Scherneck Castle (Untersiemau)

Scherneck Castle

The Scherneck castle stands in Scherneck , a district of Upper Franconia community Untersiemau in Coburg .

Geographical location

Scherneck Castle is located about seven kilometers south of Coburg on a rocky slope on the Itz at an altitude of 325 meters on Hauptstraße 2. The district road CO 25, which leads from Untersiemau to Seßlach , runs through the village . The main town of Untersiemau is about three kilometers east of Scherneck.

history

In the place Schernekke , as Scherneck was called in the Middle Ages , there was a noble residence in a princely Saxon fief by the middle of the 14th century , which was owned by the Lords of Burghausen from Münnerstadt in the 16th century . In 1580 Philipp von Lichtenstein zu Wiesen acquired the property. In 1621 it passed to Wilhelm von Streitberg zu Ahorn and in 1645 to the current Chancellor Johann Jacob Drach in Coburg. The Scherneck estate was sold in 1659 to Johann Christian Ameling, who was the lord of the manor and lord of the manor in Meeder , whose children sold the manor at the same time as the Ziegelsdorf Palace in 1682 to Baron Hans Heymerian Eusebius von Völlerndorff and Waradein, who had immigrated from Austria . The baron died four years later. His widow sold the Scherneck castle and estate in 1700 to Georg Christoph von Merklin, who was based in Scheuerfeld .

The property changed hands thirteen times in the following 200 years, including those of Hendrich (1714–1773) from Ahorn , those of Imhoff (1773–1800) from Hohenstein Castle and the Greiner family (1800–1825). From 1825 Otto Freiherr von Lichtenberg took over the property. He died in 1838 and the feudal guardianship of the underage children was transferred to the widow's brother-in-law, Captain Otto von Steinau, who lived in Weißenbrunn Palace in front of the forest . After the eldest of the children died by suicide in August 1847, the siblings of the dead brother had the formerly considerable property sold in two separate auctions in 1859/1860. The castle with outbuildings, a park and some garden and meadow land came to Heinrich and Georg Gutgesell from Scherneck in 1861. After their death, Theodor and Emil Oswald acquired the castle in 1908. Their descendants became the owners of the property.

description

The castle, as it has been since the last quarter of the 18th century, is a simple sandstone block building with three floors and a mansard roof . The predecessor building, which was 100 to 200 years older, was described in 1710 as being in disrepair , i.e. the building fabric could not be saved. The new building was designed by the Coburg landscape director Moritz Carl Freiherr von Imhoff after he had bought the ailing mansion in 1773. The only decoration of the building, which is divided into five window axes on the street side, is the central entrance portal with a round arch and a curved ledge above it. Four dormers protrude from the roof at the front and rear , of which the two middle ones have high gable roofs, the two outer ones with lower round roofs.

literature

• Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown. Tape. 1st 3rd edition. Neue Presse GmbH printing and publishing company, Coburg 1974.
• Richard Teufel : Architectural and art monuments in the district of Coburg. Riemann, Coburg 1956.
• Dieter Zöberlein: The von Streitberg, story of a Franconian noble family , self-published, Burggrub 2018, part 2, pp. 358–359.

Web links

Commons : Scherneck Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown. Tape. 1st 3rd edition. 1974, p. 110.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown. Tape. 1st 3rd edition. 1974, p. 111.

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 52.2 ″  N , 10 ° 57 ′ 8.6 ″  E