Axtheid Castle

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Axtheid Castle

The Castle Axtheid is a castle in the district Axtheid the Upper Palatinate town of Vilseck in Amberg-Sulzbach of Bavaria .

history

The castle was the seat of the keeper of Castle Dagestein , also the official seat of the Bishop of Bamberg and seat of the Vilseck maintenance office. The castle property zu is mentioned for the first time in the Vilseck interest book, which was created between 1493 and 1506. However, the first keeper of the castle was Stephan Steinlinger zu Axtheid, who is mentioned as early as 1435. Jobst Merz von Zogenreuth and Ammerthal († 1656) and Hellziechen and his son Hans Hieronymus, who rebuilt the castle, are also mentioned here. In 1774 the castle became the property of the bourgeois Johann Georg Grösl (1706–1771); It remained in the ownership of the Grösl family until 1949, which is why the house name "beim Grösl" developed. Anna Maria Grösl married Johann Engelhardt in 1949 and the castle is still owned by the family.

On June 17, 1818, the formation of communities was ordered in Bavaria; Ebersbach and Axtheid appear together in this list. The municipality of Ebersbach (with Axtheid) initially united with Gressenwöhr without the consent of the government and on April 1, 1971, Gressenwöhr was incorporated into Vilseck.

Construction

The castle was built at the end of the 16th century. Presumably it suffered in the Thirty Years' War , so that a partial new building was necessary; This is evidenced by the year 1656, which is carved into the sandstone spindle of the stair tower . It is a two-storey, plastered solid building (marked "1799") with a half- hipped roof and corner pilasters that are highlighted in color . It has a stair tower with a half-timbered upper floor and a tent roof . The building was redesigned several times, for example in the first half of the 17th century, then again around 1686 and after 1700. The property has another building, which is color-coordinated with the castle, and a farm yard.

literature

  • Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district . Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1991, p. 124.
  • Karl Wächter, Günter Moser: In the footsteps of knights and nobles in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach. Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1992, pp. 74-75.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Leingärtner : Amberg district judge . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Old Bavaria, Issue 24). Munich 1971, ISBN 3-7696-9800-2 , p. 142 f ., above ( digital-sammlungen.de [accessed on July 20, 2020]).

Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 46.5 ″  N , 11 ° 48 ′ 39.1 ″  E