Tüschnitz moated castle

Tüschnitz moated castle

The moated castle Tüschnitz was located from 1288 to 1632 in the Tüschnitz settlement, since 1971 a district of the market town of Küps in the Upper Franconian district of Kronach in Bavaria .

Geographical location

Tüschnitz lies in the middle of the extensive valley landscape of the central Rodach . The favorable location of the place on this river, which served as a transport route in the Middle Ages , established the establishment of a total of ten aristocratic residences in the Küps market area, to which Tüschnitz has belonged since 1971. Nine of the ten properties still exist, some of which have been heavily modified or as ruins or ground memorials .

The Tüschnitzer Castle was in the center of the village. The street name "Schloßring" refers to the previous location.

history

A knight Boppo von Tuchenze was mentioned in a document in 1288 as the owner of a fortified farm north of the village pond. In the middle of the 14th century, the barons of Redwitz converted the court into a moated castle .

Archaeological excavations under the direction of the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments were able to prove at least five construction phases of the palace complex. The central building is a residential tower from the 14th century that overlays an older wall. The residential tower had a footprint of 11 × 12 meters and consisted of sandstone blocks . The excavations uncovered further foundations of more recent additions.

During the Peasants' War in 1525 , the moated castle was destroyed and rebuilt. In 1531 Daniel, Christoph, Wolfram and Emmeran von Redwitz gave their property to the Bamberg Monastery as a fief . In 1626 the bishopric returned the fiefdom to Veit von Redwitz, who immediately sold the property to Hans Heinrich von Künsberg, who made a few extensions. Six years later, the castle was finally destroyed by dispersed troops during the Thirty Years' War .

Relics

Economy house

Only one building of the estate has been preserved, the so-called tenant house or economy house, the massive ground floor walls of which come from a late medieval building. The protruding half-timbered upper floor with five to seven windows and a bulky-looking half-hipped roof dates from the 18th century.

The area on which the moated castle stood has not been built over since it was destroyed in 1632. The excavations were backfilled and the foundation walls raised in the contours. They protrude from the ground and represent a protected ground monument .

literature

• Tilmann Breuer : Bavarian art monuments, district of Kronach . Volume XIX, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1964.
• Albert Elstner: The von Künsberg: the story of a Franconian. Noble family . Heim Verlag, Darmstadt 1972.
• Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown, 2nd volume . Druck- und Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse GmbH, Coburg 1978, pp. 141–142.
• Heinrich Pöhlmann: History of the market town Küps . Schulze Verlag, Lichtenfels 1908.
• Hans Schleicher: The history of the market Küps . Frank de la Porte publishing house, Küps 1996, ISBN 3-932416-00-7 .
• Albrecht von und zu Egloffstein: Palaces and castles in Upper Franconia: a manual . Wolfgang Widlich Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 978-3-8035-0344-2 .

Web links

Commons : Wasserschloss Tüschnitz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• www.kueps.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Location of the ruin in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
2. ^ Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles around the Franconian Crown ; Volume 2; Neue PRESSE printing and publishing company; Coburg 1978; Pp. 141-145
3. ↑ Bavarian Office for the Preservation of Monuments: Architectural and ground monuments in Küps (PDF; 145 kB)
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown ; Volume 2; Neue PRESSE printing and publishing company; Coburg 1978; P. 141
5. ↑ ^{a b} Homepage of the Küps market ( Memento from April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 57 "  N , 11 ° 15 ′ 37.7"  E