Thundorf Castle

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The castle in 2007
Church square, pavilion

The Thundorf Castle is a moated castle in the center of Thundorf in francs , which is used as a parish center today. It belongs to the Thundorf architectural monuments and is registered under the number D-6-72-157-3 in the Bavarian list of monuments .

history

After giving up the castle stables on the hill, the burgraves of Schaumberg built their residence on the plain in the form of a moated castle around 1600. The moated castle replaced a previous building that was destroyed in the German Peasants' War. E. Titschack assumes that this previous building must have been built before 1444, since a document from 1444 differentiates between the bower and mountain castle on the one hand and castle and village Thundorf on the other. In doing so, he contradicts S. Zeißner, who assumed that it was composed in 1485/90. and refers to the fact that, on the one hand, host Oskar v. Schaumburg was in Jerusalem around 1485/90 and, on the other hand, there are no references to a construction company in the approximately 60 construction bills for this time.

After the Thirty Years War , today's moated castle, which was built in 1600, became the property of the Barons of Rosenburg. From 1749 to 1756, they had a second castle wing added on the north-east front and the old castle wing and the corner towers renovated.

After the family of the Barons von Rosenburg died out, the complex became the property of the Kingdom of Bavaria .

From 1816 the younger wing of the complex was converted into the parish church of St. Laurentius under master builder Büttner . During a renovation of the castle and church in autumn 1976, remains of walls and wooden posts were discovered. It is unclear whether the remains of the wall are the remains of the corner tower of a multi-wing complex or the foundation stones of a defense tower on the edge of the fortification wall. The wooden stakes indicate the construction of a system in the swampy terrain.

description

The complex originally planned to have four wings was not fully implemented. It consists of a main building in solid construction with two mighty onion domes in the style of the Franconian late Renaissance . This is followed by a transverse building in the classical style (church). In 1976, the church interior was expanded using modern concrete construction and a baptistery was added. The castle belonging tithe barn with further outbuildings as well as in small park which has a pavilion in half-timbered style houses.

literature

  • Rainer Schüler: The architectural and field monuments of the Thundorf community in the districts of Thundorf, Theinfeld and Rothhausen , 1981, pp. 108–118
  • Georg Dehio : Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bavaria I: Franconia: The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia: BD I , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin, 2nd, revised and supplemented edition, 1999, p. 1021

Web links

Commons : Schloss Thundorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ L. Fries: The history of the peasant wars in East Franconia , Volume 1, 1883, p. 227
  2. ^ A b E. Titschack: Johann Georg Löffler, Life Path of a Student of the Coburg High School Academicum , in: Yearbook of the Coburg State Foundation , 1957
  3. ^ History of the rule Thundorf , Hofheim 1925, repr. Thundorf, 1979

Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 1 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 6.8 ″  E