Aub Castle

View of the castle

Woodcut from 1523, the castle as part of the city fortifications

Aub Castle is a castle in the town of Aub in the Lower Franconian district of Würzburg ( Bavaria ).

location

The castle is located in the southwestern corner of the city and occupies the highest position. It is integrated into the city ​​fortifications .

history

Parts of the Romanesque Hohenlohe castle from the 13th century, which reached to the bottom of the moat that still exists on the north side, are the last remains of the original castle. But they are no longer recognizable from the outside. In a pledge document from the year 1369 by Gerlach von Hohenlohe to the Rothenburger citizens Holt Schuher and Goltsmit the "Veste in Awe" is the von Hohenlohe mentioned in writing for the first time.

The oldest part of the castle still visible today consists of the remains of the later castle with castle house and keep , which go back to the Truchseß von Baldersheim . who held the court office of the chief executive (Latin dapifer ) at von Hohenlohe , i.e. was responsible for administrative work, housekeeping, food and drinks. The tenth of the wine that the former winemakers of the Gollach Valley had to deliver used to lie in the cellar vaults of the castle and the hospital. Several of the numerous Auber inns used to have the so-called brewing rights .

The etymological meaning of the word Truchsess comes from the fact that he sat in front of the entourage. Truchsess has roughly the meaning of chairman of the entourage. The depiction of the town and castle shown is a hiking tour woodcut from 1523. The town was attacked and treasured by the Swabian Federation because members of the local von Rosenberg family made common cause with the robber baron Thomas von Absberg .

In 1436, when the Auber defensive wall with its 15 towers was completed after three decades of construction, the property of the Auber urban area was divided up. Since then, the castle, together with the Zehnthof opposite, where the farmers had to deliver their grain taxes (today in private ownership, recognizable by the high archway of the courtyard entrance), and the other houses between Oberer Marktzeile and today's Johannes-Böhm-Straße, have formed the Truchsessviertel.

Aub Castle was a Ganerbeburg and after the Hohenlohe died out (around 1390) half of the Auber town belonged to the Weinsbergers, a quarter to the Truchessen and a quarter to the Rosenbergers. Due to the extinction of the von Weinsberg family (between 1507 and 1521), later the Truchseß (1602) and finally the Rosenberg (1632), the Auber property fell piece by piece to the Würzburg monastery . Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn renovated the palace together with the hospital and town church in the course of the Counter-Reformation , expanded it into the seat of the Aub office in the late Renaissance style and made it one of his hunting lodges, which was also used by the later prince-bishops of Würzburg. On the keep is a weathercock, a griffin bearing the coat of arms of Prince-Bishop Johann Philipp von Greiffenclau . It is the same coat of arms that is emblazoned above the entrance to house number 16 in Mühlstrasse at the foot of Mangsteige.

literature

• Georg Menth: City of Aub. Baldersheim, Burgerroth. Aubanusverlag, Wolfrathshausen 1988, ISBN 3-924178-05-4 , pp. 37-43.
• Anton Rahrbach, Jörg Schöffl, Otto Schramm: Palaces and castles in Lower Franconia - A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Lower Franconian independent cities and districts . Hofmann Verlag, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-87191-309-X , p. 203.

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 33 ′ 4.4 "  N , 10 ° 3 ′ 51.5"  E