Ziegelsdorf Castle

Ziegelsdorf Castle

The Ziegeldorf castle stands in a grove on the western edge of the Upper Franconian municipality Untersiemau in Coburg in the community town of brick village . The mansion of a manor, which was redesigned into a castle in a neo-Gothic style after 1850 , originated in the late 16th century.

Geographical location

Seven kilometers south of Coburg in the Ziegelsdorfer Grund, about one kilometer west of the Itz and three kilometers west of Untersiemau, the Ziegelsdorf Castle is located on Gossenberger Straße in the middle of a small forest, about 320 meters above sea level.

history

The first documentary mention in 1234 was a farmstead in the hamlet called Zieselsdorf at that time , from which a stately estate with a manor house developed over the course of the following 300 years. In 1682, the noble family von Völderndorff-Waradein, who immigrated from Austria and still lived at Scherneck Castle until 1700, acquired the property, which they owned until the end of the 18th century, at last heavily in debt. After the death of August Johann Christoph von Völderndorff-Waradein in 1788 and his widow two years later, Carl Ernst Christian von Tritschler and a wife from Seebach took over the property. After Tritschler's unsuccessful attempt in 1790 to take out another mortgage on the indebted property, he left it to his co-heiress, who gave her brother, the district administrator a. D. from Langensalza Hans Carl Heinrich von Seebach , who had the estate overwritten. Around 1850, the reconstruction of the old mansion of started manor in a castle in the neo-Gothic style. The last Baron von Seebach at Ziegelsdorf Castle, Hans Georg Friedrich Werner, died in 1895 and was buried in the mausoleum built not far from the castle during his lifetime . The baron who remained unmarried bequeathed the castle and estate to his nurse Ida Fries, who in 1904 had the old farm buildings torn down and rebuilt a little east of the castle.

In 1937 the farmer Wilhelmreiber bought the entire property. The knight's hall is used as a wedding hall by the registry office of the Untersiemau community.

description

The castle, which is located in a small park, consists of a rectangular, elongated building of four floors with eight window axes. The south front is dominated by a central projecting over the eaves with a stepped gable , in which the pointed arched main entrance to the castle is located. The gable roof has four narrow dormer windows on the southern half and five on the northern half . The ground and upper floors are separated by a surrounding cornice . Under the eaves of a passing battlements Fries . Above the double window on the upper floor of the risalit is the stone family coat of arms of the Seebachs, above in the dwarf a combination of three narrow windows with pointed arches. A round window with a curved »S« is embedded in the stepped gable .

When the original mansion was converted into a castle in 1850–1860, the existing floor plan was expanded to the east, south and west. The northern flight was preserved, which can still be seen from the guidance of the cellar corridors. At least three construction phases can be read. The roughly hewn quarry stones of the oldest parts of the wall on the north side come from the medieval complex and are supported by strong buttresses . Likewise, the small wine cellar and the narrow stone spiral staircase that used to lead to the upper floor can be traced back to the time of the older manor house, while the windows and door on the ground floor date from the 16th or early 17th centuries. These older components were taken over during the fundamental renovation in 1850, while large barrel vaults were also created on the new outer walls of the basement . Above the door to the knight's hall on the first floor, a coat of arms reminds of the von Völderndorff-Waradein family who immigrated from Austria in 1682 with the year 1725.

literature

• Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown. Tape. 1st 3rd edition. Neue Presse printing and publishing company, Coburg 1974.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown. Tape. 1st 3rd edition. 1974, pp. 107-109.
2. ↑ Press release of the Neue Presse Coburg ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated April 22, 2013 
3. ^ Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown. Tape. 1st 3rd edition. 1974, p. 108.

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 33.8 ″  N , 10 ° 55 ′ 39.2 ″  E