Treuchtlingen City Palace

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The Treuchtlingen City Palace is a Renaissance palace in Treuchtlingen in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . The city palace is also historically referred to as the Lower Veste , based on the Upper Veste located further above . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-173-23 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. The address is Heinrich-Aurnhammer-Strasse 3 and 5. The castle is the birthplace of Gottfried Heinrich zu Pappenheim , an equestrian general of the Thirty Years War . The quote from the drama Wallenstein's death by Friedrich von Schiller is coined on him: "This is how I recognize my Pappenheimer".

history

In 1447 the castle, which presumably emerged from a tower hill castle, was bought by Georg zu Pappenheim . The building was rebuilt in 1575 by Veit zu Pappenheim . His son Gottfried Heinrich zu Pappenheim was born here on May 29, 1594. In 1647 Albrecht II of the Principality of Ansbach , and according to another count also Albrecht V, acquired the castle for his son Albrecht Ernst. Karl Alexander von Brandenburg-Ansbach sold the building to Friedrich Wilhelm III in 1791 . of Prussia . The castle became the seat of a Prussian administrative office. In 1798, Johann Caspar Aurnhammer from the Royal Prussian-Brandenburg Domain Chamber in Ansbach bought the castle, which was in danger of collapsing . In 1885 the inside of the building was changed. In 1979 the Aurnhammer family sold part of the castle to the city of Treuchtlingen and the other part to the Schäff brewery .

The Aurnhammer collection and a trimmings museum can now be viewed in the city palace . Since 1983/84, the building has also been home to the spa and tourist information, at times a "guest house" and the Altmühltal and Ries Geopark information centers .

Building description

The former moated castle is a four-wing complex with an inner courtyard in the Renaissance style . The east wing is four-story and has a gable roof and a bay tower . The north wing, on the other hand, is three-story, has a flat hipped roof and the core of the ground floor dates from the 16th century, while its upper floors are from 1842 and the facade was simplified in 1935. The east wing is also three-story and was built in 1852. The south wing was rebuilt in 1872. The gate passage consists of a portal . Furthermore, lining walls , bastion towers and parts of the fortification wall have been preserved. Inside there are valuable stucco and renaissance ceilings as well as several historical tiled stoves .

There is a statue of Gottfried Heinrich von Pappenheim in the former moat . Presumably out of thanks for his recovery or for his regiment award and promotion to colonel, von Pappenheim set up the so-called Pappenheimer Kreuz , a listed stone cross from 1620. The original is now kept in the castle, while a cast is in the Treuchtlingen city park.

Picture gallery

  • Statue of Gottfried Heinrich zu Pappenheim in the moat

  • The northeastern part of the castle

  • South view of the city palace

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 , p. 600-601 .
  • Ruth Bach-Damaskinos, Jürgen Schnabel, Sabine Kothes: Palaces and castles in Middle Franconia - A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Central Franconian independent cities and districts . Hofmann Verlag, Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 3-87191-186-0 , pp. 185-186.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City Palace Treuchtlingen in the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ The birthplace of Gottfried Heinrich von Pappenheim , www.treuchtlingen.de; Retrieved January 20, 2013
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g History of the Treuchtlingen City Palace. (PDF; 40 kB) Archived from the original on September 16, 2008 .;
  4. ↑ Treuchtlingen City Palace. www.ausflugsziel-weltweit.de, archived from the original on March 14, 2013 (access only with password).;
  5. ↑ Treuchtlingen City Palace. City of Treuchtlingen;
  6. ↑ Stadtschloss Treuchtlingen , www.altmuehlfranken.de, District Office Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen

Coordinates: 48 ° 57 ′ 22.1 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 41 ″  E