Störnstein Castle

Störnstein Castle
Burgstall Störnstein
Creation time :	12th to 13th centuries
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Störstein
Geographical location	49 ° 44 '1.4 "  N , 12 ° 12' 27.2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 44 '1.4 "  N , 12 ° 12' 27.2"  E

Location of the Störnstein castle stable

Coat of arms of the Stoer (third from the right) in the coat of arms frieze of the Kastl monastery

The castle Störnstein is an Outbound hilltop castle in the Upper Palatinate municipality Störnstein in Neustadt an der Waldnaab in Bavaria . The castle was the presumed ancestral seat of the Stör von Störnstein family . It has been falling off since the end of the 16th century.

Geographical location

In the description of the art monuments of Upper Palatinate & Regensburg , the remains of the castle are described as lying on a steep spur that protrudes in a south-easterly direction into the valley of the raft . The castle was separated from the hinterland by a three to five meter high step and a 15 meter wide neck ditch . Access was possible from the northeast. The castle area was 17 meters wide and 30 meters long, the small castle seems to have had an outer and inner courtyard. In the outer courtyard, near the gateway, was the Katharinenkapelle . The strong walls of the castle were still visible in the walls of the nave of this chapel, which was demolished in 1933. Today the castle has completely disappeared.

history

The name-giving noble family of the Stör can be traced back to the first half of the 12th century at the earliest. The castle is mentioned as the seat of the sturgeon as early as the 13th century; These are likely to have been ministerials or at least fiefs of the Counts of Sulzbach at that time, because Störnstein and Neustadt an der Waldnaab were owned by the Counts of Sulzbach; of these, the property was inherited by the Counts of Altendorf , who pledged it to the Counts of Ortenburg - Murach in 1232 . But that has not changed anything about the Stoer fief.

According to the Salbuch of Duke Ludwig der Strenge from 1270, he bought the property belonging to the castle ( castrum Stör ) Stör from Ulrich Stoer . From the Urbarium Bavariae transdanubiane (approx. 1285) it emerges that the property on the Waldnaab comes from the rule Störnstein (1285: Possessiones bonorum castri Sternstein - 1326 Officium Stoerenstein ) including Neustadt an der Waldnaab ( redditus Antique sive Nove Civitatis ) and the manor Rothenstadt ( Redditus bonorum in Rotenstat ) existed. Important documents were also issued on Störnstein. On February 28, 1311, Duke Ludwig of Upper Bavaria and Landgrave Ulrich von Leuchtenberg sealed a certificate from Ulrich von Waldau with the Waldsassen Monastery . In 1360 another document was issued between Landgrave Ulrich and Duke Ludwig auf Störnstein, with which he sold his Hardeck Castle to the monastery on April 24, 1316 .

Due to the Wittelsbach house contract from Pavia of 1329, Störnstein came together with Neustadt an der Waldnaab to the Palatinate line of the Wittelsbach family . Under the Wittelsbach family, the castle and the surrounding area were administered by keepers . In 1294, Konrad II von Tännesberg was a member of the Paulsdorf captain's family on the Störenstein. The Paulsdorfer are also mentioned several times afterwards as carers of Störnstein (1301 in a Reichenbacher document, 1302 Heinrich von Paulsdorf is mentioned in a Waldsassener document , 1304 Cunrad Paulsdorfer is mentioned here). In 1331 Konrad Steiner was a carer on Störnstein.

The further development of the area begins with the fact that on the Prince's Day of June 17, 1353, Count Palatine Ruprecht the Elder and his nephew Ruprecht the Younger ceded Störnstein and Neustadt to Emperor Charles IV , but were reintegrated into Bavaria in 1373; In terms of feudal rights, however, these areas remained with the Crown of Bohemia . In the Salbuch of 1366/68, castle hats are mentioned in Störnstein and Neustadt an der Waldnaab. In Störnstein, six castle men are named who were entitled to grain tithes, natural products and services. From then on, the fate of Störnstein runs parallel to that of Neustadt an der Waldnaab. Störnstein had the property of a pledge from the Bohemian crown, even if it was placed under the protection of the empire in 1518 by Emperor Maximilian I.

