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Landkreis Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz

Dietfurt a.d. Altmühl

Wildenstein Castle

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Landkreis Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz

Dietfurt a.d. Altmühl

Wildenstein Castle

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Wildenstein Castle

Name: Wildenstein Castle
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Location: Dietfurt a.d. Altmühl, Landkreis Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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3. Chinesenbrunnen Dietfurt – Lourdes Grotto on the Kreuzberg loop from Dietfurt an der Altmühl

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September 22, 2024

Wildenstein Castle

The ancestral seat is named after Wildenstein Castle and the village of Wildenstein.
As part of the free Franconian knighthood, the family was organized in the knightly canton of Altmühl. Several family members were bailiffs or caretakers of the surrounding territories. Three members of the Wildenstein family were bailiffs of Hof in the 15th and 16th centuries. The family died out in the middle of the 17th century.
The destruction of the ancestral seat of Wildenstein was initiated during the German Peasants' War and ended in the Second Margrave War. The bailiff's house below the castle ruins served as the seat of bailiffs for a long time.
The castle building is a two-story, gable-roofed building with a central projection with a dormer. The building is essentially medieval, the entrance gate dates from the 17th/18th century. To the west is a deconsecrated castle chapel with plasterwork, a bay tower and an onion dome from 1556. The eastern wing is a three-storey gable roof building with a northern balcony and also plasterwork, which dates from the 17th century.
To the north of this is the brewhouse; This is a two-storey gable roof building with a half-timbered upper floor and brickwork from 1922. The ensemble also includes the former brewery restaurant, a single-storey mansard hipped roof building with dormer windows, corner bay windows, plasterwork and garages in neo-baroque style from 1922. It also includes a stable, an eaves-facing gable roof building with gable walls made of quarry stone from the 18th century, a former economic wing, this is a multi-storey building with a gable roof and vaulted zones on both floors from the 18th century, and a coach house, a single-storey solid building with a gable roof from the 19th century.
The stone bridge to the gate entrance dates from the 16th century. In the park there is historicizing staffage architecture with stepped gables and round turrets from the 19th century. In the northeast of the complex, remains of the medieval castle wall with the balcony made of ashlar masonry have been preserved.

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January 29, 2023

Former castle in Wildenstein with church

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June 23, 2025

The castle building is a two-story, gable-roofed structure with a central projection and a dormer. The building's core is medieval, and the gateway dates from the 17th/18th century. Attached to the west is a deconsecrated castle chapel with plasterwork, a bay tower, and an onion dome dating from 1556. The eastern wing is a three-story, gable-roofed structure with a northern balcony and also plasterwork, dating from the 17th century.

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Location: Dietfurt a.d. Altmühl, Landkreis Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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Wildenstein Castle

1. View from Breitfelsen – Kopffelsen Rock Formation loop from Dietfurt an der Altmühl

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3. Chinesenbrunnen Dietfurt – Lourdes Grotto on the Kreuzberg loop from Dietfurt an der Altmühl

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