Kunreuth Castle

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Kunreuth Castle from a bird's eye view (2018)
Kunreuth Palace, south wing, December 2010
Coat of arms of the Lords of Egloffstein

The Kunreuth Castle is located on the northwestern outskirts of the village of the same name. The community of Kunreuth is a member of the Gosberg administrative community in the Forchheim district, Upper Franconia administrative region in Bavaria .

history

The place Kunreuth is said to have been mentioned in the founding book of St. Jacob's monastery in Bamberg from 1109. The Lords of Kunreuth were first mentioned in a document in 1308. It is unclear whether a castle already existed at that time .

The first documented mention of a castle dates from 1409. At that time, it was owned by the Lords of Egloffstein as a Bamberg fief .

In 1420 the castle was conquered and plundered in a feud between Margrave Friedrich I of Brandenburg and Duke Ludwig VII of Bavaria-Ingolstadt .

The castle was destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525. The reconstruction by the Lords of Egloffstein took place immediately. In 1553 the castle was destroyed again in the Second Margrave War by the Margrave Albrecht Alcibiades . The castle's crew was hung from the trees around the castle, despite the assurance of a free exit.

From 1558 the plant was now as Ganerbenburg composed of egloffsteinischen overall gender closed like again. The defensive character was largely retained.

During the Thirty Years' War , the castle suffered severe damage from frequent billeting.

The damage was repaired over time. The castle is still owned by the Counts and Barons von and zu Egloffstein, who used it as a family archive for a time.

Building description

The former moated castle - the trenches were partially drained in 1827 - has a rectangular floor plan. It consists primarily of a west and a south wing. In the south wing, the oldest components are likely to go back to the 14th century. The west wing received its present form mainly between 1611 and 1613. The gate system on the east side of the castle was built in 1624. In 1746 the drawbridge was replaced by a stone bridge. On the north side there is a wall with supporting pillars. The so-called rear bower was located there until it was destroyed in the Second Margrave War.

In the forecourt of the castle, a memorial commemorates the first Count of Egloffstein, Count Albrecht Dietrich Gottfried von Egloffstein .

  • East side (1998)

  • Courtyard with south wing (1998)

  • Round tower on the southwest corner (1998)

literature

  • Kai Kellermann: Stately gardens in Franconian Switzerland - a search for traces . Verlag Palm & Enke, Erlangen / Jena 2008, ISBN 978-3-7896-0683-0 , pp. 130-137.
  • Joachim Zeune : Kunreuth, District Forchheim: Castle . In: Rainer Hofmann (edit.): Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany. Volume 20: Franconian Switzerland . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0586-8 , pp. 195-196.
  • Hellmut Kunstmann : The castles of south-western Franconian Switzerland . 2nd Edition. Commission publisher Degener & Co, Neustadt an der Aisch 1990, pp. 177-189.
  • Toni Eckert, Susanne Fischer, Renate Freitag, Rainer Hofmann, Walter Thousand Pounds: The Castles of Franconian Switzerland - A cultural guide . Gürtler Druck, Forchheim 1997, ISBN 3-9803276-5-5 , pp. 88-92.
  • Ursula Pfistermeister : Defensive Franconia. Volume 3: Castles, fortified churches, city walls around Bamberg, Bayreuth and Coburg . Hans Carl Verlag, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-418-00387-7 , pp. 80-81.
  • Hans-Michael Körner , Alois Schmid (ed.), Martin Ott: Handbook of historical sites . Volume 7: Bavaria II. Volume 2: Franconia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 325). Kröner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-520-32501-2 , pp. 291-292.
  • Albrecht von und zu Egloffstein: Castles and palaces in Upper Franconia: A manual by Albrecht Graf von and zu Egloffstein . 1st edition. Weidlich Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-426-04406-4 , pp. 213-225.

Web links

  • Kunreuth Castle on the homepage of the House of Bavarian History (plans, history, building history, building stock)

Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 59.8 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 26.3 ″  E