Sandsee Castle

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Sand lake
Market Pleinfeld
Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 56 ″  N , 11 ° 1 ′ 17 ″  E
Height : 454 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 4th
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 91785
Area code : 09144
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Sandsee Castle, seen from the Großer Brombachsee in the west

The round fortress Sandsee Castle is a district of the Middle Franconian market Pleinfeld in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . It is located near Mischelbach at 455  m above sea level. NHN high vineyard and is laid out as a stronghold .

history

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Castle wall of the castle
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Castle tower


The castle was probably built in the 12th century by the Lords of Hirschberg . In 1278 a Rüdiger von Dietenhofen was named as administrator of Sandsee Castle. Count Gebhard von Hirschberg sold the castle to the Hochstift Eichstätt in 1302 . The complex served the Eichstätter (prince) bishops as an official and hunting palace.

The castle was destroyed in 1462 during the war between Duke Ludwig of Bavaria and Margrave Achilles von Ansbach . Bishop Wilhelm von Reichenau had the damage caused by the Margrave War repaired in 1467, as evidenced by a coat of arms on the west wing. Bishop Martin von Schaumburg had repairs carried out on the old palace in 1572 . The Wehrerker was added in 1621. During the Thirty Years War (1618 to 1648) parts of the castle were burned down in 1632 and 1636 respectively.

Around 1660 the castle was rebuilt under Prince-Bishop Marquard Schenk von Castell . The roof of the keep had to be replaced after a lightning strike in 1782. Due to the secularization , the castle fell to Bavaria in 1815 and in the same year the Bavarian King Max I Joseph gave the castle together with the Ellingen throne to his general Carl Philipp Prince von Wrede in appreciation of his services . A palace chapel was built into the lower floors of the west wing in 1902 and was consecrated on July 18, 1903. From 1941, Sandsee Castle was used as a storage depot for the Nuremberg State Archives . From 1950 to 1955 it was a diocesan youth center of the Eichstätt diocese .

Before the municipal reform, a district of Mischelbach, Sandsee was incorporated into Pleinfeld on July 1, 1972 together with its main town.

present

Today the castle is inhabited by Prince Carl Friedrich von Wrede (* 1942) and his wife Katharina Fürstin von Wrede (* November 10, 1945). It also houses the Nova Silesia art workshop by Katharina von Wrede.

literature

  • Konrad Spindler (edit.): Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Volume 15: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district - monuments and sites . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8062-0504-3 .
  • Ruth Bach-Damaskinos: Palaces and castles in Middle Franconia . A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Central Franconian independent cities and districts. Hofmann, Nürnberg 1993, ISBN 3-87191-186-0 , p. 114-115 .
  • Ursula Pfistermeister: Well-defended Franconia - Volume 1: Castles, fortified churches, city walls around Nuremberg . Hans Carl Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-418-00384-2 , pp. 105-106.
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition, Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , pp. 528-529.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Sandsee  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Xaver Buchner : The Diocese of Eichstätt, historical-statistical description, based on the literature, the registry of the Episcopal Ordinariate Eichstätt and the parish reports , Vol .: 2, Eichstätt, (1938), p. 395.
  2. ↑ Pleinfeld. In: Political classification. Association for computer genealogy e. V., accessed on March 29, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Ellinger Fürstin celebrated her 70th birthday. In: nordbayern.de. November 16, 2015, accessed November 17, 2015 .