Neidstein Castle

Neidstein Castle
Neidstein castle ruins - view of the castle hill with the castle and the ruins immediately to the right of it from the south
Creation time :	probably around 1100
Castle type :	Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status:	ruin
Standing position :	Ministeriale
Place:	Etzelwang -Tabernackel
Geographical location	49 ° 32 '3.5 "  N , 11 ° 36' 18.4"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '3.5 "  N , 11 ° 36' 18.4"  E
Height:	527.5  m above sea level NN

View of the ruins of the summit castle above the castle

The castle Neidenstein is the ruins of a hilltop castle at 527.5  m above sea level. NN on the Schlossberg immediately behind Neidstein Castle south of the Tabernackel district of the Etzelwang municipality in the Amberg-Sulzbach district in Bavaria .

history

The castle was probably founded around 1100 by the Lords of Neidstein. In 1119 a Neipert Nitstein is mentioned as a Ministeriale of the Counts of Sulzbach and in 1240 and 1243 a Rupertus de Nietstein appears as an Reichsministeriale.

At the end of the 13th century after the Neidsteiners died out, the castle came to Ludwig the Bavarian after several changes of ownership in 1326 . After several pledges to various noble families, the castle was pledged on February 10, 1466 by Duke Ludwig to Hans von Brandt (Prantner). In 1504 the castle was destroyed by Duke Albrecht of Bavaria in the course of the Landshut War of Succession . The new castle was then built by Jobst von Brandt and completed in 1513.

Only a few remains of the ruins of the former castle are preserved, today the site is a monument to the “Castle ruins and Neidstein Castle; Ruin of the summit castle, around 1050; New Castle Elongated, slightly angled, two-storey and plastered solid building with saddle roof and stepped gables , connected to the northeast, so-called Swedish building, two-winged gate building with bay window and stepped gable; Outbuilding, single-storey, slightly angled gable roof building with half-timbered gable; Erected over parts of the medieval lower castle, the core around 1513, round tower with conical roof 1634, historicizing expansion and southern extension with two small polygonal corner cores 1855-60, further modifications in the early 20th century; with equipment; Gate construction, single-storey, plastered solid construction with hipped roof , mid-18th century; Castle wall , some with blind niches , at the same time with embedded inscription stone, marked 1513; Box building, two-storey, plastered solid construction with high pitched roof and gable hatches, 16./17. Century "as well as ground monument D-3-6435-0148" Archaeological findings of the Middle Ages and the early modern times in the area of ​​the castle and the castle ruins Neidstein "recorded by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

literature

• Karl Wächter, Günter Moser: On the trail of knights and nobles in the Amberg-Sulzbach district - castles, palaces, noble residences, hammer estates . Buch & Kunstverlag Oberpfalz, Amberg 1992, ISBN 3-924350-26-4 , pp. 90-91.
• Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district . Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1991, pp. 161–168.
• Georg Dehio : Bavaria V: Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate, manual of German art monuments . Drexler Jolanda, Hubel Achim (arrangement), Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1991.

Web links

• Entry on Neidstein Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
• Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Location of the castle ruins in the Bavaria Atlas
2. ↑ List of monuments for Etzelwang (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 133 kB)