Geiersberg Castle

Geiersberg Castle

The castle Geiersberg is southeast of the city Sesslach in Coburg in Upper Franconia on a counter Rodach reason advanced ridge of citizens forest. It is also an officially named parish subname. The property is also known as Geyersberg Castle .

history

A castle probably already existed in the 12th century to protect Sesslach. The first documentary mention was in 1290, when the Würzburg bishop Manegold pledged the "castrum Gyrsberg" as the administrative seat with the associated court to Karl von Heldritt . Manegold had previously had the castle property, which was destroyed in 1244, rebuilt. Redeemed again in 1304, the castle was given to Heinrich von Schaumberg as a fief . From 1316 Albert von Lichtenstein held the castle seat as an episcopal castle fief from Würzburg. After the castle man Lutz Schott in 1331, Apel von Lichtenstein, the Lichtensteiners, became the owners of the property for around 500 years in 1337. In 1671 the Geiersberg line of the Lichtensteiners died out and their rights passed to the barons of Lichtenstein- Lahm .

In 1818, Ludwig von Lichtenstein initiated the renovation of the castle. In 1831 he sold the entire manor to the treasurer Heinrich August Bernhard von Pawel-Rammingen, who in 1835 had the eastern shield wall, the gate and the drawbridge demolished . In addition, the eastern moat was leveled for open access to a newly created park. The castle tower was dismantled and given a crenellated wreath in the neo-Gothic style . From 1839 to 1920 the castle was owned by the Counts of Ortenburg - Tambach .

In 1961 the Salb family from Seßlach acquired the castle, which is now partially in ruins, and had it renovated over the following decades. The Jägerhaus has been used as a restaurant since the 1960s. In addition, there is a gallery at Geiersberg Castle with pictures of former Seßlach knight families. In 1970 Geiersberg Castle had 30 residents.

Building description

The palace complex was once surrounded by a second wall and a deep moat. Today it consists of a two-storey main building, a sandstone block with a hipped roof from the 17th to 19th centuries. The square stair tower built around 1620 has a sandstone spiral staircase, crenellated wreath, balcony and portal. The core of the tower is the former keep on the ground floor . The southern Jägerhaus, a two-story hipped roof building from 1541, is a simple rectangular building with two floors and an old beamed ceiling. A stone tablet on the Jägerhaus shows a triple alliance coat of arms from those of Lichtenstein, von Pappenheim and von Stiebar . A curved, late medieval shield wall connects the two buildings. In the corner between the shield wall and the main building there is a 39 meter deep cistern .

To the northeast of the main building is the utility building, an elongated two-story hipped roof building from 1728/32 and to the east is a single-story barn with a half-hipped roof from the first half of the 18th century.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Geiersberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Castle Geiersberg in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on March 28, 2020.
2. ^ ^{A b} Dorothea Fastnacht: Staffelstein. Former district of Staffelstein (= historical book of place names of Bavaria. Upper Franconia. Vol. 5). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7696-6861-2 , p. 412.
3. ^ Walter Schneier: The Coburg country. 2nd Edition. District Office, Coburg 1990, p. 223.
4. ^ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria . Issue 335 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1973, DNB  740801384 , p. 153 ( digitized version ).
5. ^ Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown. Tape. 1st 3rd edition. Druck- und Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse GmbH, Coburg 1974, pp. 129-131.

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 7 ″  N , 10 ° 50 ′ 45 ″  E