Altenmuhr Castle

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Altenmuhr Castle

The Castle Altenmuhr is a moated castle from the 12th century in the village Altenmuhr , which since 1976 with Neuenmuhr the unified community Muhr am See forms. The castle is one of the oldest and most interesting castles in the upper Altmühltal , among other things because it was immortalized in Schiller's Die Räuber in 1781 and was one of the locations where the film The Robber Hotzenplotz was filmed .

history

According to some legends , the castle was built in the 10th century during the Hungarian invasions . In reality, Altenmuhr Castle was built in the 12th century by the Lords of Muhr , Ministeriale of the Eichstätt bishops . In 1169 a Hartwich de Mure is mentioned in a document. The first comprehensive description of Altenmuhr Castle can be found in the Salbuch from 1551. The Lords of Lentersheim acquired the castle in the 14th century . After they died out, the villages of Alten- and Neuenmuhr and their castles came to the Principality of Ansbach . After Ansbach fell to Prussia, in 1799 Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia the castle to the minister Karl August von Hardenberg . The castle was rebuilt several times in the 16th, 17th and 19th centuries. In 1837 it became the property of Wilhelm von Le Suire . The building and the palace complex are still privately owned by the Le Suire family.

Building description and castle complex

The original moated castle with its keep was designed as a square kennel with four round corner towers. In the 19th century the walls of the castle and the moat were removed, so that only the main building from the early 17th century can be seen. The keep, which is also still preserved, has a height of 20 and a wall thickness of approx. 1.6 meters. The three-storey west building with volute gable has rich stucco ceilings on the second floor by Hans Kuhn from Nuremberg from the early 17th century. In the four-storey, almost tower-like east wing from the 14th or 15th century, a room that was last renovated in 2006 has preserved a precious grisaille wallpaper from around 1810/20, which was last renovated in 2006.

South of the actual castle is the listed former castle brewery with a crippled hipped roof from the early 18th century and some barns and stables with half-timbered houses . The garden pavilion in the castle park, which was laid out in the late 18th century, dates from the 19th century . Although the moat was leveled in the 19th century, an 18th century bridge has been preserved.

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 , p. 372-375 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Muhr und die Räuber by Friedrich Schiller ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (pdf; 81 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.muhr-am-see.de
  2. ^ Muhr and Schiller
  3. Friedrich Schiller - The robbers
  4. Annual report of the historical association in the Rezat district, Volume 6, p. 66
  5. History of the castle on burgenwelt.de
  6. Description of the castle on the website of the Altmühltal Nature Park
  7. Website of the architectural heritage office of the Free State of Bavaria

Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 20 ″  N , 10 ° 42 ′ 18.2 ″  E