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Axtheid Castle

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Vilseck

Axtheid Castle

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Location: Vilseck, Amberg-Sulzbach, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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2. Flussgeister Wooden Sculpture – Axtheid Castle loop from Vilseck

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Max Volker

January 1, 2021

The former castle hat was mentioned as early as 1493. It is a country estate with servants' house and so-called Zehrgaden (storage room) on the ground floor. The stair tower with the octagonal upper floor with half-timbered and tented roof is noteworthy. This building is also privately owned today.

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Staufer

May 23, 2023

Axtheid Castle

Axtheid Castle is a castle in the Axtheid district of the Upper Palatinate town of Vilseck.

The castle was the seat of the castle keeper of Burg Dagestein, also the official seat of the Bishop of Bamberg and the seat of the Vilseck caretaker office. The castle estate is first mentioned in the Vilsecker interest book, which was created between 1493 and 1506.

The castle was rebuilt at the end of the 16th century. It probably suffered during the Thirty Years' War, so that a partial new building was necessary; the year 1656, carved into the sandstone spindle of the stair tower, bears witness to this. It is a two-storey, plastered solid building (designated "1799") with a half-hipped roof and colored corner pilaster strips. It has a stair tower with a half-timbered floor and a tent roof. The building was redesigned several times, for example in the first half of the 17th century, then again around 1686 and after 1700. The property includes another building, which is colour-coordinated with the castle, and a farm yard.

In 1774 the castle became the property of the commoner Johann Georg Grösl (1706-1771); it remained the property of the Grösl family until 1949, which is why the house name “beim Grösl” came about. Anna Maria Grösl married Johann Engelhardt in 1949 and the castle is still in the family.

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Location: Vilseck, Amberg-Sulzbach, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

Axtheid Castle

1. Flussgeister Wooden Sculpture – Axtheid Castle loop from Schlicht

2. Flussgeister Wooden Sculpture – Axtheid Castle loop from Vilseck

3. Zollhaus Café – Axtheid Castle loop from Vilseck

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