Unsleben moated castle

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Unsleben moated castle from the south
Eastern part of the castle moat

The Unsleben moated castle in Lower Franconia is one of the most important examples of a Franconian knight seat in Bavaria . It is located on the northeastern edge of the village Unsleben ( Rhön-Grabfeld district ) in the floodplain of the Streu River . The Mühlgraben, which feeds the castle moat and flows around it, branches off from the litter.

description

The Unsleben moated castle is a two-wing complex with a connecting wing and a stair tower that opens up the two wings. The east wing consists of two half-timbered floors that sit on a stone floor. The west wing is closed by a baroque mansard roof. The year 1527 is written on a gate on the ground floor of the east wing. Next to the main building is a one-story farm building with the year 1613.

The castle is surrounded by a kennel complex with formerly four round towers , of which only two are preserved today. The castle chapel is partially integrated in one. An empty heraldic cartouche and the year 1737 above the gate.

history

About 1160 Helwicus de Usleybe is mentioned, who probably lived in a tower hill castle , the tower of which is in the northeast corner of the current castle . With the extinction of the Knights of Unsleben, ownership came to Christoph Truchsess von Wetzhausen through their daughter Margarete . Under the Freiherr von Truchsess the castle was enlarged and the chapel and the kennel with the four corner towers were built.

In 1525 the farmers of the Bildhäuser Haufen looted and burned the castle, but it was restored two years later. In 1560 Wilhelm von Truchsess extended the east wing in half-timbered houses. His daughter Ursula married Wilhelm von Speßhardt , bailiff in Meiningen and Maßfeld . They built the spiral staircase , renewed the chapel and covered the whole castle with ashlar plaster , as is still preserved in the inner courtyard.

Heavily indebted, the Barons von Speßhardt had to sell the property to the Baron von Gebsattel in 1727 . In 1741 he sold it to the Würzburg court chancellor Cornelius Freiherr von Habermann. The recently ennobled jurist baroque redesigned the west wing, removed the connection between the two wings and replaced the drawbridge with a stone bridge.

His great-grandson Gustav, a member of the Reichstag , built most of the courtyard buildings in 1848; his son Hugo von Habermann (1849–1929), professor at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and co-founder of the Munich Secession , restored the half-timbered structure and the interior of the east wing around 1900. The property came to the Counts of Waldburg-Wolfegg through a daughter of the painter Hugo von Habermann the Younger (1899–1981) .

Web links

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

literature

  • Chronicle of Unsleben: [Contributions to the history of the village. Contain u. a .: Contributions to the history of Unsleben / Franz Bungert. About customs and traditions / Cilli Pigor. Ed .: Community Unsleben]. 2002
  • The art monuments of Lower Franconia & Aschaffenburg, Part 22, Volume 3 of Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern, Felix Mader, Oldenbourg, 1922
  • Bungert, Franz: The von Spessart as landlords and castle lords in Unsleben. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Landkreis Rhön-Grabfeld, Vol. 22 (2000) pp. 145–151
  • Bungert, Franz: The origin of the Truchsesse from Wetzhausen to Unsleben. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Landkreis Rhön-Grabfeld, Vol. 23 (2001) pp. 218–228
  • Hesselbach, Josef: The manor in Unsleben In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Landkreis Rhön-Grabfeld, Vol. 32 (2010). P. 96 ff.

Coordinates: 50 ° 22 '44.1 "  N , 10 ° 15' 34.4"  E