Eibwang Castle

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Eibwang Castle
Creation time : Around 1530/40
Castle type : Location; Valley location; Moated castle
Conservation status: Digging recognizable; Castle house with later additions
Standing position : Noble; Prince-Bishop
Construction: Jura quarry stone, plastered
Place: Eibwang
Geographical location 48 ° 58 '54.4 "  N , 11 ° 20' 23.8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 58 '54.4 "  N , 11 ° 20' 23.8"  E
Height: 396  m above sea level NHN
Eibwang Castle (Bavaria)
Eibwang Castle
The “Feste Haus”, north view
"Das Feste Haus", northwest view
Location sketch

Eibwang Castle is known as the “ Festes Haus ” and is the former seat of a feudal nobility and a former episcopal country residence in Eibwang . This district of Markt Kinding is located in the Anlautertal and in the Eichstätt district .

location

The "fixed block" (Eibwang NO. 2) is in spatial position of the Weiler Eibwang (two property) on a small survey of 396  m above sea level. NHN on the left the Anlauter in a bulge of the valley between the Schlößmühle, which used to belong to the manor, downstream and the Schafhausermühle upstream. It can be reached via the junction from the state road 2228 , which leads to the hamlet via a newly built Anlauter bridge in 2012.

Name interpretation

"Eibwang" is interpreted as "meadow with yews ".

history

Eibwang was the well-fortified residential building of the marshals of Eibwang , documented from 1351 to 1530 , who were feudal people of the Lords of Heideck . As a member of this noble family, a Stephan Marschall von "Eywangk" was named as a witness in an Absberg sales matter in 1418 . 1444 is a Wilhelm Marshal von Eibwang Richter in Heideck. In 1452 his brother Werner Marschall von Eibwang is mentioned in a document, but he is sitting in the stately Bechthal Castle .

Around the middle of the 15th century, the Haider von Lauterbach were fiefdoms from Eibwang; Hans Haider (the younger one) lived here. In 1458 the complex was destroyed in a feud . In 1472 Johann IV von Heideck sold the castle under Bishop Wilhelm von Reichenau to the bishopric of Eichstätt . In 1504 Eibwang is mentioned as a “splendid little castle”, as a destroyed property.

Probably the similarity of the place name with his name prompted Bishop Gabriel von Eyb in 1530 to buy up the ruins of Eibwang and restore it as an episcopal country residence. In the last five years of his life he is said to have retired here in the summer.

Eibwang was already a farm in 1554, which was divided into two properties, a farm and a Köblergut, in the Old Kingdom . That is probably why Eibwang was also referred to as the “Schlößelhöfe” in the 19th century. In 1830 two families with a total of twelve people lived here. Around 1850, Anton Bauer, a retired soldier, owned the farm. Even today, the “Feste Haus” and the neighboring property are still inhabited by private individuals.

description

The “Feste Haus” stands in the middle of a drained, approximately ten meter wide oval trench, of which three sides are still present, and a small ring , of which only a small remnant has been preserved in the northern corner. The roughly square area inside the ring is about 20 by 20 meters. The two-storey building in the middle of the Bering was originally narrower and was extended by an annex to the west. It is covered with slate . In the north, younger basement and above-ground storage rooms are added.

Above the arched entrance door on the western corner of the southern front side, the coat of arms of the Eichstätt bishopric is made of limestone on the left and the Eyb family coat of arms with the three shells and the year MDXXX (= 1530) on the right.

Inside, the hall runs along the western long side of the house. To the east there are three rooms: the living room with deep window niches, the kitchen with a barrel vault and a smaller room; the distribution on the first floor is similar.

The neighboring property, made up of several buildings, goes back to the farm yard of the "Festes Haus".

literature

  • Sparkasse Eichstätt (Hrsg.): The Eichstätter area in the past and present . 2nd expanded edition. Eichstatt 1984.
  • Felix Mader (arr.): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. II. Eichstätt District Office . Unchanged reprint of the Munich 1928 edition. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-486-50505-X .
  • Karl Zecherle (Red.): Castles and palaces . Eichstätt district in the Altmühltal nature park. Ed .: District of Eichstätt. 2nd unchanged edition. Hercynia-Verlag, Kipfenberg 1987, DNB  944206697 , p. 62-63 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A work of the century is complete. In: Eichstätter Kurier. May 3, 2012, accessed on July 24, 2015 (paid article, only first sentence freely readable).
  2. ^ Karl Kugler: Explanation of a thousand place names of the Altmülalp and its surroundings. One try. Eichstätt 1873, p. 95.
  3. ↑ a b The Eichstätter Room, p. 185.
  4. ↑ a b Mader, p. 96.
  5. ↑ a b Histor. Leaflets for the city and district of Eichstätt, 4 (1955), No. 3, p. 9.
  6. ↑ Certificate of the district judge Friedrich von Egloffstein from 1452 December 19. In: University archive. Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, December 2012, accessed on July 24, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Collection sheet Histor. Eichstätt Association 53 (1937), p. 114.
  8. ↑ a b c d Information board in Eibwang
  9. ^ Theodor Neuhofer: Gabriel von Eyb. Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt, 1455–1535. A picture of life. Eichstätt 1934, p. 138.
  10. ↑ Eberhard Freiherr von Eyb: The imperial knightly family of the barons of Eyb. Neustadt ad Aisch 1984, p. 137.
  11. ^ Alfred Wendehorst: The diocese of Eichstätt. 1. The series of bishops until 1535. Berlin / New York 2006, p. 250.
  12. ^ A b Gerhard Hirschmann: Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Part of Franconia. Row I, Issue 6. Eichstätt. Beilngries - Eichstätt - Greding, Munich 1959.
  13. ↑ Th. D. Popp: register of the bissthume Eichstätt ... after the state of v. J. 1835. Eichstätt 1836, p. 62.
  14. ^ Eduard Vetter: Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria. Ansbach 1856, p. 213.
  15. ↑ Announcement of the Kgl. District Court Ingolstadt No. 318. In: Neue Münchener Zeitung. January 27, 1854, p. 206.
  16. ↑ collection sheet histor. Eichstätt Association 49 (1934), p. 45.