Alte Kemenate Castle (Nagel)

Castle “Alte Kemenate” in Küps-Nagel

The Alte Kemenate Castle is located in the Nagel district of Markt Küps in the Kronach district in Upper Franconia in the Free State of Bavaria .

Geographical location

Nagel lies in the middle of the extensive valley landscape of the central Rodach . The favorable location of the place on this river, which served as a transport route in the Middle Ages , established the establishment of a total of ten noble residences in the area of ​​the Küps market, to which Nagel belongs. Nine of the ten properties still exist, some of which have been heavily modified or as ruins or ground memorials .

The Alte Kemenate Castle is located on the northern edge of the village of Nagel on Kümmelbergstraße.

history

Originally (1419) there was a "fortress and dwelling" on site, which belonged to Michel von Schaumberg and which he gave to Burgrave Johann III. from Nuremberg to fief. In 1499 Hans von Schaumberg sold the property to Baron Heinz von Redwitz . In 1563, his successors built a new residential building above the existing house on the slope, the "new" or "upper" bower . To distinguish between them, the old building was henceforth called the “old” or “lower” bower.

Temporarily from 1568 to 1595 the Neue Kemenate came into the possession of the barons of Wiesenthau until it was bought back by Georg Wilhelm and Wolfgang Heinrich von Redwitz. Only a few years later, in 1625, Wolfgang Heinrich sold the Neue Kemenate to Hans Heinrich von Künsberg . His son, also a Hans Heinrich, bought the old bower in 1691. Now the Künsbergers owned not only the nearby Tüschnitz moated castle but also the entire Nageler estate.

In the following decades, the new owners connected the old and new buildings with masonry, expanded them like a castle, and surrounded them with a wide moat. The dampness on the slope caused apparently irreparable damage to the structural statics of the Neue Kemenate , so that the building had to be demolished in 1859. In 1963 the pile foundations from the 16th century were uncovered during excavations . In 2008 the castle was inherited from the Barons von Künsberg, who still own Oberlangenstadt Castle , to the Vormbrock family.

buildings

Until two years before the demolition of the New Kemenate in 1859, the ensemble still had the appearance of a castle-like moated castle . The access road was led through the moat surrounding the property with the help of a combination of stone and drawbridge and further through a crenellated gate into the castle courtyard. In 1857 these structures were removed and the moat was filled with soil.

Old or lower bower

The three-storey old or lower bower with its three to four window axes and a gable roof has three barrel-vaulted rooms on the ground floor. Until 1857 there was a round stair tower with the entrance portal protruding over the eaves on the western long side . With the removal of the moat and the access structures, the stair tower was also torn down and a simple front door with a straight lintel was installed in its place. In the same year the gable roof was replaced by a combination of mansard and half- hipped roof . Above the new entrance door there is a baroque double coat of arms with the dates 1857 and 1963, the dates of major renovations by the Barons von Künsberg.

New or upper bunkers

The new or upper bower was built in the style of the late Renaissance Gothic style. The three-story building with a gable roof and stepped gable had a " Coburg bay window " on a column-supported console as a special ornament on its narrow side . The upper end of the bay window in front of the first floor was built in the first half of the 19th century. It consisted of finials and delicate pinnacles and a raised balcony with a tracery parapet .

grange

1000 year old oak in Küps-Nagel

The Alte Kemenate is surrounded by a small park with old trees. The mighty “millennial oak” stands on the northern boundary of the property . On a foothill of the Kümmelberg above the castle is the manor formerly belonging to it with a one-story house from the 18th century. The nine- to three-axle building has a half-hip roof with bat dormers . The stables, built in the middle of the 19th century according to the most progressive findings at the time, elevated the estate to a model farm .

literature

• Tilmann Breuer: Bavarian art monuments, district of Kronach . Volume XIX, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1964.
• Albert Elstner: The von Künsberg: the story of a Franconian. Noble family . Heim Verlag, Darmstadt 1972.
• Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown, 2nd volume . Druck- und Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse GmbH, Coburg 1978, pp. 150–152.
• 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 3-932416-00-7 .
• Albrecht von und zu Egloffstein: Palaces and castles in Upper Franconia: a manual . Wolfgang Widlich Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 978-3-8035-0344-2 .

Web links

• www.kueps.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles around the Franconian Crown ; Volume 2; Neue PRESSE printing and publishing company; Coburg; 1978; Pp. 141-145
2. ↑ Bavarian Office for the Preservation of Monuments: Architectural and ground monuments in Küps (PDF; 145 kB)
3. ↑ ^{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 150
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown ; Volume 2; Neue PRESSE printing and publishing company; Coburg; 1978; Page 152

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 24.5 ″  N , 11 ° 14 ′ 33.9 ″  E