To be privately owned
CastleAhorn
Ahorn Castle
Ahorn Castle is a castle in the municipality of Ahorn in the Upper Franconian district of Coburg.
As early as the end of the 11th century, a "Burg Ahorny" was mentioned in donation documents.
It was part of the inheritance of the Polish Queen Richeza, daughter of Count Palatine Ehrenfried of Lorraine and his wife Mathilde, daughter of Otto II. Upon her death, Richeza bequeathed her property around Coburg, which she had inherited as her mother's dowry, to Archbishop Anno II of Cologne, who used it in 1071 to endow the Benedictine monastery of Saalfeld, which he had founded. This donation included Coburg Hill, the villages of Füllbach, Creidlitz, Ketschendorf, Trufelistadt, the former imperial estates of Seidmannsdorf, Lauter and Mirsdorf, and the forest near Ahorn Castle.
Ahorn Castle in its present form was built by Joachim von Rosenau after the Peasants' War in 1555 on the remains of the older castle complex. The castle received its current appearance from the Lords of Streitberg in 1621. Over the centuries, the castle had changing owners: the von Schaumberg, Muffel von Ermreuth, von Hendrich, von Baumbach and finally the family of the Barons von Erffa, who still inhabit the castle today.
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The castle appears in Renaissance style with round corner towers on the Front Castle. In the small inner courtyard, there is an octagonal stair tower with a spiral staircase, whose steps are not attached to a column as usual, but to a stone-carved spindle. This construction was often referred to as the 9th Wonder of the World. The castle is privately owned and cannot be visited.
Immediately to the left of the castle is an estate with farm buildings from the 18th/19th century. This also includes the estate sheep farm, located about a kilometer away, a baroque complex from 1713, which today houses the Museum of Agricultural Equipment of the Coburg Region.
To the right of the castle is the charming castle church, which originated from a Gothic castle chapel. Inside are two magnificent epitaphs of the Lords of Streitberg.
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