Büchold Castle

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Büchold Castle
Arnstein, Büchold, Burg, 001.jpg
Alternative name (s): Büchold Castle
Creation time : First mentioned in 1299
Castle type : Outskirts, hilltop castle, hillside location
Conservation status: Keep, curtain wall, vaulted cellar
Standing position : Clergy, counts
Construction: Ashlar masonry
Place: Büchold
Geographical location 50 ° 0 ′ 41 ″  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 3 ″  E Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 41 ″  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 3 ″  E
Height: 250  m above sea level NN
Büchold Castle (Bavaria)
Büchold Castle

The Büchold Castle , also Büchold Castle , is a castle ruin in Büchold , a district of Arnstein in the Lower Franconian district of Main-Spessart .

history

The castle looks as part of the community Büchold back on a long and varied history.

The hilltop castle Büchold ("castrum") was first mentioned in a document in 1299 as a settlement of the Würzburg Johanniterhaus . A few years later the property passed into the possession of the Counts of Rieneck after the Johanniter coming in high debt and was acquired by the Lords of Thüngen in 1364 . For more than 200 years it remained in their possession with the entire Büchold reign. The Lords of Thüngen expanded the Romanesque castle complex into a splendid Renaissance palace. With the Thüngen house, the Lutheran faith found its way into Büchold from around 1540 .

In 1596, Dietrich Echter von Mespelbrunn took over the castle and rule of Büchold. He carried out a strict re-Catholicization of Büchold. It was the time of the Inquisition and witch trials , which Büchold did not spare either. The women accused of being witches were tortured in the castle dungeon and burned on the Galgenberg. The parish church of St. Nikolaus u. The Visitation of the Virgin Mary, which was given its present form by Philipp Christoph Echter.

From 1652 to 1749, the castle was the feudal lordship of the von Dalberg , von Greifenclau and von Ingelheim families . Towards the end of the 17th century, the Dalbergs Büchold again flourished. They had a splendid baroque garden laid out east of the palace that lasted for over 100 years. The entrance to this complex, known in its time as a gem of baroque garden art, was extensively restored in 2006 by the Büchold association. With the dissolution of the high penitentiary office of Büchold , the castle and its surrounding facilities gradually fell into disrepair from 1769. From 1776 the renaissance buildings were demolished.

Büchold has belonged to the Kingdom of Bavaria since 1803 and a private citizen from Büchold acquired the castle ruins in 1818 . For almost 200 years, this family served the property as a small farm, which was closed in 2000.

In 2007 the dilapidated facility was acquired by the brewery owner Susan Schubert and her husband Henning Glawatz . The existing residential building from the mid-19th century including farm buildings were demolished and a single-family house was built in the middle of the castle complex. The actual castle was completely renovated between 2009 and 2011 . The keep was preserved and the ring walls stabilized and partially renewed.

Building description

The dominant restored keep

The round, 26 meter high Romanesque keep stands in the middle of the circular complex.

literature

  • Walter Schilling: The castles, palaces and mansions of Lower Franconia . 1st edition. Echter Verlag, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-429-03516-7 , pp. 321–322.
  • 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. 176.
  • Ursula Pfistermeister : Defensive Franconia. Volume 2: Castles, fortified churches, city walls around Würzburg . Hans Carl Verlag, Nuremberg 2001, ISBN 3-418-00386-9 , p. 25.
  • Walter Herdrich, Erich Füller (ed.): Büchold. The story of a Lower Franconian village. Vereinrings Büchold eV, Büchold 1998.
  • Henning Glawatz: Büchold Castle in the Mirror of Time: History of a Lower Franconian Aristocratic Residence. Rotabene Data Service, 2012.

Web links

  • Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
  • Complete restoration of the Büchold castle ruins . In: Monument Preservation Information, No. 149, July 2011, PDF

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ buechold-online.de ( Memento from February 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )