Unterleinleiter Castle

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Unterleinleiter Castle (left)

Unterleinleiter Castle is a castle in Unterleinleiter in Upper Franconia . The building has 29 rooms and is currently privately owned.

history

The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1372. After it was rebuilt after its destruction in the Peasants' War in 1523, it was destroyed again by a major fire in 1690 and rebuilt. It passed to the Barons von Seckendorff in 1757 and received its present form around 1770. The family gave up their residence in 1952. In the subsequent period up to the 1980s, the entire area was run as a curative educational children's home at Borgehnstein Castle , which still exists with a successor company at a new location on the Störnhofer Berg in Unterleinleiter. From 1986 the castle and the castle park were restored.

Castle Park

Unterleinleiter Castle has a 17 hectare park, which was laid out as a baroque garden after the Thirty Years War . After the palace and park became privately owned in 1985, the park was partially reconstructed with the help of old plans. In the park there are numerous, mostly modern works of art (including sculptures by the sculptor Harro Frey ) as well as a sandstone building that was used as a tea house in earlier times. In the summer months the castle park is used for cultural events.

In the castle park there is a deep well with a pump house for the drinking water supply of the place.

literature

  • Kai Kellermann: Stately gardens in Franconian Switzerland - a search for traces . Verlag Palm & Enke, Erlangen and Jena 2008, ISBN 978-3-7896-0683-0 , pp. 242-259.
  • Hellmut Kunstmann : The castles of north-western and northern Franconian Switzerland . Reprint of the 1972 edition. Kommissionsverlag Degener & Co, Neustadt an der Aisch 2000, ISBN 3-7686-9265-5 , pp. 33–43.
  • Toni Eckert, Susanne Fischer, Renate Freitag, Rainer Hofmann, Walter Thousand Pounds: The Castles of Franconian Switzerland - A cultural guide. Gürtler Druck, Forchheim 1997, ISBN 3-9803276-5-5 , pp. 171-174.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 26 "  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 19.7"  E