Thurn (Heroldsbach)

Thurn is a district of the municipality of Heroldsbach in the Forchheim district in the Bavarian administrative district of Upper Franconia .

history

Thurn Castle was first mentioned in a document in 1323/1324, according to other information in 1422. The Lords of Gotzmann had lived at Thurn Castle since 1399, followed by von Bünau , then von Guttenberg and in 1680 von Schönfeld . In 1971 the municipalities of Heroldsbach, Thurn and Oesdorf merged with Poppendorf to form the municipality of Heroldsbach.

Thurn Castle with amusement park

A striking feature of the district is the baroque Thurn Castle, whose park has been operated as a leisure park by the Counts of Bentzel since the 1970s . In 1748 the cathedral chapter Lothar Philip Wilhelm, Baron von Horneck von Weinheim acquired the property. He had the former knight's castle transformed into a baroque pleasure palace.