Steinenhausen Castle

View of Steinenhausen Castle, entrance side

Steinenhausen Castle is a baroque palace complex near Melkendorf , a district of Kulmbach in Upper Franconia . The imposing building was owned by a line of the Barons von Guttenberg for centuries . It stands directly at the confluence of the Red and White Mains . The Main begins at the Mainz confluence behind the castle.

history

In 1439, Rüdiger Henlein and his brothers Ulrich and Jörg were enfeoffed with the Steinenhausen castle stables by Margrave Friedrich von Brandenburg-Kulmbach . Probably Bernhard von Guttenberg zum Steinenhaus began building and expanding the castle in 1481:

“The next clue can be found on an alliance coat of arms (Guttenberg / Fuchs von Schweinshaupten) above the right entrance door in the castle. The accompanying inscription says that Moritz von Guttenberg had the coat of arms put up in 1512 when he started building a new bower ... in the castle ”.

The brothers of Moritz von Guttenberg, "one of the most important and dazzling figures ... of the Guttenberg aristocratic family", Heinrich IV and Bernhard, had helped to rebuild the castle.

The baronial Guttenberg family sold the castle to the Bavarian farmers' settlement in 1935 . The archive and inventory were transferred to Schloss Kirchlauter in the Haßberge Mountains. From 1940 to 1945 an NSV kindergarten teacher seminar was housed in the castle . From 1945 the building was used briefly as a maternity facility and then for many years as a retirement home.

Todays use

In 1987 the castle became state property. The Kulmbach field service of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment is located there . Extensive interior and exterior renovations have a major impact on the appearance of the baroque palace.

literature

• 20 years LfU in Kulmbach: Steinenhausen Castle . Bavarian State Office for the Environment, Augsburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-936385-40-3 .
• August Gebeßler : City and district of Kulmbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 3 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451450973 , p. 86-87 .
• Hellmut Kunstmann : The ring of castles around Wernstein in the Obermaing area . Commission publisher Degener & Co, Neustadt an der Aisch 1978, ISBN 3-7686-4083-3 , pp. 166-201.
• Klaus Rupprecht: An overview of the history of Steinenhausen Castle. A seat of imperial knighthood in princely territory . In: Colloquium Historicum Wirsbergense (ed.): Geschichte am Obermain 22, 1999/2000, pp. 25–40.

Web links

• Outdoor facilities of the Kulmbach office of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rupprecht 1999/2000, p. 27
2. ↑ Rupprecht 1999/2000, p. 28

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 13.8 ″  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 2.5 ″  E