown, 2nd volume . Druck- und Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse GmbH, Coburg 1978, pp. 141–146.
  • Heinrich Pöhlmann: History of the market town Küps . Schulze Verlag, Lichtenfels 1908.
  • Hans Schleicher: The history of the market Küps . Frank de la Porte publishing house, Küps 1996, ISBN 3932416007 .
  • Albrecht von und zu Egloffstein: Palaces and castles in Upper Franconia: a manual . Wolfgang Widlich Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 9783803503442 .

Web links

Commons : Upper Castle (Küps)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown ; Volume 2; Neue PRESSE printing and publishing company; Coburg; 1978; Page 141
  2. ^ Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles around the Franconian Crown ; Volume 2; Neue PRESSE printing and publishing company; Coburg; 1978; Pp. 141-143
  3. ↑ Bavarian Office for the Preservation of Monuments: Architectural and ground monuments in Küps (PDF; 145 kB)
  4. ↑ a b c d Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown ; Volume 2; Neue PRESSE printing and publishing company; Coburg; 1978; Page 143

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 27.7 "  N , 11 ° 16 ′ 38.8"  E