Falkenhausen Castle

Falkenhausen Castle
Falkenhausen Castle
Data
place	Forest (Gunzenhausen)
builder	Carl Friedrich von Zocha
Client	Carl Friedrich von Zocha
Architectural style	Baroque
Construction year	from 1730
Coordinates	49 ° 7 '54.9 "  N , 10 ° 42' 28.5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '54.9 "  N , 10 ° 42' 28.5"  E
particularities
Architectural monument within the meaning of Art. 1 of the DSchG - monument number D-5-77-136-214

Falkenhausen Castle is a baroque castle in Wald , a district of Gunzenhausen in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-136-214 as a monument in the Bavarian monument list.

description

The baroque main building, a two-storey hipped roof building with rusticated corner pilasters, belongs to the listed castle property . The interior of the building is kept simple. In front of the facade there are two single-storey pavilions with a hipped roof and corner pilasters. The garden fence around the gardens laid out by the Zocha in 1732 as well as a barn , a stable and the courtyard wall from the 18th century are also listed.

history

Middle Ages - previous building Burg Wald

In the Middle Ages, there was a castle where the Falkenhausen Castle stands today, which the Lords of Truhendingen had as a fiefdom in the 13th century . They probably transferred this to a branch line of the Lords of Rothenburg as an after-fief . Knight Chunrad II. Gibo called himself "von Walde" as well as "von Chamer" ( Hohenkammer ). He appeared in 1284 as cathedral dean of Eichstätt as "Chunradus de Walde, notarius episcopi Ezteensis". His brother Walther appeared in 1323 as pastor of Wald. Chunrad von Wald died around 1303. Margaretha, probably his daughter, was married to the Eichstätt bailiff Chunrad von Werdenfels . Around 1304 Gebo, probably a son of Chunrad II, appeared in a document from Count Ulrich von Truhendingen. It was probably one of the Count's ministers. Giving was a common nickname among the Lords of Rothenburg, of which another line today owns the former Allodium in neighboring Cronheim . Another line of this family, the Schenken von Arberg, was temporarily located on the previous castle of the neighboring Eybburg near Kleinlellenfeld . The mentioned Gebo was probably identical with Eberhart von Walde or his brother mentioned in 1323 and 1328. A Walther von Wald (1292-1329) was the hospital administrator of Auhausen . From 1286 to 1288 he was named as the Notary of the Bishop of Eichstätt, and from 1302 to 1329 as the Cathedral Scholar of Eichstätt. After that, the castle seems to have passed on to others.

In 1350 the castle belonged to a quarter each of Eppelein von Gailingen , Konrad von Lentersheim , his cousin Konz von Lentersheim and Apel von Crailsheim and was decried as a robber barons nest. The castle was destroyed in 1375 after the raids of Eppelein von Gailingen, mentioned in the Nuremberg legends as "Eppela von Galla", by the burgraves of Nuremberg , whereupon Emperor Charles IV gave it as a fief to the burgrave. However, in 1386 he had to compensate the other co-owner of the castle, Konrad Fuchs von Suntheim zu Gunzenhausen, as the creditor of the Lentersheim shareholders with 375 guilders in cash. Apel von Crailsheim initially kept his quarter against the promise to “be present” to the burgrave. In 1381, Burgrave Friedrich V seems to have taken this part as well, because he assigned the “Veste Wald” to one of Lentersheim's personal belongings. In the same way it came to Martin von Eyb, in 1406 to Hermann von Vestenberg zu Wald, in 1448 to the Lords of Leonrod and in 1459 to the Lords of Modschiedel . In 1518, Emperor Maximilian tried to have the castle ceded by Margrave Friedrich V in order to give it to his favorite Veit von Lentersheim. However, this failed because of the death of the emperor. In 1565, the margrave hunter Michael von Dowitsch was bailiff in Wald. In 1610 the margrave himself gave office and castle to the Lentersheimers . In 1626 the castle came to the von Zocha family.

Baroque era

From 1730 Carl Friedrich von Zocha built today's castle in place of the complex . In 1749, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich , sovereign of the Principality of Ansbach , acquired the building for the family of his wife Elisabeth Wünsch, whose son was a Freiherr von Falkenhausen . The castle has remained the private property of the Falkenhausen family to this day.

literature

• Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 , p. 252-253 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Loss Falkenhausen in Gunzenhausen / Wald in the new Franconian Lake District
2. ↑ JPJ Gewin: The Affinities and Political Relationships between the Western European Princely Houses in the Early Middle Ages, HL Smits, 1964, pp. 253-256
3. ↑ Annual report of the historical association in the Rezat district, Volume 4, Nuremberg, 1834, p. 51
4. ↑ Castle Falkenhausen , www.altmuehlfranken.de, Regional Initiative Altmühl Franken , District Office Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen