Paulsdorf Castle

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Paulsdorf Castle
Panorama of Hiltersdorf

Panorama of Hiltersdorf

Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Paulsdorf near Freudenberg
Geographical location 49 ° 26 '42.1 "  N , 11 ° 56' 1.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '42.1 "  N , 11 ° 56' 1.6"  E
Height: 489  m above sea level NHN
Paulsdorf Castle (Bavaria)
Paulsdorf Castle

The Paulsdorf Castle is an abandoned hilltop castle in the Paulsdorf district of the Upper Palatinate municipality of Freudenberg in the Amberg-Sulzbach district of Bavaria . The castle is located on the Frottenberg, about 500 m northwest of Paulsdorf.

The castle was the ancestral home of Paul Strand , an important Bohemian aristocratic family, which is from 1190 to 1623, the year of the last Paul Dorfers called and temporarily such as the owner of many goods (. B. Burg Wernberg , Castle Naabeck , Castle Haselbach , Castle Hauzendorf ) and was entrusted with many functions (e.g. keeper of Burgtreswitz or Schwandorf , nine abbesses, several canons, standard-bearers in the battle of Hiltersried ). In 1190 a Rupert von Bogilsdorf is mentioned for the first time in a document.

In 1263 the family estates in Paulsdorf came to the Ensdorf monastery as a dowry from a Paulsdorf woman and Paulsdorf is still referred to as the Ensdorf manor in 1770. In 1332 Heinrich von Paulsdorf sells some goods in Paulsdorf and Hiltersdorf to Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian , from whom they came to the Palatinate Kurpräzipium .

literature

  • Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district . Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1991, p. 169.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frottenberg on Mapcarta , accessed on July 1, 2020th
  2. ^ Georg Leingärtner : Amberg district judge . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Old Bavaria, Issue 24). Munich 1971, ISBN 3-7696-9800-2 , p. 164 ( digitized version [accessed July 1, 2020]).
  3. ^ Georg Leingärtner : Amberg district judge . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Old Bavaria, Issue 24). Munich 1971, ISBN 3-7696-9800-2 , p. 65 ( digitized version [accessed July 1, 2020]).