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Kipfenberg Castle
Kipfenberg Castle is a spur castle on a steep 430 m above sea level high rock east above the municipality of Kipfenberg, Burgstraße, in the district of Eichstätt in Bavaria.
The castle was built in the 12th century and in 1277 was owned by the Knights Kropf, who named themselves Kropf von Kipfenberg after the castle and were previously ministeriales of the Counts of Hirschberg, owners of Hirschberg Castle. On September 11, 1301, Konrad, called Struma (Latin = goiter), sold the "castrum et oppidum Kipfenberg" with all its possessions to the Prince-Bishopric of Eichstätt (Bishop Konrad II von Pfeffenhausen).
In the course of secularization, the Prince-Bishopric of Eichstätt was dissolved on February 25, 1803, and Kipfenberg Castle passed to the state, which sold it to private individuals. In the 18th century, the castle began to decay, and in 1839 it was largely demolished. In 1895, the privateer Franz Häusler from Munich bought the castle from the postman Schiedermeier, and in 1914 it passed into the possession of the Taeschner family from Potsdam.
From 1914 to 1925, the castle was rebuilt around the previously freestanding keep according to a design by the architect Bodo Ebhardt.
Current Use+
The castle is privately owned and cannot be visited. The Roman and Bavarian Museum Kipfenberg Castle is housed in the outer bailey.
Description+
The castle complex, protected by a trapezoidal Roman curtain wall, features a zwinger tower from the Gothic period, a 16-meter-high square keep with a base area of seven by seven meters and a high entrance at a height of ten meters. The curtain wall of the core castle has a thickness of 1.45 meters. On the northeast side is the three-story Gothic "Witch's Tower" and on a rock spur above the western curtain wall is the chapel annex.
Of the original complex, essentially only the completely rebuilt keep and the gate system in the curtain wall have been preserved.
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Source: Wikipedia · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image: Peter Schneider
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