Scheuerfeld Castle

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The former Scheuerfeld Castle in the Coburg district of Scheuerfeld in Upper Franconia was built in its current form in the 16th century and has been the Protestant pastor's office since 1893. The origin of the complex comes from the Thuringian-Franconian land grabbing of the 5th and 6th centuries. The building is a historical monument.

Geographical location

Scheuerfeld Castle is in the center of Scheuerfeld, a western part of Coburg since 1872, at Nicolaus-Zech-Straße 20. A still recognizable moat surrounds the area, which is still called the old building today.

history

The historian Erich Meißner has identified ten former hillside courtyards from the 5th and 6th centuries in the Scheuerfelder Flur, which also included the area around Scheuerfeld Castle.

It cannot be proven whether Scheuerfeld Castle was already a knightly residence at the turn of the 12th century, as is otherwise the case in the Coburg area. The abbot of Saalfeld Siboto, who was in office at the time, donated the chapel, the predecessor of today's parish church in Scheuerfeld, but had its seat in Ahorn Castle . In the following four centuries there were no references to Scheuerfeld Castle or Schloss Scheuerfeld.

Around 1590 Nicolaus Zech, the rent master and councilor of the Coburg Duke Johann Casimir , bought Scheuerfeld and built the modest castle and a number of surrounding buildings. In 1598, Duke Casimir donated the nearby Eichhof Palace to him out of gratitude for the restoration of his finances. In 1603 Zech fell out of favor, was imprisoned in the Veste Coburg and died four years later.

Nicolaus Zech's underage children, Helena and Markus, inherited both properties, Helena Schloss Scheuerfeld and Markus Schloss Eichhof. Helena married Dr. jur. Johann Christian von Merklin . She died in 1617 and Merklin bought Eichhof Castle in 1622. After Merklin's death, the entire inheritance was shared among his sons. The younger son received the Eichhof and the older Scheuerfeld Castle. His descendants lived in the castle until the 19th century, although it had in the meantime returned to princely ownership. In 1893 it was given to the community to establish a parish office, which it still is today. A plaque on the front of the building reminds of the donor.

investment

The castle, once built as a manor or manor, has a cellar built from a large round-arched barrel, which points to the construction around 1590. A 25-meter-long underground corridor that was only discovered in the 1970s extends from it. It is interpreted as a secret escape route for times of war, as the castle was not set up for defense.

The cubic, two-story, six-axis building supports a half-timbered upper floor clad with hand-cut slate panels above a stone ground floor. The hipped roof with gable on the front dates from the beginning of the 18th century. The thick-walled ground floor can be assigned to the earlier building era around 1590.

Originally, a sweeping sandstone staircase to the portal ran perpendicular to the facade. It was replaced in the 20th century by a concrete staircase across the house.

The stable building behind the castle and the small park-like garden date from the time of the manor created by Nicolaus Zech.

literature

  • Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown . Druck- und Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse, Coburg, 1974, pages 51–52
  • Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Lipp, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X , ( Monuments in Bavaria 4/48).

proof

  1. ^ Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Lipp, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X , ( Monuments in Bavaria 4/48)
  2. ↑ Dr. Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown . Druck- und Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse GmbH, Coburg, 1974, pages 51, paragraph 3
  3. ↑ Erich Meißner, senior teacher, research on hill farms in the Coburg region , Coburg city archive
  4. ↑ Dr. Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown . Druck- und Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse GmbH, Coburg, 1974, pages 51, paragraph 8
  5. ↑ Dr. Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown . Druck- und Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse GmbH, Coburg, 1974, pages 52
  6. ↑ Dr. Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown . Druck- und Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse GmbH, Coburg, 1974, pages 52 para. 1

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Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 17.8 ″  N , 10 ° 55 ′ 36.8 ″  E