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Aerial view of the castle
The northern gatehouse

Möhren Castle is a medieval hunting lodge, the history of which goes back to the 12th century. The castle is privately owned. The current owners live in the castle and have furnished four holiday apartments.

Castle property

The castle estate covers 4.5 hectares. The cultural heritage has a hunting castle with a round tower, a south and north tower and a former manor house (now a house) with an adjoining castle ranch. Some parts of the outbuildings date from the Jurassic period. The foundations of the castle date back to 1137. Parts of them are visible in the old escape route of the castle. The entire castle, manor house, castle towers and outbuildings were renovated in the 18th century.

Castle towers

The property has three towers. A castle tower and a north and south tower. The south tower from 1300 is the old entrance gate with the Pappenheim coat of arms. The north and south towers can be rented, the castle tower can only be viewed during a guided tour of the castle.

Swiss house and castle ranch

On the property there is a single-family house 'the Swiss house'. The Swiss lived here in the 15th century. A Swiss was someone who exercised a special profession outside of his country's borders. Next to the Schweizerhaus is the old sheepfold / castle ranch with old horse stables and an abandoned smithy. The castle ranch still has the original wooden support structure from the 18th century.

Village location

The Castle carrot is a palace in carrots , a district of Treuchtlingen in the Middle Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-173-106 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. The underground parts of the medieval predecessor facility are also designated as a ground monument (No. D-5-7031-0080). The postal address is Schloßstraße 50 and 52.

The palace is located on the outskirts of the town above the center of the old town and not far from the parish church of the Assumption of Mary at an altitude of 470 meters above  sea ​​level . The remains of a hilltop castle built in the 13th century were demolished in 1711 and today's castle was built by the marshals von Pappenheim . It was historicized in 1880. Remains of the fortifications have been preserved. The east terrace dates from the 18th century, the north and south gatehouses both date from the 17th and 18th centuries. Century. An attached caretaker's house with an economic building was built in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The castle driveway dates from the 18th century.

location

Möhren Castle is located in southern Germany, Bavaria , Middle Franconia , the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district , about 60 km south of Nuremberg and 120 km above Munich . The meteorite impact in Nördlingen 15 million years ago created a hilly landscape that we call today's Altmühltal Nature Park . Möhren Castle is located in the heart of the Altmühltal and on the Romantic Road .

history

The history of the castle begins in the year 1137. The former knight's castle Möhren, which borders on the principality of Ansbach , belongs to the royal estate of Monheim . The order of knights is part of the Duchy of Nuremberg. The first owners are the nobles Otto and Heinrich Mern.

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 , p. 631-632 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Former Fugger-Nordendorfsches then Pappenheimsches Schloss , Bavarian Monument List, Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (pdf, accessed on 23 September 2016)
  2. ↑ Topographic maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )
  3. ↑ "Castle gentlemen" in Möhren for ten years . In: Treuchtlinger Kurier . Published online September 6, 2015. Accessed September 23, 2016.

Coordinates: 48 ° 56 '8.7 "  N , 10 ° 52' 13.6"  E