Falkenberg Castle

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Falkenberg Castle
Falkenberg Castle

Falkenberg Castle

Creation time : First mentioned in 1154
Castle type : Höhenburg, location
Conservation status: Received or received substantial parts
Place: Falkenberg
Geographical location 49 ° 51 '33.5 "  N , 12 ° 13' 29.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '33.5 "  N , 12 ° 13' 29.6"  E
Falkenberg Castle (Bavaria)
Falkenberg Castle

The castle Falkenberg is at the market Falkenberg ( Oberpfalz ) in the district of Tirschenreuth in Bavaria .

Falkenberg Castle seen from below the castle hill

history

The oldest remains of the wall of the hilltop castle , which was inhabited until 2009 and which dominates the narrow streets of the village on the Waldnaab , are said to date from the 11th century. The castle was first mentioned in a document indirectly in 1154 in the name of a "Pilegrin de Valkenberch".

This defense structure has had many owners since it was built . At the beginning it was the Falkenberger and from 1280 the Leuchtenberger . Around 1300 the castle came into the possession of the Waldsassen monastery . The abbot Udalrich II. Birker chose it as a retirement home after 1486. Around 1571 it was owned by the Electorate of the Palatinate . Shortly before the end of the Thirty Years' War , the castle was shelled and captured by the troops of the Swedish general Königsmarck . With the secularization in 1803, the castle became the property of the Kingdom of Bavaria . In 1809 a third of the keep was demolished and the stones were used to build the rectory. Decades later the castle was listed as a historical monument .

From 1936 to 1939, the owner at the time, Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg , rebuilt it and restored it in accordance with the listed building standards. The former German ambassador in Moscow wanted to spend his old age there. He was involved in the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 on Adolf Hitler and was therefore executed on November 10, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee after a judgment of the People's Court .

In December 2008, Markt Falkenberg bought the castle complex from Schulenburg's heirs. After fundamental modernization, eight individual hotel rooms with a view over Falkenberg have been created on the upper floor. After the official inauguration by Prime Minister Seehofer in November 2015, the castle has been open to the public for tours and events since the beginning of 2016. The castle is operated by the non-profit association Forum Falkenberg - Friends of the Castle e. V.

geology

The rock on which the castle stands is the type locality for the Falkenberg granite. There the geological term wool sack weathering (figuratively: stacked sacks) was used for the first time.

The rock castle has been designated by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU) as a geoscientifically valuable geotope (geotope number: 377R012) and natural monument . It was also awarded the official seal of approval for Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes by the LfU .

Todays use

The castle is the cultural center of the market town of Falkenberg and serves the Forum Falkenberg as an event location for lectures , musical events and festivals .

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. 108-113.
  • Günter Moser, Bernhard Setzwein, Mathias Conrad: Upper Palatinate Castles - A journey to the witnesses of the past . Buch and Kustverlg Oberpfalz, Amberg 2004, ISBN 3-935719-25-6 , pp. 16-17.

Web links

Commons : Burg Falkenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ oberpfalznetz.de of December 19, 2008 , accessed on January 7, 2009.
  2. ^ Bavarian State Office for the Environment, Geotop Burgberg in Falkenberg (accessed on October 24, 2017).
  3. ↑ Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes, Burgberg Falkenberg (accessed on October 23, 2017)