Lower Castle (Rottenbauer)

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Rottenbauer Lower Castle

The Lower Castle (also Wolfskeel'sches Castle) is an in Rottenbauer standing castle . It was built in the 16th century by the Franconian noble family Wolffskeel and is registered as a monument in the Bavarian monument list. After several renovations, the castle consists of three wings, two flanking round towers and a stair tower .

Surname

The name Unteres Schloss is derived from the fact that there is another stately home built by the Wolffskeels in Rottenbauer, the Upper Castle .

history

From 1430 Rottenbauer belonged to the Wolfskeel'schen possessions. There was the old castle there , already mentioned in 1376 with its owners von Rebstock , of which only the foundations remain today. In 1569 the Wolfskeels first expanded this castle. Then they built a new castle north of the old castle gate, today's Lower Castle. At the end of the 16th century, the northern wing of the castle was built in Renaissance style .

The Rottenbaurer line of the Wolfskeels died out in 1801 with Johann Philipp Jakob Heinrich von Wolfskeel in the male line . He bequeathed the Lower Castle to his daughters Amalia, married von Redwitz and Johanna, married von Groß von Trockau . However, this ruling was challenged - ultimately successfully - in a process that lasted until 1878 by the Reichenberg line of the Wolfskeels, so that the castle passed to the Reichenberg line of the Wolfskeels. This sold the castle in 1897 to the farming family Herbolsheimer.

Legend

The legend of the white woman , which can be found in church registers for centuries, is entwined with the castle . The husband, who was missing during the Crusades and was finally declared dead, is said to have reappeared at the castle one night. However, he mysteriously disappeared again that same night. The lady of the castle soon celebrated her wedding with a new man, but both died just a few years later. Since then, a white woman is said to float around the castle tower regularly at midnight. At the beginning of the 20th century, during repair work on the castle, the skeleton of a man walled in a wall niche was found who was still wearing his sword. Apparently it was the lords of the castle who had returned at the time.

Web links

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

literature

  • Anton Rahrbach, Jörg Schöffl, Otto Schramm: Palaces and castles in Lower Franconia , Nuremberg 2002
  • Heinz Rötter: Castles in Lower Franconia , Coburg 1991

Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 11.4 "  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 59.3"  E