Waldau Castle (Vohenstrauss)

Waldau Castle
	Waldau Castle (Vohenstrauss)
Creation time :	around 1215
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Received or received substantial parts
Standing position :	Ministeriale
Construction:	Humpback cuboid, quarry stone
Place:	Waldau - Vohenstrauss
Geographical location	49 ° 38 '13 " N , 12 ° 18' 28" E Coordinates: 49 ° 38 '13 " N , 12 ° 18' 28" E

The Burg Waldau is a medieval hilltop castle in Waldau , a district of Vohenstrauß in Upper Palatinate Forest .

history

Builder and first owner of the castle was the Ministerialengeschlecht the Waldauer that the Burg Schellenberg built. In the early 13th century, first they built the castle keep , 1350, they extended him with the Palas and spiked existing buildings. In the 15th century, the Waldauer joined the two building units with an intermediate building.

At the beginning of the 14th century, half of the castle belonged to the Nothäfts after Albert von Nothracht had married a woman from the Waldau. This half came into the hands of King Ludwig IV in 1326 and was added to the Palatinate by the house contract of Pavia . 1394 enfeoffed Elector Rupprecht III. Tobias and Heinrich the Waldauer with the Veste Waldau, the blood court there and the wild ban . The last of this family was Jörg von Waldau. In 1545 he sold his property to Willibald von Wirsberg .

Stairway to Waldau Castle

For a short time from 1560 to 1562 the Köckritz owned the castle. After the Wirsbergers died out, Elector Ferdinand Maria von Bayern lent the manor to Field Marshal Adrian Freiherr von Enkevort . The Enckevort family were wealthy here until 1681. The son Ferdinand Franz Leopold von Enkevort sold the estate to Franz Ferdinand von Rummel in 1681.

The New Palace was built in the second half of the 17th century after parts of the castle had become dilapidated. In the 18th century, the keep and adjacent buildings were converted into a local church. In 1912 the place received a new church , the castle has not been used as a church since then. Today the castle is privately owned and can be visited on certain days.

Geotope

Serpentinite

Waldau Castle is built on serpentinite rocks. The bronzite- leading hardling's back is only exposed in a few places around the castle. The outcrops are largely overgrown. The rock is designated as a geotope and classified as important.

literature

Ursula Pfistermeister : Castles and palaces in the Upper Palatinate . Friedrich Pustet Verlag, Regensburg 1988, ISBN 3-7917-0876-7 , p. 161.

Individual evidence

↑ City of Vohenstrauß (Ed.): Vohenstrauss in the course of the times: local history on the history of the city on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of its first mention 1378–1978. Vohenstrauß 1978, pp. 58-59.
↑ Geotope: Schlossberg in Waldau (accessed on February 19, 2016)

Web links

Commons : Burg Waldau - Collection of images, videos and audio files

[1] City of Vohenstrauß (Ed.): Vohenstrauss in the course of the times: local history on the history of the city on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of its first mention 1378–1978. Vohenstrauß 1978, pp. 58-59.

[2] Geotope: Schlossberg in Waldau (accessed on February 19, 2016)