Melteuer Castle

The lost Melteuer castle was in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Pechbrunn in the Tirschenreuth district .

history

The former moated castle was located in an area north of Pechbrunn, which was called Teichelberg in the Middle Ages . In 1289 Heinrich II. Von Liebenstein sold half of the villages in this area to the Waldsassen monastery and half to the Eger ministerial Arnold von Öd . The first mention of Melteuer dates from 1354, because at that time the monastery enfeoffed the Marquis Raspo de Meltewer with villages north of the Teichelberg. The father of the Marquis Raspo is said to have already sat on Melteuer, so the castle must have been built earlier. Then the Rasp move to Redwitz until a Johann Rasp von Redwitz claimed the Teichelberg for himself in 1507. Then, in a report by the Waldsassen forestry master Sieder, there is again talk of Melteuer ( a desolate Zw der Melteuer has been ain wassrwolberg on which a strong pothole confessed ). This is the last mention of the castle. In 1555 there is a report of a pond with a dam and a deserted mill that used the pond as a mill pond after the castle fell into disrepair.

Construction

This Niederungsburg must have been built before 1354. Possibly the castle was built to monitor the old road to Eger. No statement can be made about the appearance, except that the building must have been in a pond and at least partly made of wood ( plochwerk ). The castle may have been near the property at Steinlohweg 2, as this corridor was formerly called Melteuerin or Malteracker (today under the western entrance from the B 15 to Pechbrunn).

literature

• Ulrich Kinder (2013): The fortifications in the Tirschenreuth district . (= Work on the archeology of southern Germany. Volume 28), (pp. 178–180). Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach. ISBN 978-3-933474-82-7 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 23.8 "  N , 12 ° 10 ′ 24.9"  E