Ebneth Castle

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Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 42.7 ″  N , 11 ° 14 ′ 46 ″  E

Ebneth Castle

Ebneth Castle is a manor in Ebneth in Upper Franconia , a district of the town of Burgkunstadt . After being destroyed and rebuilt several times, it is now privately owned.

history

Rule of the Marschälke von Ebneth

At the site of the castle there was previously another fortified aristocratic seat, which had been built by the Marschälken von Ebneth . In 1353 Wolfram von Marschalk and his father Friedrich from the family of the Marschälke von Ebneth received the castle "Ebenot" from Archbishop Leopold III. as a castle hat . On March 31, 1400, Johann Marschalk received the castle complex. His successor was Hans Marschalk, who appeared as a seller or witness in several deeds of purchase for tithe and goods in 1425, 1445 and 1456.

The complex must have been divided into two parts by 1474 at the latest, as a contract dated June 12, 1474 between the cousins ​​Hans and Claus Marschalk regulates how far each of the two was allowed to enclose his part with a wall and which corners should be given towers. Presumably, this contract was concluded on the occasion of extensions and new constructions, as the castle was badly damaged or destroyed at that time, possibly a consequence of the Hussite War in 1430. Disputes during the construction of the facility resulted in disagreements between the two cousins an arbitration award on September 12, 1479 had to be clarified. The arbitrators were Günther Brandenstein (bailiff von Weismain and Stadtsteinach ), Mertein von Redwitz (bailiff von Kronach ), Hans von Schaumberg zu Strössendorf , Klaus von Redwitz zu Küps, Hans von Guttenberg zu Vorderreuth and as chairman Hans Rauschner zu Lindenberg , bailiff of Kasendorf , present. Among other things, the location of the lavatory bays at the mansion was determined and a decision was made to jointly build a moat, bridge and gatehouse. So it was a residence in Ebneth that had two owners and was therefore divided into two halves.

On June 16, 1487, the bishopric of Bamberg received half of the mansion (Vordere Kemenate) in Ebneth with half of the ditch, the forecourt, the gardens, fields, meadows and forests as a son and daughter loan from Claus Marschalk zu Ebneth. In return, he received a wedding allowance and a life pension for his wife Clara of 1900 guilders on July 30, 1487 . The sons of Claus' cousin Hans, Kunz and Heinz Marschälke von Ebneth carried their half of the castle ( rear bower ) with affiliations in 1487 or on April 18, 1490 to the Saxon Elector Friedrich III , probably due to the clouded relationship within the family . as a son and daughter loan. The new building of the residence was noted in the fiefdom letter, but this presumably refers to the years 1474 to 1479. After the death of Claus von Marschalk, the bishopric of Bamberg gave his half of the castle to his sons Fritz and Guntram as a feudal lord on February 2, 1508. In a contract on March 19, 1514, Fritz von Marschalk zu Wildenberg transferred the common half of the castle to his brother, including the sole administration. When Guntram died in 1518 or 1519, the Bamberg bishop transferred the fiefdom of the castle half to Fritz again on July 7, 1519.

During the Peasants' War , the castle was looted and burned down under the leadership of the Burgkunstadter captain Hans Kälblein. The then feudal man over the front bower, the son of Fritz von Marschalk zu Wildenberg, Wolf Christoph Marschalk, received 1000 guilders as compensation for the fire damage and a further 80 for the stolen goods from his lord, the Bamberg Bishop Weigand von Redwitz, who was closely related to him . Leander Marschalk zu Wildenberg and Ebneth together with the brothers Wolf Christoph and Jörg Marschalk zu Ebneth have been handed down as feudal men in the front chambers from 1548. It was under them that the reconstruction of the castle began, which was only partially carried out and lasted until 1585 under the sole administration of Jörg von Marschalk (from June 3, 1557) and Klaus von Marschalk (from October 15, 1578). On November 3rd of the same year the brothers Hans Christoph and Adam received the front bower. She was followed on December 12, 1594 by Michel Marschalk von Ebneth zu Wildenberg. In 1596 he pledged the Bamberg half of Ebneth Castle to Hans Adam von Künsberg against a credit of 4,000 guilders. Until it was repaid in full in 1613, the lock half remained in someone else's possession as a pledge. From 1597 the half of the castle was again subject to three brothers, Veit Ulrich, Michael and Siegmund, whereby the first two named waived the Wildenberg and Ebneth manors in writing on November 11, 1597 in favor of their brother in exchange for compensation. After Siegmund's death in 1609, Veit Ulrich , who had meanwhile become canon , was enfeoffed with their half of the castle as guardian of Siegmund's sons, Christoph Georg, Hans Eitel and Hans Hieronymus. After Christoph Georg came of age on May 10, 1618, he himself took up his fiefdom. His brothers followed him on January 2, 1624. In the Thirty Years' War the castle suffered further damage and burned down in 1649. The reconstruction lasted until 1657. On February 8, 1673, Hans Hieronymus and his cousins ​​Wilhelm Heinrich and Adam Ernst Marschalk von Ebneth received the Bamberg castle half of the front bunker as a fief.

