Castle fief

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Castle fief
Creation time : probably 13th century
Castle type : Spurburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Construction: overgrown foundation walls
Place: District of Lehen, municipality of Krummennaab
Geographical location 49 ° 49 ′ 50.6 "  N , 12 ° 6 ′ 56"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 50.6 "  N , 12 ° 6 ′ 56"  E
Height: 472  m
Lehen Castle (Bavaria)
Castle fief

The former Lehen Castle or today's Burgstall Lehen is located in the district of the same name in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Krummennaab in the Tirschenreuth district . The Burgstall is located on the northwestern edge of Lehen on the site of the castle's former Meierhof . At the south-eastern exit of Lehen, at the last property on the left, a path leads to the wooded hill that supported the former castle.

history

Because of its proximity to Trautenberg Castle, it can be assumed that Lehen Castle was also built by the Trautenberg family in the early 13th century. This castle can be seen as a fortified Vorwerk to Castle Trautenberg, which was subsequently awarded to related families and branch lines; hence the name Lehen . In 1431 the seat was named by its owner Konrad Ermesreuther . It can be assumed that this was given to the burgraves of Nuremberg as a fief. Eberhard von Streitberg resides here in 1486 and Leonhard von Streitberg in 1488 , who married Anna von Trautenberg . From then on, Lehen Castle remained in the possession of the Streitbergers until it died out in 1573. After the death of the last Streitberger, Paul von Streitberg , the castle fell back to the Burgraves of Nuremberg and they enfeoffed Paul's brother-in-law Heinrich von Trautenberg . Lehen Castle is managed from neighboring Reuth . In 1615, Wolf Heinrich von Streitberg turned fiefdom back into an independent country mess and in 1622 leased the estate to his mother. However, other authors name the Benkendörfer in possession of the estate as early as 1622 . They managed it until 1828. After that, the barons of Lindenfels on Thumsenreuth, Trautenberg and Altenstadt came into the possession of the manor Lehen; they are still the landowners there today.

In 1946, Lehen was incorporated into Krummennaab, after it had previously belonged to the municipality of Reuth near Erbendorf .

Location and building description

The artificial castle hill stands on a spur that drops into the Heinbach valley in the west and north. The square hill is surrounded by a wide ditch and another 2 m wide and up to 8 m high wall in front of it. There is an opening in the southeast corner, presumably the former castle gate. The overgrown foundations can be seen on the castle hill. The interior is separated again by a wall. Maybe there was a tower and a house (each 11 × 11 m). In the west of the tower hill there is a no vaulted cellar made of rubble stones , the western part of which has collapsed.

On a map from 1581 the castle appears as a square tower without a roof with broken wall crowns and a short, already collapsed wall. However, the Benkendörfer still call themselves the owners of the castri in 1733 , which suggests that the complex is still intact.

literature

  • Ulrich Kinder (2013): The fortifications in the Tirschenreuth district . (= Work on the archeology of southern Germany. Volume 28), (pp. 152–154). Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach. ISBN 978-3-933474-82-7 .

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