Burgsinn Castle

About 200 meters from the castle stands the "Burgsinn Castle". The builder was the former Duke of Franconia and Würzburg Prince-Bishop Konrad II von Thüngen. Construction began in 1524, and the castle, also known as "Hohe Kemenate", was completed in 1545 by Andreas VIII von Thüngen. He belonged to the family line based in Burgsinn, hence the name of the castle.

The history of the house is very eventful, the rooms have been used for a wide variety of purposes. On the first floor, the offices of Hanskarl von Thüngen, head of the "Freiherrlich von Thüngenschen Domänenamt" and owner of the adjacent "Herzog von Franken" brewery, are still located today.

Particularly worth seeing is the former office of Konrad II von Thüngen (1466 - 1540), the former Duke of Franconia and Würzburg Prince-Bishop. The Renaissance hall, equipped with magnificent wooden inlays, was extensively renovated in the 1960s. The rich carvings were repaired or authentically supplemented by carpenters from the brewery. The wall paintings were also uncovered undamaged.

The jewel is the oak door of the room. Dr. Susanne von Thüngen describes the elaborate carvings as follows: "This work is based on ancient motifs with Ionic and Corinthian columns, as well as an idealized landscape, through which the illusion is created of looking out through a window from the interior. Characteristic of the art of this period is the clearly recognizable symmetry and central perspective." The portal with the inlays consists of twenty different types of wood.

Since February 2002, civil weddings have been performed in the Renaissance hall by Thüngen mayor Klaus Enzmann. Hanskarl von Thüngen suspects that this may have been the case even earlier.

From 1867 - 1879, the post office was located in Burgsinn Castle, and at times also a telegraph station. A central point on the ground floor was formerly a chapel. In 1960, the vaulted hall of the chapel was converted into a restaurant. Since 2009, the Keller family has been running the "Schloß-Stuben" restaurant with its beer garden and a bowling alley.

Burgsinn Castle was of great importance after 1945 for many families from the Sudetenland. The displaced persons found employment in the adjacent manor of Baron von Thüngen and were able to live in Burgsinn Castle. However, the living conditions were not very comfortable. In storage rooms and in the "Schalander" (brewers' break room), large families lived in cramped conditions.

After the war, many workers were employed at the manor, who, in addition to field work, also took care of the livestock. Today there are no more animals at the manor. The few employees cultivate the fields with modern machinery.

On the other floors of Burgsinn Castle are apartments where former employees of the brewery or the manor used to live. However, the apartments are no longer rented out today.

For the tenth anniversary of the adjacent "Herzog von Franken" brewery, a vaulted cellar hall - directly below the "Schloß-Stuben" - was elaborately renovated and can now be rented for festivities.