Dettenheim Castle

The castle at the blue hour from the garden side, 2012

The Dettenheim Palace is a palace in Dettenheim , a district of White Castle in Bavaria in the Middle Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-177-477 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. The postal address is Donauwörther Straße 5.

The palace is located south of the town center not far from the local barn church at an altitude of 433 meters above  sea ​​level . The marshals von Pappenheim had the single-storey hipped roof building with basement built by Sebastian Manz in 1782. The large garden is also a listed building. In the garden there is a draw well and a memorial obelisk from 1792.

A barn belonging to the castle from 1814 was rededicated in 1956 as the barn church Dettenheim St. Gunthildis . Before that, the blue hall of the castle served the Catholic community as a prayer room.

literature

• Gotthard Kießling: City of Weißenburg i. Bay. (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-87490-582-9 .

Web links

• Location of the castle in the Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( information )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Former of Leonrodsches Schloss , Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (pdf, accessed on May 18, 2016)
2. ↑ Topographic maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )

Coordinates: 48 ° 59 ′ 6.1 ″  N , 10 ° 56 ′ 45.9 ″  E