Friedersried Castle

Former castle chapel of the Holy Three Kings and St. Matthew in Friedersried

The listed remains of the abandoned Friedersried Castle are located in the district of the same name in the Upper Palatinate market of Stamsried in the Cham district (Friedersried 17).

history

The name Friedersried refers to a clearing site, which is connected to the state development in the 11th century, and to the founder of the settlement. Friderichsruith was created in the area that Emperor Heinrich II gave to the Bamberg diocese in 1107 . In 1109 it became part of the founding equipment of theChecking Monastery .

From the second half of the 12th century, the Bamberg ministerial family of the Friedrichsreuter can be found here. Friedrich de Friderichsruite and his brother Megingoz appear as the first representatives of this family around 1130/40 . A Friedrich von Friedersried mentioned in an arbitration agreement in 1189 is probably the son of the aforementioned Friedrich. A Megingoz also reappears as a witness in 1190/1220, probably a son of Megingoz the Elder , he is considered to be the builder of the castle chapel of the Three Kings. The last Friedrichsreuter are a Henricus de Friedrichsruit named between 1212 and 1224 in a tradition of the Reichenbach monastery and a Fridericus de Friderichsriut documented in 1261 . The family seems to have died out afterwards, the other owners of the castle are not known. Perhaps the facility was destroyed in the Hussite Wars .

Friedersried Castle today

Some remains of the walls of the former castle in house Friedrichsried No. 17 have been preserved. Granite blocks and a stone wall with a simple slit from the early 12th century can be seen; the facility is built over by a farm. To the north of it is the substructure of an approximately square tower (6.5 × 6.25 m) made of granite and sandstone blocks.

To the west of it is the former castle chapel of the Three Kings and St. Matthew , which later became the village church. From the castle there was direct access through a raised rectangular gate in the west wall of the church, which was accessible via a wooden walkway directly from the residential buildings of the castle. In this upper church there was a separate altar for the lords of the castle.

literature

• Bernhard Ernst: Castle building in the southeastern Upper Palatinate from the early Middle Ages to the early modern period, Part II catalog (=  work on the archeology of southern Germany . Volume 16 ). Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2001, ISBN 3-933474-20-5 , pp. 82-84 .

Web links

• Branch church Friedersried

Individual evidence

1. ^ List of architectural monuments in Stamsried

Coordinates: 49 ° 16 ′ 9.7 "  N , 12 ° 29 ′ 24.2"  E