Oberlangenstadt Castle

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Oberlangstadt Castle in Küps-Oberlangstadt

The Castle Oberlangenstadt located in the district Oberlangenstadt the market Küps in Upper Franconian district of Kronach in Bavaria .

Geographical location

Oberlangenstadt lies in the middle of the extensive valley landscape of the central Rodach . The favorable location of the place on this river, which served as a transport route in the Middle Ages , established the establishment of a total of ten aristocratic residences in the area of ​​Markt Küps, to which Oberlangenstadt belongs. Nine of the ten properties still exist, some of them heavily modified, as ruins or ground memorials .

The Oberlangenstadt Castle, which is surrounded by an extensive park, is located on the southern edge of the community in Poststrasse, directly on the Rodach.

history

Oberlangenstadt was first mentioned in 1367 as a village owned by the barons of Redwitz . As in 1625, they sold their property in Nagel and Tüschnitz in 1691 in Oberlangenstadt to the barons of Künsberg . At that time there was only one agricultural farm in Oberlangenstadt. In 1718, Philipp Heinrich von Künsberg built the first small aristocratic residence near today's gardener's house.

Around 1760, Carl Dietrich von Künsberg began building an extensive park around the remote country estate. A small open-air theater was also set up in the park. However, the damp subsoil of the floodplain impaired the stability of the aristocratic residence in the long run, so that it had to be demolished in 1805. In 1861 Karl von Künsberg had the castle garden extended in the English style and between 1862 and 1864, Baron Otokar August von Künsberg, who was only 21 years old and became prosperous through marriage, built today's castle in Tudor style , unique in size and furnishings in Upper Franconia.

At the same time as the castle, new garages and stables in the style of historicism were built nearby . During the Second World War , the entire property was confiscated. Under the code name "Institute for Fuels and Lubricants" one worked there on the development of nuclear weapons .

construction

Garden side (east front)

The plans for the construction of the palace come from Professor Ludwig Volz , court architect of the Bavarian kings Maximilian II. And Ludwig II. The rectangular main building with its three storeys is built on posts because of the damp ground. It is flanked by four octagonal corner towers with parapets with decorative turrets as the upper ends . A massive three-axis central projection protrudes from the eastern front, with a fourth floor above the corner towers. The risalit has a crenellated wreath with four corner turrets and looks like a fifth tower. In it is the main entrance with three arched arcades , to which a wide flight of stairs leads up. Only later was another 36 meter high tower added to the castle on the northern narrow side. This octagonal, slender “keep” is connected to the main building by a two-storey bridge that spans a passage to the garden side.

Epitaph from 1739

The exterior design of the castle uses almost the entire design language of the Gothic . In addition to lintels made of curtain, stitch and keel arches and as a division, there are tracery and tracery panels. On the garden side, the center is emphasized by a portico , under which the rear entrance is hidden, to which a two-flight flight of stairs leads. The pillars of the portico support a balcony, the parapets of which, like the windows, are filled with tracery. An epitaph from 1739 is attached to the tower wall under the bridge arch between the main building and the high tower . The relief of Colonel Dietrich Sigmund von Künsberg is shown. This grave slab is the only older piece on the new building, which was completed in 1864.

Entry page

This year is written in large letters above the main portal on the east side, through which one reaches the vestibule on the ground floor. The design and furnishings of the rooms lead back to a time long past when the castle was built. The furnishings of the salon on the first floor are reminiscent of the style of Napoleon III. , other rooms, albeit not as splendid, to the castles of Ludwig II. The Moorish dining room in the north-western corner tower is particularly original and imitates the decorations of the Alhambra in Granada down to the smallest detail. Also noteworthy are the artfully designed parquet floors made from a wide variety of woods .

park

Carl Dietrich von Künsberg worked as a garden planner for the Bamberg Monastery . He was already in charge of the gardens at Seehof Castle when he began to lay out the Oberlangenstadt castle park in the French Baroque style in 1760 . For this he included a large gravel bank washed ashore by the Rodach. On the edge of the park he had the small open-air theater that still exists today, in which comedies were performed. The conversion of the baroque park into an English landscape garden in 1861 was particularly successful through the diversion of an old mill ditch, which then led in turns through the area and also fed a castle pond. Many of the old trees from the original Rodach floodplain were also included in the redesign.

Others

literature

  • Tilmann Breuer: Bavarian art monuments, district of Kronach. Volume XIX, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1964, DNB 450619354 .
  • Albert Elstner: The von Künsberg: the story of a Franconian. Noble family. In: Home and History. Anniversary gift d. Franconian Forest Association. Verlag Heim, Darmstadt 1972, OCLC 631937932 , pp. 247-334.
  • Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown, 2nd volume . Druck- und Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse GmbH, Coburg 1978, DNB 780410505 , pp. 147-150.
  • Heinrich Pöhlmann: History of the market town Küps. HO Schulze, Lichtenfels around 1908, DNB 573875308 .
  • Hans Schleicher: The history of the market Küps. De la Porte, Küps 1996, ISBN 3-932416-00-7 .
  • Albrecht von und zu Egloffstein: Palaces and castles in Upper Franconia: a manual. 1st edition. Verlag Wolfgang Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-426-04406-4 , pp. 27-31.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown. Volume 2, Druck- und Verlagsanstalt Neue PRESSE, Coburg 1978, pp. 141–145.
  2. ↑ Bavarian Office for the Preservation of Monuments: Architectural and ground monuments in Küps (PDF; 145 kB)
  3. ^ Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown. Volume 2, Neue PRESSE printing and publishing company, Coburg 1978, p. 147.
  4. ↑ a b Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown. Volume 2, Neue PRESSE printing and publishing company, Coburg 1978, p. 148.
  5. ↑ a b Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown. Volume 2, Neue PRESSE printing and publishing company, Coburg 1978, p. 149.
  6. ^ Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown. Volume 2, Neue PRESSE printing and publishing company, Coburg 1978, p. 150.

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 11.2 "  N , 11 ° 15 ′ 26"  E