Rule of the Counts of Seckendorff

At the beginning of the 18th century there were no male descendants of the Marschälke von Ebneth. On August 16, 1705, Christof Friedrich von Seckendorff married the landlord's daughter Wilhelmina Marschälkin von Ebneth. After her death in 1733 he inherited the castle and the property belonging to it and had a geometric plan of the castle made. The plan already shows the castle property as an ensemble, but at that time there were still two separate, but closely assembled, complexes. Part of it was that of Friedrich III. awarded Saxon fiefdoms. This included the castle that was burnt down and that had died at the time (the area of ​​which is the terrace of today's castle), the central courtyard and a garden with a preserved cellar behind the old caretaker's house. In its place stands the office building built in 1822 in the Biedermeier style. In addition, there were the farm buildings of the stone barn, a late Gothic solid structure that still exists in the core and the new stables built in 1724, today a building complex with the manor house built in 1792. As a replacement for the destroyed chapel, the ground floor of the Georg-Sebastianisches Marschalkhaus from the late 16th century was expanded as a church with organ and wooden stalls, both in the Baroque style , and roof turrets in 1749 . The prayer room on the raised ground floor is accessed via a steep flight of stairs. The castle, which was rebuilt in 1657, was part of the second part of the fief given by the Bamberg Monastery. There was also the old brewery , the hunting lodge (since various renovations in the 19th and 20th centuries, it has been more of a forester's house ) and two barns. On behalf of Christof Friedrich von Seckendorff, minor renovations were carried out on the north wing of the palace between 1752 and 1757.

Ebneth Castle in 1815. The two-part manor house with bridge and moat and the Georg-Sebastianische Marschalkhaus converted into a chapel are clearly visible
Castle courtyard and chapel of Ebneth Castle around 1930.

In the first half of the 19th century, one of the two parts of the castle described around 1474 was demolished. Between 1850 and 1875 the descendants of Christof Friedrich von Seckendorff renovated the palace complex. In 1972 the palace complex was renovated with the help of monument conservation funds . Since nothing has been changed in the structural substance, the castle is almost as it was in 1657.

description

The castle consists of two assembled, aligned gable roof structures , with a massive basement and an upper half-timbered structure each , which, like the roof, dates from the time of the second reconstruction between 1649 and 1657. A stone bridge from 1744 leads from the house over the former moat into the forecourt. All administrative and farm buildings have been preserved in the forecourt; this includes a forest and hunting lodge from the 18th century, which was renovated in the 20th century, and a brewery, which was built as a single-storey hipped roof building in the 18th century and later expanded with a two-storey extension. The buildings in the forecourt also include a bakery , a bailiff's house as well as various barns and stables , including a dog kennel with a wooden bar, and a chapel . There are orchards and ornamental gardens behind the main house.

The entire facility, which also houses a model train shop and a photo studio, was managed by Isabelle Callens, née. von Seckendorff, who also inherited Trautskirchen Castle , to the Callens-von Seckendorff family. Ebneth Castle is also the seat of the Foundation Callens von Seckendorff Guts- und Forstverwaltung Stiftung & Co. KG Ebneth-Trautskirchen .

Protection status

The castle property is protected several times by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. The area around the castle is listed as a ground monument under monument number D-4-5833-0166 . The castle itself is a monument with the number D-4-78-116-92 , the complex in its entirety has the number E-4-78-116-2 as a listed ensemble .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d History of Ebneth and Ebneth Castle , burgkunstadt.de, accessed on May 5, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Bach-Damaskinos (1996), p. 188
  3. ↑ a b Wenzl (1991) p. 84 ff.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Kunstmann (1978), pp. 97–110
  5. ↑ a b c d e Weiskopf; Raab-Aydin (2000), p. 33.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g Müller (1993), p. 37.
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Chevalley (1986), p. 297f.
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h i ( page no longer available , search in web archives: Schloss Ebneth, geodaten.bayern.de, accessed on December 7, 2012 )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / geodaten.bayern.de
  9. ^ Entry on Ebneth Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen"., Accessed on September 12, 2015

literature

  • Ruth Bach-Damaskinos, Peter Borowitz: Palaces and castles in Upper Franconia - A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Upper Franconian independent cities and districts. Verlag A. Hofmann, Nuremberg 1996, ISBN 3-87191-212-3 , p. 188
  • Denis André Chevalley: Upper Franconia: ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments. (Volume 4 of Monuments in Bavaria). Oldenbourg Verlag 1986, ISBN 3-486-52395-3 , p. 297f. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • Hellmut Kunstmann: The ring of castles around Wernstein in the Obermaing area . Degener, Neustadt (Aisch) 1978, ISBN 3-7633-4002-5 , p. 97–110 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown. Neue Presse printing and publishing company, Coburg 1974.
  • Johann Baptist Müller: The town of Burgkunstadt in the Peasants' War of 1525. In: CHW - year book history on the Obermain. Volume 19, CHW Selbstverlag, Lichtenfels 1993/94, p. 37.
  • Johann Baptist Müller: Prince-Bishop Georg II. Marschalk von Ebneth. In: CHW - Yearbook History on the Obermain. Volume 20, CHW Selbstverlag, Lichtenfels 1995/96, pp. 27-29.
  • Heinrich Ramming: The castle and church bear witness to a long tradition - from the eventful history of Ebneth. In: From the Franconian homeland. Kulmbach 1990, pp. 1-2.
  • Ingrid Weiskopf, Karin Raab-Aydin (eds.): Burgkunstadt, Altenkunstadt, Weismain - Art and Culture - Things worth knowing and interesting yesterday and today. Die Kulturmacher eV, 2000, DNB 991045734 , p. 14.
  • Franz Wenzl: The districts of the city of Burgkunstadt with pictures from days gone by. Geiger Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1991, ISBN 3-89264-247-8 , p. 84 ff.