Henfenfeld Castle
| Henfenfeld Castle | ||
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 Frontal view of the castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Pfinzingschloss | |
| Creation time : | around 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Receive | |
| Standing position : | Reichsministeriale | |
| Construction: | Humpback block masonry | |
| Place: | Henfenfeld | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 29 '47.4 " N , 11 ° 23' 31.2" E | |
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The Castle Henfenfeld , even Pfinzingschloss called, is a hilltop castle in Henfenfeld in Nuremberg County , which built around 1200 in the late Middle Ages various seat Reichsministerialer was until 1530 in the possession of the Pfinzings Henfenfeld came. The buildings of the well-preserved property, which has been privately owned again since 1983, have largely retained their appearance from the 16th century, while the landscape garden is a nationally significant example of the horticultural art of the early 19th century. Henfenfeld Castle should not be confused with the Pfinzing Castle in Feucht.
history
feudalism
The castle was built around 1200 and was initially owned by the von Henfenfeld family of ministers. In the late 14th and early 15th centuries, the castle changed hands frequently until it went to the Lords of Egloffstein from 1405 to 1530 .
In 1530 Martin I. Pfinzing acquired the castle. It passed into the possession of an old Nuremberg patrician family , after whom it is occasionally called Pfinzingschloss up to the present day . At the beginning of their manorial rule, Henfenfeld was also destroyed by the Second Margrave War and, like many other facilities in Middle Franconia, was burned down in 1553 when margrave troops invaded, whose partisan Hans von Egloffstein saw himself being deprived of his own by the Pfinzings. The most famous family representative and lord of the castle was Paul Pfinzing (1554–1599). The Pfinzings von Henfenfelds brought the castle into a family foundation (called Vorickung in the Nuremberg patriciate ), which was administered by the family elder. They remained the lords of the castle until the main branch of the family died out in 1764, after which the administration fell to the widow's brothers, a née Haller von Hallerstein .
Aristocratic-bourgeois hybrid
The Nuremberg merchant Karl Benedikt Schwarz acquired the manor in 1817, whereupon the Bavarian king ennobled him to exercise it. He managed his property in a newly established family foundation, "whose property rights only expired with the legal repeal of the entails in 1919." The foundation property was then divided between the brothers Paul August Benedikt von Schwarz, who received Artelshofen , and Benedikt Gottlieb, who took over Henfenfeld. In the 135 years that the Schwarz Herren family was at Henfenfeld, the property was renovated and redesigned many times, especially between 1826 and 1838, so that the baroque garden became a contemporary landscape garden .
Civil society
In the 1920s, the von Schwarz family ran a restaurant on the upper floor and in 1929 they left premises to the Nazi teachers' association for training purposes. In 1939, a camp for the female Reich Labor Service was set up in the castle .
The era of those from Schwarz auf Henfenfeld ended with the purchase by the Deutsche Bundesbahn in 1952. Until it was re-privatized in 1983, lessons at a federal railway school took place in the buildings.
After the facility was briefly used again under public law from 1989 to 1995 as a transitional camp for repatriates, it has been used for commercial purposes directly since then. In the second decade of the 21st century, the castle is also used for cultural events, but "mainly to accommodate business premises". In addition, the well-preserved castle, largely true to the original appearance of the 16th century, with its newly created palace park in the early 19th century, which is "of great supraregional importance from a garden conservation point of view", is of tourist and cultural interest. A restaurant is run on the ground floor to entertain the guests.
Web links
- Henfenfeld Castle ( Pfinzingschloss ) on the Burg-HP
- Henfenfeld Castle on the community HP
- Henfenfeld Castle on burgen-web.de
- Henfenfeld Castle on herrensitze.com
References and comments
- ↑ herrensitze.com: Artelshofen Castle
- ↑ a b Timeline of the history on the castle HP
- ↑ a b c d herrensitze.com: Henfenfeld Castle ; on pfinzingschloss.de its use by the railway is dated from 1945-83