Plankenfels Castle

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Plankenfels Castle

The Plankenfels Castle stands on a dolomite rock on the left side of the valley of the upper Wiesent on the western edge of the village Plankenfels in the district of Bayreuth , administrative region Upper Franconia . Two main buildings of the castle are connected by an intermediate building with a gable roof. The castle is privately owned and cannot be visited.

history

The Lords of Plankenfels were first mentioned in a document with Konrad von Plankenfels in 1255. It can be assumed that at that time there was already a castle on the site of the palace.

The construction of the castle must be seen in connection with the older Plankenstein castle located nearby . Plankenstein Castle, probably the first castle of this noble family, was owned by the Bishop of Bamberg as early as 1260 . How the Plankenstein Castle came to the Bishop of Bamberg is unclear. Today there is only a ruinous remnant of it. As a replacement for the headquarters, the Plankenfels Castle was apparently built.

Plankenfels Castle was first mentioned in documents in 1403, when it was owned by Jörg von Plankenfels as a fiefdom of the Burgraves of Nuremberg .

With the extinction of the Lords of Plankenfels around 1486, the castle seems to have come to the Lords of Wichsenstein as a fief. The Lords of Wichsenstein were first mentioned as owners of the castle in 1505. During the Peasants' War in 1525, the castle was almost completely destroyed. In 1549 Ernst von Wichsenstein sold the remaining buildings to Ernst von Rüssenbach. The reconstruction was completed in 1554/1556 under the rulers of Rüssenbach.

After the Lords of Rüssenbach died out, the castle came to Hans Gilg von Laineck as a fiefdom in 1573 . Since 1629 the lords of Lüschwitz zu Glashütten owned the castle. Gerhard Christoph von Lüschwitz sold the manor with the castle - now referred to as a manor - in 1649 to the lords of Schlammersdorf . The lords of Schlammersdorf were enfeoffed with the rule in 1656. In 1786, Plankenfels became free property of the von Schlammersdorf lords. In the same year the manor was bought by Baroness Johanna Sophia Christine von Egloffstein . The facility has been in civil ownership since 1881.

  • North wing

  • South wing

  • Plankenfels Castle-20070608-RM-181035.jpg

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. 150-153.
  • Hellmut Kunstmann : The castles of eastern Franconian Switzerland . Commission publisher Ferdinand Schöningh, Würzburg 1965, pp. 147–160.
  • Gustav Voit, Walter Rüfer: A castle tour through Franconian Switzerland - In the footsteps of the draftsman AF Thomas Ostertag. 2nd Edition. Verlag Palm & Enke, Erlangen 1991, ISBN 3-7896-0064-4 , pp. 138-141.
  • Toni Eckert, Susanne Fischer, Renate Freitag, Rainer Hofmann, Walter Thousand Pounds: The Castles of Franconian Switzerland - A cultural guide . Gürtler Druck, Forchheim approx. 1997, ISBN 3-9803276-5-5 , pp. 111-114.

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '3.8 "  N , 11 ° 19' 57.9"  E