Breitenlohe moated castle
The moated castle Breitenlohe is a castle in the place Breitenlohe , a district of Burghaslach in the Central Franconian district of Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim .
location
The castle is centrally located in the town of Breitenlohe and can be reached via State Road 2256.
Shape and history
It is a moated castle with a square floor plan with a rectangular inner courtyard. It has four three-story wings and round corner towers. To the east of the castle there are farm buildings assigned to the castle with a stable building and a barn from the 18th century. There was a prison in the southwest tower.
The moated castle was first mentioned in 1340 when it was owned by Albrecht von Hohenlohe . The nobles von Vestenberg followed in the 14th century, who converted the moated castle into a castle in the 15th century, which was destroyed in the peasant wars around 1525. Kunz Christoph von Vestenberg had the current castle built from the remains from around 1569. In 1592, the indebted Sigismund von Vestenberg sold the castle and estate to Lorenz von Münster zu Lisberg . Under this family, the castle was partially baroque. In 1783 the castle and corridor were sold to the Counts of Castell . In 1942 it was bought by the water works entrepreneur Georg Jaeckel, from whom the current owners, the Friedrich family, inherited it; they restored it in several phases.
monument
The castle is listed in the Bavarian Monument List under the number D-5-75-116-24 with the following description: "Castle, former moated castle, four-wing, three-storey complex with gable roofs, four round corner towers with tent roofs and arched curtain windows, each on the west side an ornamental gable with crenellated top, courtyard with round stair tower in the southwest and octagonal stair tower in the northeast corner, in the core 15th century, renovation 1569–71, in the east wing a basket-arched, embossed passage gate with half-columns and vase attachments, 1720-30; Remainder of the defensive wall, quarry stone wall with a gable roof as well as arched passage and passage, 16th century; Trench bridge, two-arched stone bridge with baluster railing and sandstone figures of Immaculata and St. Johann Nepomuk, around 1720/30, repaired 1734; Trench and garden walls, stone block masonry, some with baluster railing, 16th century, railing 18th century "
See also
literature
- Natascha Meuser: Breitenlohe Castle: Architecture and building history. DOM publishers, ISBN 978-3869223612 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ BayernAtlas. Retrieved January 6, 2020 .
- ^ BayernAtlas. Retrieved January 6, 2020 .
- ^ Schloss Breitenlohe - Franconian Tourism Association. Retrieved January 6, 2020 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 42 ′ 45.5 ″ N , 10 ° 36 ′ 31.4 ″ E