Mühltroff Castle
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| Alternative name (s): | Mühltroff Castle | |
| Creation time : | 10th to 11th century, first mentioned as a castle in 1349 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, location | |
| Conservation status: | Today's palace construction | |
| Standing position : | Nobles, counts | |
| Place: | Mühltroff | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 32 '25.7 " N , 11 ° 55' 48.2" E | |
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The castle Mühltroff is a former castle and later chateau in Mühltroff (August-Bebel-Straße) in Vogtlandkreis in Saxony . The Mühltroff Castle is the landmark of the town.
history
The castle was probably in the 10th to 11th centuries to strengthen the rule of German Kaiser , the knights to protect against attacks by the Sorbs with their fixings mortgaged founded.
Before 1274, the Mühltroff rule was owned by the Lords of Lobdeburg . In 1349 the castle, called "castrum", was mentioned as a Meißnisches fiefdom in Friedrich des Strengen's fief book and is the seat of the bailiff of Plauen , lord of "Muldorf".
In 1357 the Plauen bailiffs had to hand over the castle to the Wettin margrave brothers Balthasar and Wilhelm , who then enfeoffed various vassal families with it. In 1380 the castle was burned down in the Guttenberg feud .
From 1436 to 1591 the castle and the rulership were owned by the nobles von Sack and then passed to the von Schönberg and von Lindemann families until the von Mandelsloh family took over the castle in 1601 .
From 1604 until it died out in Mühlhausen in 1775, the castle and the rulership were owned by the von Bodenhausen family and later by the von Kospoth family from Thuringia . From 1790 Imperial Count Otto Carl Erdmann von Kospoth took over the castle and manor . Until the great fire in 1817, there were further changes of ownership, then in 1822 the Counts of Hohenthal-Püchau took over the castle and the property.
From 1923 to 1939 the castle served as a rest home for the girls' school in Plauen until it came into the possession of the city of Mühltroff as a donation in 1940 and was then temporarily used as a warehouse for the children's area.
From 1949 to 1989 the castle, which was made public property of the GDR , was used as a residential building until it came back into Mühltroff's possession after the fall of the Wall .
Todays use
The manor house was sold privately in 1999 as the only part of the castle and contains modern apartments.
As the cultural center of the place, the castle, which can be visited during guided tours, offers rooms for a wide range of club and exhibition activities, as well as a wide range of events, with the “black kitchen” particularly worthy of mention.
description
The castle was founded as a low castle on a green stone cliff as a round defense and watch tower surrounded by moats , around which residential and farm buildings as well as a manor were built over the centuries .
The main building of the castle dates from the 16th and 17th centuries, when a lot was built. Further renovations took place after the fire in 1817 and the castle tower was redesigned between 1820 and 1837 and 1856.
literature
- M. Johann August Möbius: Historically diplomatic news from Vogtland , 1760
- Carl Herrmann Richter: The Mühltroff Lordship and its owners , 1857
- Max Frotscher: From the history of Mühltroff , Festschrift Bezirksturnfest, 1931
- Horst Däumer: Mühltroff and his castle
- City archive of the city of Mühltroff
Web links
- Mühltroff Castle
- Mühltroff Castle on Sachsens-Schlösser.de