Ebenhausen Castle

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Ebenhausen Castle

The Ebenhausen Castle stands in the Lower Franconian Ebenhausen , a district of the municipality of Oerlenbach in the Bavarian district of Bad Kissingen .

The castle belongs to the architectural monuments of Oerlenbach and is registered under the number D-6-72-140-17 in the Bavarian monument list .

history

A castle complex already existed at the site of the current Ebenhausen Castle in the early days of Ebenhausen. For the year 1315 a sale of both the castle and the place by Heinrich IV. Von Henneberg to his cousin Heinrich V. von Henneberg is known.

After the peasant uprising of 1525 , Ebenhausen Castle, which was also affected by the destruction, had to be rebuilt.

In 1576 the castle was sold to the Würzburg bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn . Under Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn, the barn next to the palace, which still exists today, was built between 1587 and 1603.

After renewed destruction in the Thirty Years War , the southern part of the property was built under Prince Bishop Johann Philipp von Greiffenclau zu Vollraths , possibly under the direction of master builder Balthasar Neumann .

In the course of the secularization of 1803, Ebenhausen Castle came under the government of Lower Franconia. After the administrator who worked for the government moved away in 1804, the castle became ownerless. This situation occurred again after the use by the hunter Joseph Haidt, who worked for the Ebenhausen Forestry Office, as known from a municipality register from 1834, when the Forestry Office was dissolved.

Components of the abandoned castle were stolen and misused until Michael Schubert acquired the property from the government of Lower Franconia in 1847 and it has been used for agricultural purposes ever since.

The damage to the castle from the Second World War , which had been caused by shell hits on the horse stable and castle barn, could be repaired again in 1946.

literature

  • Georg Dehio (Gre.): Bavaria, Vol. 1: Franconia. The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia ( Handbook of German Art Monuments ). 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-422-03051-0 , p. 293.
  • Anton Rahrbach, Jörg Schöffl, Otto Schramm: Palaces and fortresses 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. 149.
  • Werner Eberth : Prince-Bishop Julius Echter and his building inscriptions - A PR gag of the 17th century , Theresienbrunnen-Verlag Bad Kissingen, 2017, p. 38

Web links

Commons : Ebenhausen Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '34.8 "  N , 10 ° 7' 53.2"  E