Bruck Castle in the pond

The abandoned Bruck castle in the pond was in the Oberbruck district of the Upper Palatinate municipality of Kulmain in the Tirschenreuth district (Oberbruck, house no. 23). The location is designated as a ground monument.

history

The first documentary mention of Oberbruck can be found in the Leuchtenberg fief book from 1400, in which it says that Item Hermann, Hanns Albrecht and Ott di Santner have fiefdoms ... Hohenbrukk . Obviously Oberbruck was founded in the 11th or 12th century, because the local St. Helena chapel has the year "1320". In 1408 Georg Pfreimdner was enfeoffed with Oberbruck, later (1431, 1442) he was named as a feudal man from the Palatinate. The castle was destroyed by the Hussites around 1430 , but then rebuilt. In 1437 Georg Pfreimder received money from Count Palatine Ludwig to build the seat and the dwelling in Bruck. In 1450, Count Palatine Friedrich I gave Georg Pfreimder again the Veste Bruck with all its affiliations. This Georg was followed by Hans Pfreimder in 1473 with his brothers Klaus , Adam and Jobst . In 1484 the residence was mainly divided between the brothers Klaus and Adam . In 1485 Klaus receives the old seat in Bruck, which is there in the weyer as a fief. Adam got the new seat in 1484, Bruck Castle on the tower .

In 1510 Bruck in the pond goes to Hans , the son of Klaus , and Adam Pfreimder as well as to Hans von Brandt zu Pruck . The latter seems to have died soon, because his son Jörg and the children of his late brother Hans Endres von Brandt appear between 1518 and 1539 . In 1545 the Pfreimder seem to have reunited the fief that had been divided several times into the hands of Christian Pfreimder . In 1570 Adam Pfreimder is the owner of the fief, followed by his son Neidhard . Between 1591 and 1609 Wolf Veit Pfreimder united the two seats in Bruck. He is followed by Paul Lorenz Pfreimder . In 1715, under Hans Bernhard Pfreimder , both seats were finally merged.

Location and construction

The facility was located in the south of the Oberbruck district, approx. 100 m west of the St. Helena chapel. At the Am Weiher location, house number 23 is now. There used to be a slight terrain spur here, which rose about 2 m above the valley floor.

The castle must have had a defensive character, as it is always referred to as a fortress in the fiefdoms . A moat was dug around the castle in 1446. To the north was a dungeon , which in earlier times must come, as were no longer built in the 15th century such towers. Perhaps this was originally a ring wall castle (from the 12th or 13th century), which was then expanded. As can be seen from old views, the castle was surrounded on three sides by a wall and a pond. A wooden walkway led from the church to the castle. The building itself was two-story with wooden gables and a gable roof . In the east there were two cross-frame windows that suggest a renovation in the 16th century.

In 1862 the castle property was dissolved and the castle pond left out. In 1871 the residence on the pond burned down; then the other buildings were also torn down. In 1929, today's house No. 23 was built, and old wall foundations came to light during the construction.

literature

• Ulrich Kinder (2013): The fortifications in the Tirschenreuth district . (= Work on the archeology of southern Germany. Volume 28), (pp. 170–173). Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach. ISBN 978-3-933474-82-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ground monument D-3-6137-0056 Medieval castle stables Bruck am Weiher

Coordinates: 49 ° 53 ′ 16.5 ″  N , 11 ° 53 ′ 0.1 ″  E