Stutgarten - Burg Spangenberg
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Reste Umzäunung Stutgarten- Burg SpangenbergPhoto: Thomas Mann, CC BY-SA, Thomas Mann
The Stutgarten of Spangenberg Castle
The castle, part of the Kirrweiler bishopric in 1530, became the administrative seat of a stud farm run by bishop's stutmeister, who were also castle administrators. At that time, a large paddock for horse breeding ("Stutgarten") was installed on the western castle hill.
The Stutgarten of Spangenberg Castle
Bishop of Speyer's horse paddock, laid out in 1505, covering an area of 2.72 hectares. The fence of sand posts can still be seen. Of the 215 posts that once existed, about half are still standing. Six of them were destroyed.
Between 1505 and the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War, the following, mostly non-noble Stutmeisters moved into Spangenberg in place of the previous Burgmannen: Franz Hertel (1505), Hans Fort gen. Schwytzer (1527), Friedrich gen. Schlupffer (1543, was Stutknecht in 1532), Hans Schwab (1554), Wilhelm Dierolf (1576), Wilhelm Dierolf and/or Hans Weigand Licht (1581), Friedrich von Helmstadt (1597), Hans Schmidt (1602) and Eberhard von Hattstein (1604). With the Protestant (sic!) Eberhard von Hattstein, the list of Stutmeister ends a few years before the beginning of the Thirty Years' War.
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Stutgarten - Burg Spangenberg
67466 Erfenstein
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