Effelder Castle
The Schloss Effelder originated in the core in the 16th century in southern Thuringia Effelder (Frankenblick) . The listed building has been used as the town hall since 2000.
history
A defense structure in an exposed spur location probably already existed in the late Middle Ages. It was probably the seat of the manor owned by the noble family von Schaumberg in Effelder in 1337 as a fiefdom of the Banz monastery . Around 1490 a residential tower was converted into a small castle, which Hans von Schaumberg had expanded between 1525 and 1533.
From 1665 the owners often changed. In 1743 Luise Dorothea von Sachsen-Meiningen became mistress of the estate on the basis of a legacy, which the Gotha ducal house sold to the Chamber of the Duchy of Sachsen-Meiningen in 1811 . In 1837/38 the estate was dissolved. The farmer Johann Georg Stammberger bought the castle and used it as an inn after major renovations. In 1933 the Neustadt brewery Werner bought the property and had the attic expanded. After the Second World War , it was expropriated. The new owner was the municipality of Effelder, which in 1955/56 commissioned the renovation according to plans by Max Brückner in the style of national tradition into a cultural center with a restaurant. In the 1950s the remains of the castle courtyard were converted into a park and in 1970 the moat was backfilled. Since a renovation between 1998 and 2000, which was caused by a roof fire in 1996, the castle has been used as a representative administrative building by the community.
architecture
The solid construction has elements of a defense structure as well as a castle structure. The first floor originally had no windows. Bay porches in the east and west structure the facade. The western bay window has slit-shaped windows similar to gunfire on the ground floor and an upper floor protruding on console stones with coats of arms. Some of the rectangular windows on the upper floor have a fluted profile and are designed as arched curtain windows on the inside. The arched portals on the north side were built in 1955/56. The mansard hipped roof was dendrochronologically determined to be 1769.
The ground floor is partially vaulted. It originally housed the kitchen and pantries. The upper floor has heraldic decorations from the first half of the 16th century in the rooms. The Easter bay is spanned by a cross vault and decorated with coats of arms of those von Schaumberg and von Rosenau. The western bay window has a cell vault in the shape of a star, which is dated around 1490.
literature
- Thomas Schwämmlein: District of Sonneberg. (Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Thuringia 1.) E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2005, p. 188.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated November 5, 2014 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.
Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 34.7 " N , 11 ° 4 ′ 43.7" E