Werneck

Werneck is a marketplace metropolis inside the district of Schweinfurt in Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. It has a population of round 10,000 and is satisfactory recognised for its Baroque palace, Schloss Werneck. The first written report of Werneck is dated 10 August 1223, as a fief granted by Bodo of Ravensburg, showed via the Pope on 9 April 1223. Between 1224 and 1250, ownership of the fief become shared between first the Teutonic Knights and later Conrad of Reichenberg and Conrad of Schmiedefeld, till it eventually surpassed to the Bishopric of Wurzburg. A citadel placed there has been sacked within the Peasants' War in 1525 after which seized and burnt down through Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach in 1553.

It changed into rebuilt in 1601 underneath Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn, however was again destroyed by fire in 1723 and simply patched up in 1724. The modern baroque palace, Schloss Werneck, designed with the aid of Balthasar Neumann, was built in 1733–forty five via Prince Bishop Friedrich Karl von Schonborn. For half of a century it was, with Veitshochheim, a summer house of the Bishops of Wurzburg. On 28 November 1802, the closing Prince-Bishop of Wurzburg, Georg Karl von Fechenbach, released his vassals there from their oaths of provider and advocated them to the new regional overlord, Maximilian, Prince-Elector of Bavaria.