Leonrod ruins

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Leonrod ruins
Upstream tower of the Leonrod castle ruins

Upstream tower of the Leonrod castle ruins

Alternative name (s): Lewenrode Castle
Creation time : 1200 to 1300
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Enclosing walls, keep
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Dietenhofen - Leonrod
Geographical location 49 ° 24 '16.3 "  N , 10 ° 39' 52.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '16.3 "  N , 10 ° 39' 52.9"  E
Height: 350  m above sea level NN
Leonrod ruins (Bavaria)
Leonrod ruins

The ruin Leonrod , also known as Lewenrode Castle , is the ruin of a moated castle on a pond in the Bibert Valley on the edge of the Leonrod part of the Dietenhofen market in the Ansbach district in Bavaria .

history

The moated castle was built in the 13th century as ancestral seat and Ganerbeburg by the lords of Leonrod , who emerged from the lords of Buttendorf , to secure an important road connection to Nuremberg and was first mentioned in 1235 with a Rudolf "miles de Lewenrode".

Structural changes were made to the castle in the 14th and 16th centuries. The castle was spared from the Thirty Years War , but shortly afterwards in 1651 it fell victim to a fire through negligence and was never rebuilt. A hunter's house was built in the 17th to 18th centuries. Today the castle is owned by a community of heirs that goes back to the noble family that died out in 1951.

One of the members of the noble family was Franz Leopold Freiherr von Leonrod , who was Bishop of Eichstätt from 1867 to 1905 and was one of the most important bishops in the diocese.

description

Of a deep moat surrounded very large castle had four buildings around a rectangular, 20 m high keep with high input at 9 meters in height, on an area of 6 by 6 meters and a wall thickness of about two meters. In the bailey were a chapel , the St. George's Chapel of 1327 and the hunters house with half-timbered upper floor and a hipped roof . The castle complex still shows the almost preserved keep and stately wall remains, vaults and the fountain in the castle courtyard as well as a fore tower. The castle site is now a ground monument .

literature

  • Wolfgang Krüger: The German castles and palaces in color. Castles, palaces, fortifications, manor houses and aristocratic palaces in the Federal Republic of Germany and Berlin (West) . Wolfgang Krüger Verlag / S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-8105-0228-6 .
  • Ursula Pfistermeister : Well-fortified Franconia: castles, fortified churches, city walls. Volume 1: around Nuremberg . Hans Carl Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-418-00384-2 , pp. 64-65.

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