Neuendettelsau Castle

Neuendettelsau Castle
Creation time :	First mentioned in 1298
Castle type :	Moated castle
Conservation status:	receive
Place:	Neuendettelsau
Geographical location	49 ° 17 '7.3 "  N , 10 ° 47' 16.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '7.3 "  N , 10 ° 47' 16.6"  E
Height:	439  m above sea level NHN

Neuendettelsau Castle, south side

Tithe barn

The Neuendettelsau Castle is a Grade II listed building in Neuendettelsau . It's house number 30 on the main street.

History

Presumably it is a defense system from the Staufer period (around 1200), which is indicated by the humpback stone blocks in the cellar of Eyb's Castle. Originally the castle belonged to the Lords of Vestenberg , from 1350 to 1517 to the Lords of Seckendorff , and from 1518 to the Lords of Eyb .

The manor Neuendettelsau belonged to the knight canton of Altmühl . It exercised the high court over Neuendettelsau to a limited extent. If necessary, it had to be delivered to the Brandenburg-Ansbach caste and city bailiff's office in Windsbach . It ruled the village and community only over Neuendettelsau. At the end of the 18th century it had the manorial rule over 4 properties in Bernhardswinden , 69 properties in Neuendettelsau and 2 properties in Kaltengreuth . Under the Prussian administration of the Principality of Ansbach (1797-1806) the manor Neuendettelsau was converted into a patrimonial court . With the incorporation of the Principality of Ansbach into the newly founded Kingdom of Bavaria and the associated administrative reforms, these patrimonial courts were initially abolished. The Neuendettelsau subjects were subordinated to the Heilsbronn Regional Court in terms of administration and jurisdiction . The second parish edict (1818) made it possible to apply for patrimonial courts. This was done by Freiherr Friedrich Carl von Eyb on October 4, 1819. On October 31, 1819, the formation of a 2nd class patrimonial court was approved: The lower court held over 81 properties (Neuendettelsau: 75, Bernhardswinden: 4, Kaltengreuth: 2 ). On October 1, 1848, the patrimonial courts in Bavaria were dissolved. Until 1945 the lords of the castle were authorized to appoint the pastor of the village church .

Building history

After a fire, the castle was rebuilt by the von Seckendorff barons. A thorough renovation probably took place around 1700. A coat of arms relief on the west side of the eastern wing of Eichstätter Bishop Johann Martin von Eyb († 1701) reminds of this . The bridge in front of the south wing was built in 1758. An extension and renovation took place in 1922/27.

Building description

The two-storey moated castle is a horseshoe-shaped gable roof with a largely preserved moat. The west wing is modern, the south wing was probably built around 1700, the masonry of the east wing contains masonry from the pre-baroque complex. As a result of its medieval embankment and substructure wall made of sandstone blocks and its northern end wall, which is only inner wall thick, the east wing originally extended approximately twice to the north. Today to the north modern renewed arbor with baluster parapet and external staircase. On the courtyard sides of the east and south wings there are drilled portals with straight lintels and roofs, some with arched skylights. On the ground floor of the north wing there is a simple chapel with a frame stucco ceiling. The gate passage is in front of the bridge in the south wing. The arched south portal is built from ashlar and has an open segment gable and Eyb's coat of arms. In the large interior room there is a cast iron stove with a clay top, Eyb'schem and Brandenburg coat of arms, marked 1723. The bridge is made of ashlar stones with a brick arch and parapets, inscription on the east side, marked 1758. The garden gate from the 18th century is in three parts with sandstone posts in joint cut and with ball attachments.

The associated former tithe barn , designated 1543, is a two-storey building with a gable roof and dormers , arched portals and rectangular windows with partly grooved walls.

literature

• Address manual for the Rezat district of the Kingdom of Baiern . Johann Baptist Reindl, Bamberg 1814, p. 57 ( digitized version ).
• Address and statistical handbook for the Rezatkreis in the Kingdom of Baiern . Buchdruckerei Chancellery, Ansbach 1820, p. 101 ( digitized version ).
• Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 128-129 .
• Matthias Honold; Hans Rößler (Hrsg.): 700 years Neuendettelsau: Festschrift for the 700th anniversary 1298/1998; historical contributions to the local history and house chronicle of Neuendettelsau . Neuendettelsau 1998, ISBN 3-00-002564-2 .
• Manfred Jehle: Ansbach: the margravial chief offices Ansbach, Colmberg-Leutershausen, Windsbach, the Nuremberg nursing office Lichtenau and the Deutschordensamt (Wolframs-) Eschenbach (=  historical atlas of Bavaria, part Franconia . I, 35). tape 1 . Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7696-6856-8 , p. 475-483 .
• Manfred Keßler: The knight's seat in Dettelsau in the high and late Middle Ages . (Dissertation). Erlangen 2009, DNB  998940933 ( PDF; 11.1 MB ).
• Hans Rößler (Ed.): Under thatched and tile roofs. From the Neuendettelsau story . Freimund, Neuendettelsau 1982, ISBN 3-7726-0110-3 .

Web link

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ H. Rößler: Under straw and tile roofs , p. 17f.
2. ↑ M. Jehle, Vol. 2, p. 822.
3. ↑ Announcements of the Royal. District authorities (regarding the formation of the Neuendettelsau Patrimonial Court) . In: Royal Bavarian intelligence sheet for the Rezat district . XLVI. Piece, November 17, 1819, col. 1729 ( digitized version ).
4. ↑ M. Jehle, Vol. 1, p. 956.
5. ^ GP Fehring, p. 128.
6. ↑ GP Fehring, p. 128f.