Oberndorf Castle

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The expired Oberndorf Castle was in the Oberndorf district of the Upper Palatinate municipality of Kemnath in the Tirschenreuth district .

history

The family of the later Counts of Oberndorff goes back to a ministerial family of the Landgraves of Leuchtenberg , who had their headquarters here. For the first time in 1244 a Chunradus de Oberndorf is a witness in a document from Landgrave Gebhard III. Led by Leuchtenberg, with whom he transfers his farm in Masch to the Waldsassen monastery . In 1281 Landgrave Friedrich II pledged his castle on the Kleiner Kulm to the Burgrave of Nuremberg and sold it in full in 1282; This fiefdom also included the castle of Friedrich von Oberndorff from the Mockersdorf line , who also sold his property here to the burgrave of Nuremberg in 1298. In 1286 another Chunradus from Oberndorf with the name decanus (= dean) is mentioned. As a result, members of the Oberndorffer family appear in various functions (e.g. as servants of the Bishop of Bamberg or the Michelfeld Monastery , judge of the Speinshart Monastery , Landschreiber von Eschenbach ) and with different possessions (e.g. in Oberndorf, Weyern, Kirchentumbach, Wirbenz, Berndorf in the parish of Kemnath). In 1283 Oberndorf was sold to the Wittelsbach family and appeared in 1285 in the Bavarian Duke Surbar as Oberndorf curia villicalis… Ibidem duo foeda . There is no longer any talk of a castle, but only of the Meierhof .

St. George's Church in Oberndorf

Location and appearance

The castle in Oberndorf no longer exists; the church of St. Georg in Oberndorf, which dates back to the 12th century, is probably the former castle church. H. The castle should also come from this time. In a proof of nobility for the Oberndorfer submitted in 1573 it is recorded that the castle square surrounded by a moat still exists. And: those of Oberndorff (supposedly) had their own entrance through a corridor from the seat into the churches. Ir coat of arms is still found in churches today.

The location of the castle is assumed to be west of the churchyard, traces of it are no longer preserved. It could have been a Weiherburg or a residential tower surrounded by a dry moat.

literature

  • Ralf Fetzer (2005): The Counts of Oberndorff. Noble worlds between Upper Palatinate and Upper Rhine (p. 180). Edingen-Neckarhausen: Edition Ralf Fetzer. ISBN 3-9809492-1-4 .
  • Ulrich Kinder (2013): The fortifications in the Tirschenreuth district . (= Work on the archeology of southern Germany. Volume 28), (pp. 173–175). Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach. ISBN 978-3-933474-82-7 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '59 "  N , 11 ° 52' 3.7"  E