Kreuth Castle

Castle building (18th century) with a mansard roof

The Kreuth castle is located on a roughly 455  m above sea level. NN lying hill northwest of the Middle Franconian town of Heideck in Bavaria.

history

The castle goes back to the Nuremberg patrician Bernhard Usefulel von Sündersbühl and his wife Edeltraut Harsdörfer . Heideck belonged to the Duchy of Palatinate-Neuburg and was pledged to the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg for several decades by the sovereign Ottheinrich , later Elector of the Palatinate . Usefulel was the keeper of the imperial city and on December 6, 1570 applied to the magistrate in Heideck to be allowed to build an estate on the properties of the Upper and Lower Kreuth (city chronicle of Sebastian Oefelin). Both founders died in Kreuth and were buried in the parish church of St. John the Baptist in Heideck (grave slabs, heavily ceded, preserved).

The son-in-law Julius Grätz (Gretz) von Wapge received noblemen's freedom and the right to be a resident of the estate. From then on, the Hofmark was no longer subordinate to the municipality of Heideck, but directly to the landscape commissioner in the residential city of Neuburg an der Donau .

In 1878 the house of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Spielberg acquired the castle and expanded the baroque building stock (coat of arms with a prince's hat on the castle gate). Six princes or princesses of the princely family were born here.

As a result of the Burden Equalization Act , the house sold the castle to Elisabeth Wagenführ from Thuringia and her husband August Hetzel, Honorary Consul of Panama . The manor house remained with the Hetzel family, whose descendants sold it on at the end of the 20th century; In 1979 a fire destroyed the west and north wings. In 1968 Elisabeth and Werner Hohmann acquired the castle's estate. The Hohmann couple and their children Günther Hohmann and Inge, married Schaal, built a riding facility and a hotel in the complex.

Building description

The castle consists of a two-storey building with a mansard roof from the second half of the 18th century, and a two-sided wing building to the north. This building, which dates back to 1881, is two-story and covered with a mansard roof, with a round tower attached to its west side. These two buildings are grouped around a courtyard with several outbuildings. In the south of the complex was the gate tower within the courtyard wall, this is a plastered building with a hipped roof , a small gable and a roof turret . The passage can be locked through a wrought iron gate. The gate tower dates from the second half of the 18th century and is marked with the year 1878. A single-row avenue that dates from around 1800 leads to the palace complex .

literature

• Ruth Bach-Damaskinos, Jürgen Schnabel, Sabine Kothes: Palaces and castles in Middle Franconia - A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Central Franconian independent cities and districts . Hofmann Verlag, Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 3-87191-186-0 , p. 180.

Individual evidence

1. ^ [1] Geneall.net
2. ↑ Source description: List of monuments for Heideck (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 152 kB)

Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 20.7 ″  N , 11 ° 7 ′ 6.8 ″  E