From Charles IV onwards, the Störnstein reign was administered by Bohemian aristocrats as officials of the emperor. In 1382 Hintzik Pflug zum Rabenstein was carer in Störnstein. In 1386 Selina von Freienstein appears as a judge for Störnstein (in 1386 the abbot Konrad I von Waldsassen bought the fortified domicile Freienstein near Beidl , today a district of Plößberg ), in 1391 Störnstein becomes a pledge from the Bohemian crown to the Hintzik plow Rabenstein given. 1408 Wolfhardt the Wolf Pfleger zum Störnstein and Niklas the Gleißenthaler Burgmann there. This is followed by Ameley Kagerin zum Störnstein , who acts as the mother for her sons Hintzik and Hans Pflug in 1408/09 . This Ameley first married a plow , then a Kagerer and finally (1410) Hans von Parsberg . His sister Veronika was married to Hans von Satzenhofen , who is later mentioned as Hauptmann zum Störnstein. In 1430 Hans von Parsberg is the owner († 1469), in 1434 Hans Satzenhofer is named as Captain zum Störstein. In 1451 Hans Klayner was the caretaker for the Störnstein. In 1463 the Pflug owners of Störnstein and Neustadt are again . The last of these is Sebastian Pflug von Rabenstein . For an advanced amount of money, the Bohemian King Georg von Podiebrad granted him and his son Hinzik Pflug von Rabenstein 1463 Störnstein and Neustadt for lifelong use. After the Cologne arbitration award of 1505, which marked the end of the Landshut War of Succession and through which the Young Palatinate was founded, Störnstein and Neustadt formed an enclave of the empire. Nothing changed in terms of the administration by Bohemian aristocrats when Störnstein passed to Heinrich von Guttenstein in 1514 , to his son Burian von Guttenstein in 1519 and then to Johann Georg von Heideck in 1540 . After the battle of Mühlberg (1547) this fell under imperial ban . His successor was Hans Ulrich von Heideck , who died in 1559 and left Störnstein to Wilhelm and Hans Georg von Heidecke .

From the Lords of Heideck, Ladislau von Lobkowitz , Supreme Court Master in the Kingdom of Bohemia, replaced the Störnstein pledge on October 4, 1562; the final transfer of ownership did not take place until 1571, after an agreement had been reached on the Heideck property. First the rule was handed over for ten years. On September 25th, 1575, Emperor Maximilian II inherited Störnstein to Ladislau von Lobkowitz with the consent of the Bohemian estates . On October 17, 1623 Zdenko Adalbert von Lobkowitz was raised to the rank of prince. The princeed county of Störnstein was under Emperor Friedrich III. incorporated into the Bavarian Empire on August 23, 1641. The capital was Neustadt an der Waldnaab with its newly built castle, which was converted into a residence at the end of the 17th century.

Extract from Christoph Vogel's map of Störnstein and Hafendeck

The Störnstein castle stable has been deserted since 1581, after the Heidecker family moved their administrative headquarters to Neustadt. In 1607, with the permission of Ladislav Popel von Lobkowitz, the stones of the castle were carried away to Neustadt an der Waldnaab for the construction of a new church tower. According to the map by Christoph Vogel from 1600, there are only remains of the castle wall, while the castle chapel of St. Katharina is clearly recognizable. In the middle of the 17th century the castle was referred to as a "ruined castle". The last ashlar stones of the castle were used in the construction of the St. Salvator Church in Störnstein.

literature

• Felix Mader (arrangement): The art monuments of Upper Palatinate & Regensburg, Volume IX, District Office Neustadt an der Waldnaab. 1907 (reprinted by R. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 1981), p. 234.
• Adolf Wolfgang Schuster : 850 years of Störnstein . Störstein parish, Störstein 1991.

Web links

Commons : Burgstall Störnstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Felix Mader, 1907, p. 234.
2. ↑ Felix Mader, 1907, p. 122.
3. ↑ Dieter Bernd: Vohenstrauss . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria , part of Old Bavaria . Series I, issue 39. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7696-9900-9 , p. 29 ( digitized version ).
4. ^ Heribert Sturm: Neustadt an der Waldnaab - Weiden. Parkstein Community Office, County of Störnstein, Floß Care Office (Flossenbürg) . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Series I Altbayern, Issue 47). Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7696-9912-2 , p. 117 , above ( digitized version [accessed December 11, 2019]).
5. ^ Heribert Sturm: Neustadt an der Waldnaab - Weiden. Parkstein Community Office, County of Störnstein, Floß Care Office (Flossenbürg) . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Series I Altbayern, Issue 47). Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7696-9912-2 , p. 24 , above ( digitized version [accessed December 11, 2019]).
6. ↑ Dieter Bernd: Vohenstrauss . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria , part of Old Bavaria . Series I, issue 39. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7696-9900-9 , p. 75 ( digitized version ).
7. ↑ Dieter Bernd: Vohenstrauss . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria , part of Old Bavaria . Series I, issue 39. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7696-9900-9 , p. 31 ( digitized version ).
8. ↑ Wilhelm Brenner-Schäffer: History and topography of the city of Neustadt an der Waldnab, and his rule of the former lordly county of Störnstein. Negotiations of the historical association of Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, Volume 24, 1866, p. 36 (reprint from 2000).
9. ↑ Baptist Fröhlich: Störnstein - a castle and a rule. Oberpfälzer Heimat , 1958, Volume 3, pp. 87-92.
10. ↑ Baptist Fröhlich: Störnstein - a castle and a rule. Oberpfälzer Heimat , 1958, Volume 3, p. 120.
11. ^ Felix Mader (arrangement): The art monuments of Upper Palatinate & Regensburg, Volume IX, District Office Neustadt an der Waldnaab. 1907 (reprinted by R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1981), p. 234.
12. ^ Leonhard Bär: Dispute about the Church of St. Salvator near Störnstein. Home pages for the upper Nordgau , 1935/36, 13./14. Volume, pp. 35–40.