Kirchlauter Castle

Kirchlauter Castle, view from the castle courtyard

The Castle Kirchlauter even Guttenberg'sches moated castle called the center of the village is Kirchlauter ( administrative community Ebelsbach ) in the district of Haßberge in Unterfranken . The angular baroque complex is in good condition and is inhabited.

history

In 1511 Moritz von Guttenberg received Kirchlauter as a fief from the Würzburg monastery . In the 16th century, the Lords of Guttenberg built the so-called Old Castle southwest of the later castle complex, which today serves as the administrator's house. From 1689, the Würzburg prince-bishop Johann Gottfried von Guttenberg began building the new moated castle, which was partially rebuilt in the 18th century. The barons von Guttenberg lived in the complex until 1968. Today the castle belongs to the Counts Stauffenberg , to whom it came from Countess Elisabeth, a born baroness von und zu Guttenberg. Towards the end of the Second World War , Kirchlauter was shot at by the Americans. The castle also suffered major damage, which was removed.

Building description

The two three-storey palace wings stand on a square base and are surrounded by a lined (masonry) moat. Access is provided by a two-bay sandstone bridge with a baluster parapet and brick pillars. The gables of the tile-covered gable roofs are closed off in the west and south by two-storey panels decorated with volutes and obelisks. The rest of the structure is kept simple. The profiled window frames, cornices and rusticated corner strips were left exposed to stone, the wall surfaces are plastered white. The portal is on the courtyard side of the east wing and is flanked by a pair of Ionic columns. Above it, two angel figures hold the sandstone coat of arms of the episcopal builder. The ancestral hall with its rich stucco decoration (around 1730) and numerous oil portraits has been preserved on the first floor of the east wing.

Heinrich Zimmer, a master from Antonio Petrini's circle, has been handed down as a builder and architect .

A walled park with some baroque garden figures and an orangery extends around the castle . To the southwest is the old castle in front of the main castle. The two-story building has a half-timbered upper floor with a corner bay window. The castle district is closed off by the farm buildings, the Guttenberg-Horneck marriage coat of arms (around 1720) is attached to the Schüttboden.

Schloss Kirchlauter is a venue for the concert series Music in Franconian Castles and Music Magic Franconia .

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literature

• The art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Volume 3: Administrative region of Lower Franconia & Aschaffenburg. = The art monuments of Lower Franconia & Aschaffenburg. Issue 15: Hans Karlinger : District Office Ebern. With a historical introduction by Hans Ring. Oldenbourg, Munich 1916 (Unchanged reprint. Ibid 1983, ISBN 3-486-50469-X ).
• 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. 48-49.

Web links

• Music in Franconian castles

Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 35 ″  N , 10 ° 43 ′ 4 ″  E