Oberschwappach Castle

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Oberschwappach Castle
Oberschwappach Castle

The Oberschwappach Castle is a baroque palace in Oberschwappach , a district on the northern edge of the Steigerwald commune in Knetzgau in the district of Haßberge in Bavaria .

Under Abbot Wilhelm I Sölner , the palace was built in the center of the village from 1733 to 1738 and clearly shows the architectural language of the Würzburg court architect Joseph Greissing , who apparently had already submitted plans many years before the start of construction, as can be proven by others under Abbot Sölner Ebracher Amtshöfe had done.

The castle served to manage the properties of the Cistercian monastery Ebrach in the vicinity , and it was also used for the summer residence of the Ebrach abbots . After the abolition of the Ebrach monastery in 1803 in the course of secularization , the last abbot of Ebrach, Eugen Montag , was ordered into exile at Oberschwappach Castle. He died there in 1811. As a result, the castle had different owners and was in a poor structural condition when it was acquired in 1985 by the municipality of Knetzgau. Today the castle houses a museum, a kindergarten and a restaurant. Concerts and cultural events take place in the hall of mirrors.

The museum includes a local history collection as well as sacred art, and the state rooms can also be visited (including the hall of mirrors and the palace chapel).

Every year at the end of July the Oberschwappach Wine Festival and at the end of November the Oberschwappach Christmas Market take place on the castle grounds.

literature

  • Johannes Mack: The builder and architect Joseph Greissing. Main Franconian Baroque before Balthasar Neumann. Dissertation. Saarbrücken 2007. (also in: Publications of the Society for Franconian History. 8th series: Sources and representations on Franconian art history. Volume 16, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86652-816-1 , pp. 685–686 and a.)
  • Johannes Mack: Joseph Greissing on his 350th birthday: 1664–2014. The current status of greissing research. In: Würzburg diocesan history sheets. Volume 77, Würzburg 2014, ISSN  0342-3093 , pp. 297-308.
  • Anton Rahrbach, Jörg Schöffl, Otto Schramm: Palaces and castles in Lower Franconia - A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Lower Franconian independent cities and districts . Hofmann Verlag, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-87191-309-X , pp. 52-53.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 58 '  N , 10 ° 29'  E