Adlitz Castle

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The main building of Adlitz Castle

The Adlitz Castle is a castle in the center of Adlitz , in the municipality of Ahorntal in the district of Bayreuth in Bavaria .

There is also a castle of the same name in Adlitz (Marloffstein) .

history

From 1696 to 1718 Christian Friedrich von Rabenstein built the new Adlitz Palace on the remains of the old Adlitz Tower Hill Castle. In 1783 it was owned by the barons of Seefried as a Bamberg fief ; In 1788 it was called the Palatinate Fief. In 1851 the castle was the free, all-modified property of the von Seefried family, who still own it today.

The gate building with utility wing
Entire complex of the palace complex

The castle is a simple two-storey baroque hipped roof building with a two-storey gate. The ground floor is from the previous building.

literature

  • Bavaria I: Franken, Georg Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments. Tilmann Breuer (editor), Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1999.
  • Rainer Hofmann (edit.): Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Volume 20: Franconian Switzerland . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0586-8 , pp. 131-132.
  • Hellmut Kunstmann : The castles of eastern Franconian Switzerland . Commission publisher Ferdinand Schöningh, Würzburg 1965, pp. 279–292.
  • Hellmut Kunstmann: Castles in Upper Franconia, ownership, building history and fates. Part 1: The castles of the noble families in the Wiesent area . Verlag EC Baumann, Kulmbach 1953, pp. 145-147.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Adlitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Schloss Adlitz in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 13.4 "  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 59.3"  E