Syburg Castle

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Syburg
Bergen municipality
Coordinates: 49 ° 3 ′ 55 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 7 ″  E
Height : 521 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 15  (1987)
Postal code : 91790
Area code : 09147
Gate tower of the water castle Syburg
Gate tower of the water castle Syburg

The Syburg Castle is a moated castle in the Middle Franconian district of Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen and forms with several houses a district of the municipality Bergen . The hamlet lies at an altitude of around 521 meters above  sea ​​level and has 15 inhabitants (as of 1987).

location

The castle stands on a plateau of the Weißenburger Alb , a partial mountain range of the Franconian Alb , in the east of the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, southeast of Bergen and near the Thalmannsfeld district . Nennslingen is in the south . The castle is framed by forests and meadows. The castle moat and the southern Gutzenweiher not far from it are fed by the main moat, which merges with the nearby Augraben east of the castle to form the Erlenbach . A small road connects the castle with the district road WUG 16 , which leads southeast of the castle to the district road WUG 14 . A hiking trail and a cycling trail lead past the castle. The district is situated in the Altmühltal nature park in a conservation area and is surrounded by a Fauna-Flora-Habitat .

history

View of the castle

Syburg Castle is a moated castle, first mentioned in 1470, which dates back to an 11th century moated castle and was acquired by the Geyern taverns . In the 18th century it was expanded to a rococo complex . The main building is a three-story, two-wing hipped roof building from the middle of the 18th century. The economic courtyard dates from the 16th century, the gate tower from 1759, the orangery and the garden pavilion around 1750.

In 1846 there were nine houses, thirteen families and 41 “souls” as well as a landlord and a shoemaker in Syburg, next to the castle. In 1875 the forty inhabitants of the village lived in eleven buildings. They owned a total of five horses and 21 head of cattle. Before the municipal reform in Bavaria in the 1970s, Syburg was a district of Thalmannsfeld, which was incorporated into Bergen on May 1, 1978.

Until the 1960s, the castle was the seat of a branch of the Schenk von Geyern family . Maximilian Ernst Freiherr Schenk von Geyern sold it to Ernst August Prinz zur Lippe in 1970 . In 1977 a private citizen bought the castle at auction, which attracted regional interest as he was in a legal dispute with the municipality and the district due to a nearby sewage treatment plant . The foreclosure auction by the Weißenburg District Court was planned for January 2017 and is currently suspended.

Monument protection

The entire palace complex was registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian list of monuments by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation under the number D-5-77-115-31 . The underground components of the moated castle and the medieval predecessor system were declared a ground monument under the number D-5-6932-0091. In addition, an inn southeast of the castle, a two-story hipped roof building from the 18th century, together with its outbuilding, is entered in the list of monuments under the number D-5-77-115-32. The castle is classified as a monument to the landscape.

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 , p. 58-60 .
  • Karl Hannakam and Ludwig Veit (edit.): Archives of Barons Schenk von Geyern at Syburg Castle, Munich 1958

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria. Territorial status: May 25, 1987. Munich (Contributions to Statistics Bavaria 450), 1991, p. 350
  2. ↑ Topographic maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )
  3. ↑ bergen-mittelfranken.de , accessed on August 9, 2015
  4. ↑ a b Bergen in the list of monuments of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  5. ^ Eduard Vetter: Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria , 1846, page 124
  6. ↑ Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. [...] with an alphabetical general register of places containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875. Munich, 1877, column 1269
  7. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria. Territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census. Munich (Contributions to Statistics Bavaria 260), 1964, column 836
  8. ↑ A man fights against the world , Süddeutsche Zeitung , published on August 25, 2013, accessed on August 9, 2015
  9. ↑ Foreclosure auction 2017