Raitenbuch Castle (Raitenbuch)

The Raitenbuch Palace is a palace in Raitenbuch , a municipality in the Middle Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-163-1 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian Monument List. The remains of the medieval castle stable are also designated as a ground monument (No. D-5-7032-0105). The postal address is Hauptstraße 8.

The castle is located on the outskirts of the town west of the town center on the town's main street at an altitude of 561 meters above  sea ​​level . The two-storey, irregular gable roof and half-hip roof construction has a high storage floor . The castle was rebuilt in the second half of the 15th century. A fortified coat of arms indicates the year 1769. Parts of the moat fortifications and the castle wall with the remains of a gate, each from the second half of the 15th century, have been preserved.

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. 549-550 .

Web links

• Location of the castle in the Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( information )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Former hunting lodge of the Prince-Bishops of Eichstätt, Weiherhausanlage, residential buildings , Bavarian Monument List, Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (pdf, accessed on September 24, 2016)
2. ↑ Topographic maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )

Coordinates: 49 ° 0 '54.3 "  N , 11 ° 7' 16.6"  E