Hungerberg Castle
| Hungerberg Castle | ||
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 Hungerberg |
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| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Bochov | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 9 '6 " N , 13 ° 2' 30" E | |
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Hungerberg Castle is a ruined castle southwest of Bochov (Buchau) on the Hladový vrch ( Hungerberg ) in Karlovarský kraj , Czech Republic .
history
The castle was built shortly before 1350 by the brothers Boresch V the Elder and Slauko V von Riesenburg . The castle was not only intended to protect the newly emerging town of Buchau, it was also the administrative center of the Hungerberg rule of the Lords of Riesenburg. After the lost battle in 1406, King Wenzel IV moved into the Hungerberg rulership with Buchau and also the Bečov rule and gave them to Ulrich von Hasenburg as a fief. In 1410 Heinrich X. von Plauen bought both estates from him. Heinrich's mother Anna was from the Riesenburger family. Heinrich X was appointed by Wenceslas to keep Eger in 1413 and in May 1425 to be court judge by the new Bohemian King Sigismund .
When the young Meissen Burgrave Heinrich II von Hartenstein, of the Meinheringer family, fell in the battle of Aussig against the Hussites on June 15 or 16, 1426 , the Saxon Elector Friedrich the Controversial took all the possessions of the Burgrave in the area of the Mark Meissen in possession. At the same time, the Schönburgers seized the county of Hartenstein on the Zwickauer Mulde. Independently of this, King Sigismund set Heinrich X in the office of Burgrave of Meißen on July 21, 1426 and enfeoffed him with the county of Hartenstein. Heinrich I, as he now called himself Burgrave of Meißen and Lord von Hartenstein, complained in vain. In retrospect, King Albrecht II confirmed the created situation with the arbitration award of Pressburg in 1439. Heinrich only had the title.
His son Heinrich II, originally a partisan of King Georg von Podiebrad , dropped out after 1459 in the Treaty of Eger between Bohemia and Saxony and was one of the leading figures in the "Catholic League of Men" and the "rebels" who opposed the Bohemian king Matthias Corvinus supported. In 1469 he devastated Útvina , the economic center of the later rule of Theusing . In return, Georg von Podiebrad burned down the city of Buchau and the castle on the Hungerberg. The reconstruction of the city began immediately and was supported by the new King Wladislaw II from 1471 . The castle on the Hungerberg was not rebuilt. Instead, a new castle was built near the city, Neuhartenstein Castle in memory of the lost Hartenstein rule. It became the new center of rule, from then on Heinrich II called himself Herr zu Neuhartenstein.
Today there are only remains of fortifications and a deep moat on the Hungerberg.
literature
- Berthold Schmidt : Burgrave Heinrich IV of Meissen, Colonel Chancellor of the Crown of Bohemia and his government in the Vogtlande. Griesbach, Gera 1888.
- Berthold Schmidt: The Russians. Genealogy of the entire Reuss family older and younger line, as well as the extinct Vogtslinien zu Weida, Gera and Plauen and the Burgraves of Meißen from the House of Plauen. Weber, Schleiz 1903.
- Johannes Richter: On the genealogy and history of the Burgraves of Meißen and Counts to Hartenstein from the older Plauen house. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter. Vol. 38, Issue 5, 1992, ISSN 0486-8234 , pp. 299-303.
