Greifenstein Castle (Lower Franconia)

Greifenstein Castle, northeast view

Alliance coat of arms of Rußwurm and Rüdt von Collenberg

The Schloss Greifenstein is located in the military training area of Hammelburg , just above the village abgesiedelten Bonnland in the district of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria . The castle can therefore only be visited during an open day of the Bundeswehr .

history

Greifenstein Castle was probably built by Philip III from 1558. built by Thüngen . A keystone with the year 1565 was found on one of the gables , which documents this construction period. In the course of a renovation at the end of the 1970s, no evidence of a previous building was found. In 1657 Greifenstein was sold to Major General Hans-Georg von Rußwurm . In 1726 Greifenstein was rebuilt in its current form. In 1732 the von Russwurm family died out and the von Gleichen took over the castle as imperial barons from Gleichen-Russwurm. From 1756 the margravial Bavarian officer and natural scientist Wilhelm Friedrich Freiherr von Gleichen, called von Rußwurm, lived with his family at the castle.

In 1793 Friedrich Schiller visited the palace with his wife Charlotte on his journey from Weimar to Stuttgart . In 1828 Schiller's youngest daughter, Emilie Heinrich Adalbert von Gleichen-Russwurm, married and lived on Greifenstein until her death in 1872. Her son Heinrich Ludwig , a German impressionist and professor at the Grand Ducal Art School in Weimar, lived and painted in Bonnland . In 1895, Schiller's great-grandson Alexander von Gleichen-Rußwurm , a former officer and well-known writer on cultural history, lived and worked on Greifenstein, who set up the Schiller Archive there.

Greifenstein was renovated in 1936. The Schiller Archive was moved to Marbach am Neckar and is now in the German Literature Archive . In 1938 Bonnland and its castle were relocated and became part of the Hammelburg military training area, which had existed since 1893. After the Second World War , displaced persons were housed in Greifenstein.

In 1982 Greifenstein was renovated. The castle is a listed building . The military training area will continue to be used, but Greifenstein Castle, unlike the village of Bonnland, is a restricted area for the training troops.

literature

• Anton Rahrbach, Jörg Schöffl, Otto Schramm: Palaces and castles in Lower Franconia - A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Lower Franconian independent cities and districts. Hofmann Verlag, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-87191-309-X , pp. 148-149.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Greifenstein (Bonnland)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Source: Finanzbauamt Bad Kissingen (ed.): Schloss Greifenstein. Brochure undated

Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 59.5 ″  N , 9 ° 52 ′ 4.2 ″  E