Hoheneck Castle

Aerial view of the castle

The Hoheneck Castle is a medieval castle above Ipsheim and also a district of the town in the Middle Franconian district of Neustadt an der Aisch -Bad Windsheim. Since 1984, the castle serves as a youth educational center of the county youth for Nuremberg.

Geographical Location

The hill fort is situated on the increase in Franconia, a small-scale, wooded area ( natural park of Franconia ), high above the Aischtal.

East of the castle are the extensive Frankenhohe forests of Hohenecker Forst, at its base one of the few wine-growing regions of Central Franconia (Central Franconian Bock bag Road ).

History

Hoheneck castle was first mentioned in 1132, in the founding document of the monastery Heilsbronn.

In the early 1920s bought the Munich publisher Julius Friedrich Lehmann the castle. Hoheneck initially served the military National Association Oberland. From 1928, the castle was training center of the Sturmabteilung (SA) for Southern Germany and on several occasions the place of Nazi major events. The historian Manfred Kittel looks in the outgoing of the castle " ethnic appearance " one of the reasons for the development of West Middle Franconia to the Nazi stronghold.

The castle belongs since 1953 to the city of Nuremberg and is thus the only castle owned by the city since the Nuremberg castle owned by the Bavarian Palace and lake management is.

Since April 1984 Hoheneck castle is used as a youth training center of the county youth for Nuremberg, who is also her carrier.