Waizenbach Castle

The Waizenbach castle stands in the Lower Franconian Waizenbach , a district of the municipality of Wartmannsroth in the Bavarian district of Bad Kissingen .

The castle is one of the architectural monuments of Wartmannsroth and is registered under the number D-6-72-161-17 in the Bavarian list of monuments .

history

The Waizenbach Castle was built in 1570 by Dietz von Thüngen built and his wife Agatha of Seckendorf.

In 1629 Wolf Dietrich Truchseß von Wetzhausen , husband of Christine Barbara von Thüngen, became the new owner of the castle; The Thüngen family remained the owners until 1678. In 1682 it came into the possession of Maria Kunigunde von Elkershausen, née von Thüngen, but was bought back in the following year by Canon Johann Samuel von Thüngen zu Bamberg and Würzburg. After his death, an inheritance dispute developed between his two daughters, which was waged for several decades with changing parties, including the Counts of Hatzfeld, and finally in 1732 through an agreement with the Juliusspital in Würzburg, as the last opponent, before the Reich Chamber of Commerce in favor of Granddaughter of the buyer, Magdalena Regina Truchseß von Wetzhausen born. von Jöstelberg, was decided.

This set up a women's monastery for the unmarried, Protestant daughters of the related Truchseß von Wetzhausen and von Stetten families, and also for the daughters of the Franconian knighthood families in Waizenbach . The canonesses who lived there in a pious household were subordinate to a provess chosen from among their group and ran a common household. On April 15, 1883, this foundation budget was dissolved, the ladies left Waizenbach. The castle fell into disrepair and was used as accommodation for French prisoners of war during the First World War. a. the Reich Labor Service housed there. On April 5, 1945 the castle, the church and several buildings in Waizenbach were badly damaged by an air raid. After the first security measures after the war and the reconstruction of the church, the castle was restored in 2001/02 and 2012 and is now used by various tenants. The foundation, whose assets consist of agricultural and forestry land in addition to the buildings, was under the administration of the Crown of Bavaria for almost two hundred years until 1997 and of the Free State of Bavaria from 1919 and has been administered since then by a representative of the founding family. The current manager is Michael Freiherr Truchseß von Wetzhausen.

literature

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. 1079

Web links

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

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