Cultural heritage D-5-6429-0188 in Diespeck

Schloss Waldsachsen stands in Diespeck, a village in Mittelfranken, Bavaria. The site was first recorded between 868 and 900 as ‘Ad Saxones’. By the 14th century a knightly estate had been formed here with lands in nearby villages. Its centre was a moated castle at Obersachsen, held by the Lüchau family from at least 1486. In 1525 the castle was ruined during the Peasants’ War. The estate passed to Konrad von Lüchau in 1502 and remained in his family until 1707. After decades of abandonment Stadthauptmann Bühl bought the ruins in 1707. He dismantled the remaining walls to build his own house in Dettendorf. The old estate lands later became two separate municipalities under the Kingdom of Bavaria. Today the Bodendenkmal marks the vanished moated castle and its surroundings. Visitors walk over grassy fields where walls once stood. The gentle rise of the earthworks shows where the water-filled ditches encircled the site. A small wooded area near Obersachsen preserves part of the former island platform. The quiet farmland and scattered hamlets give little hint of the castle’s long vanished grandeur.