Waldershof Castle

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The listed Waldershof Castle is located in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Waldershof in the Tirschenreuth district (Schloßweg 1 and 3).

history

The Landgraves of Leuchtenberg donated the original castle to the Waldsassen monastery in 1263 . The complex has been described several times as a Ganerbeburg . The abbots of Waldsassen accepted claims from Friedrich von Waldershof in 1280 and from Friedrich Freiterspeck von Bibra in 1335 . In the following years the castle was u. a. pledged to the von Hirschberg family . In 1471 the castle was expanded. Until the secularization of 1803, the castle was a judge's apartment.

literature

  • Ulrich Kinder: The fortifications in the Tirschenreuth district . From the series: Works on the Archeology of Southern Germany, Volume 28 . Publishing house Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-933474-82-7 , pp. 242–245.
  • Rudolf Langhammer : Waldsassen - monastery and town . Waldsassen 1936, p. 192.

Web links

Commons : Waldershof Palace  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 58 '37.9 "  N , 12 ° 3' 33.1"  E