Brandstein

Brandstein Castle Estate

Brandstein is a district of the municipality of Berg in the Upper Franconian district of Hof in Bavaria .

location

Brandstein is located on the eastern edge of the Franconian Forest on State Road 2692, southeast of the municipality of Berg and east of Federal Motorway 9 .

In Brandstein there is a castle built by the von Schönfeld family at the end of the 18th century and the Braunstein castle ruins . The von Weißelsdorf and Murring families are named under the influence of the von Weida bailiffs . Vorwerke to the castle were in Schlegel , Schnarchenreuth and Gottsmannsgrün . At the end of the 19th century, Alban von Dobeneck sold the family property to the son of Franz August Mammen , Enno Mammen, from a family of industrialists in Plauen . He was succeeded by the ennobled son Franz von Mammen († 1936) as the owner.

Hans Bucka , Oskar Heland : boundary stones, hallway and small monuments in the district of Hof . Hof 1991. ISBN 3-88267-040-1 . Pp. 29-31.

August Gebeßler : City and District of Hof . The Art Monuments of Bavaria , Brief Inventories , Volume VII . German art publisher . Munich 1960. p. 39.

Wilhelm Malter : Upper Franconia East . Heroldsberg 1984. p. 339.

Hans Seiffert : Castles and palaces in the Franconian Forest . Helmbrechts 1937. pp. 133-135.

Commons : Brandstein - collection of images, videos and audio files

↑ Peter Braun (ed.): Alban Freiherr von Dorbenck - History of the extinct family of the von Sparneck . Edited reprint of the work from 1905/1906. Norderstedt 2009. pp. 7-9. ISBN 978-3-8370-8717-8 .