Stephansberg Castle

Drawing of Stephansberg Castle, 1848

Castle Stephan Berg was a castle in the hamlet Stephan Berg on the district of Klein Langheimer hamlet Haidt in the Lower Franconian district of Kitzingen . It is the namesake of the older or Stephansberger line of the princely house of Schwarzenberg .

history

The hamlet of Stephansberg today

Stephansberg is mentioned for the first time at the beginning of the 10th century. In 1243 a Stephansberg castle appears as the property of Apollonius the Elder. Ä. from Seinsheim . His son Hildebrand († 1386) is considered to be the progenitor of the Schwarzenberg family, since after him and his brother the lineage is divided into an older or Stephansberger line and a younger or Seinsheim line . This is what the later Imperial Councilor Erkinger VI called itself . von Seinsheim also "von Stephansberg". In 1502 Siegismund von Schwarzenberg zu Hohenlandsberg sold the estate to the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach . The margraves set up a so-called caste office here to manage the income from their free float in the Main Franconia region . However, the castle was burned down in 1525 during the German Peasants' War . The Brandenburg-Ansbach property was later sold by the senior official Löb Dessauer. Now four farmers from the surrounding area received the former farm estate and the agricultural property. At the beginning of the 19th century, the remains of the estate were leveled.

Burgstall Stephansberg

There are no more remains of the castle or palace today, but the castle stable is classified as a ground monument by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments . The castle presented itself as a stately building with a moat and a large castle courtyard. This was the seat of the Schwarzenberg, later margravial office of Stephansberg. The complex was probably already softened in the 17th century and was now only the seat of the so-called official farmers.

literature

FG: Haidt . In 1875–1985. 110 years of the Haidt-Stephansberg volunteer fire department. Holidays from July 6th to 7th, 1985 . Haidt 1985, p. 13
Fritz Mägerlein: The Meierhof Stephansberg . In: In the spell of the Schwanberg 1971. Heimat-Jahrbuch for the district of Kitzingen . Kitzingen 1971. pp. 115-126.
Genealogical manual of the nobility : Adelslexikon Volume XIII.
Hasso Wildhagen: Stephansberg. A small hamlet between Stadtschwarzach and Kleinlangheim . In: Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Kunst Vol. 41 (= Archive of the Historical Association for Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg Vol. 112) . Würzburg 1989. pp. 157-168.

Web links

Commons : Stephansberg - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ FG: Haidt . P. 13.
↑ Fritz Mägerlein: The Grange Stephan Berg . P. 125.
^ Denis André Chevalley: Lower Franconia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (= Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-486-52397-X .

49.7871 10.2454Coordinates: 49 ° 47 ′ 13.6 " N , 10 ° 14 ′ 43.4" E

[1] FG: Haidt . P. 13.

[2] Fritz Mägerlein: The Grange Stephan Berg . P. 125.

[3] Denis André Chevalley: Lower Franconia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (= Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-486-52397-X .