Birken Castle

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Birken Castle

The former margravial ministerial house Schloss Birken is a baroque complex in the Bayreuth district of Birken .

Surname

Birken Castle probably got its name from "... that there was a particularly large - or in the first few times even a single Bircken tree - at least this type of tree is extremely rare around the city ...".

history

Main entrance
Garden side

A farm in the field on the Pircken was first mentioned in 1507. Margrave Christian Ernst gave it to his court marshal Hans Wilhelm von Erffa in 1684 because of a wage arrears . In the years 1687 to 1692 Erffa had the old buildings demolished and the Minister's House with a baroque garden and tea house built in their place according to plans by Charles Philippe Dieussart .

After Erffa's death, his daughter Christiane Charlotte inherited the property and brought it into her marriage to Freiherr Erdmann von Stein , Prime Minister of Bayreuth . Both lived together at Birken Castle from 1724 until his death in 1739. During the summer months, Birken was the permanent residence of the margravial minister. In the audience hall he received court officials, envoys and supplicants, in the baroque hall splendid celebrations took place.

After the death of her husband, Christiane Charlotte set up a foundation for Schloss Birken . With a letter of foundation dated July 30, 1740, she decreed that after her death (1752) “... four poor noble widows or young women with accommodation, costs and maintenance will be provided and kept on the Bircken at all times ...”. In addition to the four noble ladies from the von Erffa and von Stein families , four middle-class widows from Bayreuth were also to receive accommodation and board. She gave precise instructions for the ladies to live together; in money for clothes should be received: the former 50 thalers, the latter 5 thalers a year. The food should be communal, but civilly separated from the nobles. The active beginning of the foundation can be dated to 1756. In 1813 a military hospital for those suffering from nerve fever was set up on the Freyherrlichen von Steinische Stift Birken . During the First World War, the building was used as a hospital for wounded soldiers; in the city map from the 1930s, the complex is referred to as the Birken monastery . The foundation existed for over 200 years. In 1956 the monastery administration sold Birken Castle to a private person.

The Birken district did not emerge until the 1930s, and for a long time the castle stood largely alone. In 1745 the Riediger map showed the area around the castle as completely undeveloped. The associated farm was abandoned in 1952, and from 1954 to 1978 there was a garden center on the site. After that, houses were built there that form a semicircle.

Others

The allegation that can sometimes be found that Christian Ernst's donation to Erffa was a hunting lodge cannot be substantiated. The adjacent street, Schloßhof Birken, was only called Birken until 1977 .

Web links

Commons : Bayreuth  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sights under bayreuth.de ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 5, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bayreuth.de
  2. ↑ Johann Sebastian König: MS 128 - Description of the streets and houses of the city of Bayreuth, Vol. II, end of the 18th / beginning of the 19th century, quoted from Sigrid Horsch: Schloss Birken - das aristocratic Fräuleinstift , Bayreuth 1993, Archive for the History of Upper Franconia , Vol. 73, p. 367.
  3. ↑ General encyclopedia of the sciences and arts in alphabetical order of the mentioned scripts edited and edited by JS Erz and JG Gruber , 1842, page 438. [1]
  4. ^ Printer Neumeister, Bayreuth Kanzleistraße 1: Map of the city of Bayreuth, scale 1: 8500
  5. ↑ Rosa and Volker carbon home: Bayreuth from AZ , S. 104th

Coordinates: 49 ° 55 ′ 59.3 "  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 36.8"  E