Weyberhöfe Castle

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Palace building with Mainz coat of arms (Südriegel)
Coat of arms Elector Daniel Brendel von Homburg
Pfinzing map from 1594

The Weiberhof Castle , which is located in the Weiberhof district of Sailauf and today houses the “Kurfürstliche Schlosshotel Weyberhöfe”, goes back to the first of four hunting castles that were built in the Spessart by the Electors of Mainz . It is located at the starting point and destination of several historical Spessart crossings, namely on Lohrer Straße or Mainzer Straße, which was also called Kurfürstenweg and reached the Spessart Heights via Steiger, on Römerweg via Untersailaufer Höhe and the Engländer in the direction of Orb and on the path via Keilberg, the Posthalterkreuz and Rohrbrunn to Esselbach and Lengfurt.

history

Werner von Eppstein built this hunting lodge "castrum vivarum" in 1265, where he died in 1284. It was probably a stone tower with farm buildings and a zoo as the name vivarum suggests. In the Markgräflerkrieg in 1552 it was destroyed in 1557 under Elector Daniel Brendel von Homburg the hunting lodge was rebuilt.

Over the centuries the “vivarum” became “vivar”, “wiber”, “weiber” and later also “weyber”. In 1681 Michael Sickenberger from Großkrotzenburg settled in Hofgut Weyber as a tenant, later a courtier. He ran sheep there and became "hereditary owner of the Weiberhoff"; this office was also carried out by his sons and their descendants until the 19th century. On the Spessart map of Paul Pfinzing from 1562/1594 women is shown with a house.

Coats of arms carved in stone remind us that the property was the seat of the Count of the "Cent vorm Spessart".

In 1812 the Weiberhof belonged to Mairie Sailauf. In 1823 there was an iron hammer at the Weiberhof owned by Heinrich Gemeiner (1798-1854), ironworks owner in Weiberhof near Aschaffenburg and Laufach, who also owned the iron hammer on Aschaffsteg (Markt Hösbach). In 1824 the Weiberhof had a grinding mill and two oil mills. In 1857 Anton Sickenberger was the owner of the Weiberhof, in 1867 Hermann John. In 1876 the iron smelter and foundry of Mr. Georg Winter were located on the Weiberhof. 35 workers processed Staffelsteiner iron ore there. The base of a factory chimney has been preserved from this period and has been transformed into a clock tower. In 1897 Franz von Dressler von Scharfenstein was the owner of the Weiberhof.

In 1904, Alexander von Cancrin , descendant of a Hessian mountain master family from Bieber im Spessart, descended from the Baden line, acquired the property and ran it as a farm. The aristocratic residence was redesigned in the style of historicism. In 1990 the last owner of the farm, Baroness Alix von Cancrin (1904 - December 26, 1990) died.

Its subsequent owner, the businessman Edmund Weber , remembered the elector's mouth cook Marx Rumpolt and converted the property from 1993 to 1995 into a wellness hotel, which was called the “Schlosshotel Weyberhöfe”. The building is registered under the number D-6-71-150-2 in the Bavarian list of monuments and is described there under the address Weyberhöfe 11 as follows: Former. Weiberhof hunting lodge, now a hotel, saddle roof construction with stepped gables, 16th century; Farm buildings .

In 1998 the restaurant "Careme" was opened under the direction of the chef Juan Amador , which in 2001 received its second Michelin star. From 1999 to 2003, Juan Amador was Chef de Cuisine at the Schlosshotel Weyberhöfe. Under new management, a hotel complex with conference and event rooms, a beauty farm, stalactite cave, ice grotto, experience showers and plunge pool was built by 2005. The hotel was renovated in 2016/17.

landscape

Weyberhöfe Castle is located on park-like grounds on the Laufach between the old Kurfürstenweg from Aschaffenburg to Lohr am Main (now the B 26) and the Frankfurt - Würzburg railway line on the edge of the Spessart nature reserve. At the adjacent Weyberhöfe industrial estate, the Sailaufbach flows into the Laufach, which flows into the Aschaff west of the sewage treatment plant and north of the A3 motorway .

literature

  • Anton Rahrbach, Jörg Schöffl, Otto Schramm: Palaces and castles in Lower Franconia - A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Lower Franconian independent cities and districts . Hofmann Verlag, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-87191-309-X , p. 146.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Archives Würzburg OKR 27371

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 '22 "  N , 9 ° 14' 35.54"  O