Wiesau Castle
The expired Castle Wiesau was located in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Wiesau in the Tirschenreuth district .
history
Wiesau was first mentioned in 1245 when a “Perchtoldus de Marchausen” sold several farms and an inn in “Altenwisa”. As Leuchtenberger ministerials are 1,282 "C. (Chunradus) de Wisa et B. (Bero) called fratre ejus ”. With the permission of their liege lord, the brothers donated several imperial fiefs to the Waldsassen monastery . Until 1291 you were named as witnesses in several legal transactions. Then their tracks are lost. In 1297 Waldsassen in Wiesau bought properties from a Voitsberg ministerial. In 1327 a "Heinrich Stuergrans" renounced his claims in Wiesau in favor of the monastery after a 25-year legal dispute.
Wiesau Castle was mentioned in the 16th and 17th centuries and was probably a fief of the Leuchtenbergers. After Wiesau came fully into the possession of the Waldsassen monastery, a penal court was founded there. 1366 "Peter von Wondreb" was mentioned as a judge. Presumably the castle was the seat of the court. Due to a lack of money, the Wiesau monastery had to sell twice to local aristocrats, in 1348 to Konrad Heckel von Erbendorf and his sons Ulrich and Fritsch and in 1350 to Albrecht Nothaft von Thierstein, but it was able to buy back the property again and again. Sure news from Wiesau Castle dates back to 1546, when the "Blochwerk" in Wiesau on the road to Fuchsmühl was named in the Waldsassener stand book. In the description “Leonhard Höffers Wittib and Erben uff dem Blochwergkh” were mentioned (Wiesau No. 3). The "high room", presumably with a stone substructure, had two wooden floors (hence Blochwerk) and was surrounded by a pond all around. Because of the mentioned bourgeois owners, it can be assumed that the court had already been relocated and that the building no longer had a military function. The ring moat was no longer available in 1618. The "Höflers" were proven to be the owners of the so-called Höfer-Hof until 1635.
Wiesau Castle today
The Burgstall on the eastern edge of Wiesau was still recognizable on the local newspaper from 1840. In the 20th century, everything there was built over with residential and farm buildings. Today there is a wall in the south or west of the former complex, which at that time served as a pond dam.
literature
- Ulrich Kinder (2013): The fortifications in the Tirschenreuth district . (= Work on the archeology of southern Germany. Volume 28), (pp. 200–253). Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach. ISBN 978-3-933474-82-7 .
- Adalbert Busl ; Manfred Steinberger (1984): Chronicle of the Wiesau market. A history book and reference work about Wiesau. Wiesau community.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 54 ′ 39.6 ″ N , 12 ° 11 ′ 28.6 ″ E