Scherenburg castle ruins

Scherenburg castle ruins
	Scherenburg ruins
Alternative name (s):	Scherenberg Castle
Castle type :	Höhenburg, hillside location
Conservation status:	before 1243
Standing position :	Count
Place:	Gemünden am Main
Geographical location	50 ° 3 '23.9 " N , 9 ° 41' 29.9" E Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '23.9 " N , 9 ° 41' 29.9" E
Height:	200 m above sea level NN

The Scherenburg castle ruins , also called Scherenberg Castle , are the ruins of a hillside castle ( hillside castle ) at 200 m above sea level. NN on a slope above the town center of Gemünden am Main in the Lower Franconian district of Main-Spessart in Bavaria .

history

Keep of the Scherenburg ruins

The castle was probably built before 1243 by the Counts of Rieneck , who owned the land there, as a customs castle to secure their customs income when crossing the river Main and the borders to Würzburg . This led to disputes with the Würzburg bishop Hermann I von Lobdeburg , who had the Slorburg built in the immediate vicinity to demonstrate his power here as well. In 1243 the disputes were settled through a settlement.

In 1469 the castle finally came to Würzburg and received the name of Prince-Bishop Rudolf II von Scherenberg and served as an official cellar until 1598 and was habitable until the 18th century. A wedding took place in the castle chapel in 1732.

In the second half of the 18th century the castle complex, which had been privately owned since 1825 and has been the property of the city of Gemünden since 1965, began to fall into disrepair.

description

Of the castle these are castle gate in the southeast, a portion of the shield wall (once connected to the walls into an integral circular wall ), the round keep (bat quarters and therefore no longer mountable), a gable wall of the basement Palas and before a small kennel (viewing terrace above the Main and Saale valley as well as in the Spessart).

Todays use

Since the 1990s, the Scherenburg Festival (open-air play) has taken place in the inner courtyard of the castle ruins in the summer .

literature

Walter Schilling: The castles, palaces and mansions of Lower Franconia . 1st edition. Echter Verlag, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-429-03516-7 , pp. 330–331.
Ursula Pfistermeister : Defensive Franconia. Volume 2: Castles, fortified churches, city walls around Würzburg . Hans Carl Verlag, Nuremberg 2001, ISBN 3-418-00386-9 , pp. 41-42.

Web links

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