Nimmersath Castle
| Nimmersath Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Wilhelmsburg Castle | |
| Creation time : | First mentioned in 1432 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Płonina | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 54 '14.9 " N , 16 ° 0' 13.6" E | |
| Height: | 550 m | |
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The castle Nimmersath or the William Castle ( Polish Zamek Niesytno ) are the ruins of a hilltop castle and later chateau above Płonina in Gmina Bolków in Jawor County . The castle is on the road from Bolkenhain to Hirschberg , in the east of the Bober-Katzbach Mountains .
history
Nimmersath Castle was first mentioned in 1432 in a letter from Wroclaw Bishop Konrad von Oels to the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order . He informed the master of the order that the castle was owned by Hayn von Czirn ( Tschirn ) and the base of the Hussites .
The medieval castle had an octagonal tower. The German name of the castle and the place was probably derived from the time when the castle belonged to robber knights like Hayn von Czirn / Tschirn. Likewise, the term fear angle ( Polish Zakątek Strachu ) for the neighboring valley gorge near Wüstenröhrsdorf (1937–45: Röhrsdorf ) near Landeshut (today: Rędziny near Kamienna Góra ) probably comes from this time .
From before 1471 to 1660, the castle and town belonged to the Zedlitz family as a fief of the Leubus monastery . While the original hilltop castle fell into disrepair, Georg von Zedlitz built a renaissance castle below the medieval castle in 1545. The walls of the old castle were probably used for storage and economic purposes. Since the castle fell into disrepair around 1800, it was made habitable again by the noble von Graeve and expanded with the addition of a western and an eastern wing. After further changes of ownership, it was rebuilt in 1843 and 1871. Nimmersath Castle and Manor District had been called "Wilhelmsburg" since 1873. In 1909 it was owned by Eberhard von Saurma -Jeltsch.
In 2012, work began on the reconstruction of a residential building in the medieval castle.
Castle Gate, 2007
Former palace of the castle, west view, 2006
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Individual evidence
- ^ Colmar Grünhagen : The Hussite Fights of the Silesians , 1420-1435 . Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau 1872 ( online ).
- ↑ a b Hugo Weczerka : Handbook of historical sites , Silesia, p. 361 . Alfred Kröner Verlag , Stuttgart 1977.
- ^ A. Teichmann: Chronicle of the city of Bolkenhain in Silesia: From the oldest times to the year 1870 . Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand, 2004, p. 54 ( online ).