Wassertrüdingen Castle

Wassertrüdingen Castle
Wassertrüdingen Castle (left: Gothic gateway to the old castle)
Alternative name (s):	Castle in the Wörnitzgrund
Creation time :	around 1250
Castle type :	Moated castle
Conservation status:	partially preserved
Standing position :	Count
Geographical location	49 ° 2 '16.4 "  N , 10 ° 35' 50.2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 2 '16.4 "  N , 10 ° 35' 50.2"  E
Height:	423  m above sea level NHN

Also known as Margrave castle famous castle Wassertrüdingen is a former moated castle in the center of Wassertrüdingen in Central Franconia Ansbach today and monument .

investment

The complex, built in the form of a moated castle at the beginning of the 13th century , was protected by two wide moats , a mighty earth wall and a curtain wall . Access was via the main gate facing north-west . Parts of this circular wall, the Gothic gate passage and the core of the "old fortress" have been preserved to this day. In 1688 the complex was rebuilt or parts of it were rebuilt in the late Baroque style.

history

The builders are generally considered to be the lords of Truhendingen , who were first mentioned as counts in 1264 around the presumed construction time of the moated castle at the beginning of the 13th century. The Lords of Truhendingen had their headquarters in neighboring Altentrüdingen . The castle complex was spared from the town fire in 1388. During the Peasants' War in 1525, the Oettingian administrator Kaspar Schenk von Schenkenstein sat at Wassertrüdingen Castle, whose ancestral castle Schenkenstein Castle had been burned down by the rebels. During the Thirty Years War , the town was burned down by the Bavarian troops on the orders of General Jean de Werth under the command of Colonel Du Partel. The castle was spared from this conflagration. In 1688 the palace was partially rebuilt and redesigned in Baroque style . A spacious staircase and elaborate stucco work were incorporated.

Over the centuries, the castle housed the caste office, upper office, the margravial district directorate, state and municipal authorities, the regional court, the district court, notary's office, tax office and the prison. Today the castle houses the Christa Maria Stift , which operates a care facility for mentally and physically disabled people.

Photo gallery

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  Old Wassertrüdingen moated castle

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  Hall

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  Access from the south

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  Inner courtyard of the baroque castle

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Wassertrüdingen Castle . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 6 : V-Z . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1804, DNB  790364328 , OCLC 833753116 , Sp. 110-111 ( digitized version ).
• August Gebeßler : City and district of Dinkelsbühl (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 15 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1962, DNB  451450930 , p. 209-218 .
• Georg Muck: History of Heilsbronn Monastery from prehistoric times to modern times . tape 2 . For Kunstreprod. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 1993, ISBN 3-923006-90-X , p. 521-522 (first edition: Beck, Nördlingen 1879).
• Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 234-235 .
• Gottfried Stieber: Wassertrüdingen Castle . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 906-917 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historical Lexicon of Bavaria - Hubert Ruß: Lords / Counts of Truhendingen
2. ↑ Information board on site