Wildstein Castle

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Wildstein Castle
Burgstall Wildstein (2012)

Burgstall Wildstein (2012)

Alternative name (s): Wildstein manor
Creation time : 1355
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall, a few remains of the tower and the wall
Standing position : Manor
Place: Wildstein
Geographical location 49 ° 31 '15 "  N , 12 ° 24' 28"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '15 "  N , 12 ° 24' 28"  E
Height: 744  m above sea level NN
Wildstein Castle (Bavaria)
Wildstein Castle
Wildstein Castle (Murach District 1589)
Burgstall Wildstein (2010)

The Wildenstein Castle was first mentioned in the early 14th century. Today the facility near Wildstein , municipality of Teunz in the Upper Palatinate district of Schwandorf , is only preserved as a remnant of a castle stable .

Geographical location

The remains of the Wildstein castle stable are located 744 m above sea level on a hill, southwest of the village of Wildstein . The remains of the facility can be reached from the site in ten minutes. When the view is clear, the visitor has a wonderful panoramic view of the "forest humps" of the Upper Palatinate Forest .

history

First settlement

Nordgau referred to the area of ​​the central and northern Upper Palatinate around 1000 AD. The country was gradually settled (clearing settlements in the vicinity are: Zeinried , Kühried, Pullenried, Wildeppenried) also the regions into which the Slavs (Slavic settlements: Teunz , Gleiritsch ) had already penetrated from the east. Castles therefore secured the area from the east. The Upper Palatinate is therefore the region with the most castles in Germany. In the immediate vicinity of Wildstein were the castles Kunzenstein, today a castle stable about two kilometers northwest, Flossenbürg , Leuchtenberg , Trausnitz , Tännesberg , Gleiritsch (Castle Plassenberg) , House Murach (Obermurach) , Thanstein , Reichenstein near Stadlern and Frauenstein near Weiding . In the Middle Ages trade routes led through the area to the east. From the east, however, there were repeated incursions on the newly populated areas of the Bavarian Northern Gau . Wildstein Castle, like the other castle complexes, served the administration of the area, the protection and control of trade routes and the defense against invasions.

Lord of the castle on Wildstein

"On October 28, 1355, a certificate was issued at Wildstein Castle, according to which Egid Paulsdorfer zu dem Tennesberg and his wife sell the three odes to the Nesseltoch to their uncle Konrad the Kräzlein zum Wildstein". Heinrich von Wildstein, listed around 1300, can be attributed to Wildstein Castle in Skalna (near Eger ). State sovereignty and neck court were controversial in the 1950s. On October 4, 1356, district judge Otto der Zenger von Schwarzeneck decided in favor of Count Palatine Ruprecht the Younger. After "Knight Cunrad der Chraetzel" died, the Wildstein Manor was sold on March 27, 1373. Elspet Chrätzel transferred the property to Landgrave Johann von Leuchtenberg.

In 1379 Andre is the Zenger of Fronhof "pffleger ze Wildstain" . On July 1, 1409, Wildstein Castle was sold by Landgrave Johann von Leuchtenberg to Hermann den Frankengruner. This in turn gave it as a fief to Count Palatine Johann. Wildstein was a fiefdom of the Palatinate. In 1476 Jörg Rabe inherits half of the castle from his cousin Nikolaus Rabe. In 1488, in the description of the art monuments of Bavaria, Hager names Georg and Fritz Holtzschuher of Nuremberg as the owners of Wildstein. They had bought the Wildstein estate from Albrecht and Hans the Raven. As the owners of Wildstein, the Holzschuher had the obligation to "serve so not thvet" to the ruler of the Palatinate .

On July 23, 1499, Wildstein passed from Holzschuhern to Hainz Ochs, followed in 1507 by the Utz and Hanns Ochs brothers, who divided the property in 1520. 1525 are called "Florian vnd Hanns Ochs" . From 1548 "Florian Ochß zum Wildstain" is listed as a Landsasse alone. Jorg Ochs follows. On October 19, 1562, Hans Rüdiger and Hans Sigmundmachenwitz received half of Wildstein Castle. Since themachwitz had been given the imperial ban, Wolf Satzenhofer von Fuchsberg was appointed as feudal lord on Wildstein on September 12, 1564. He was used for Anna Ochs, the wife of the late Florian Ochs. Ann Ochs died in 1583. Since she had no male successors and the estate could not be given to female descendants, the Wildstein fiefdom was withdrawn and assigned to the Murach office. Since the Machwitz was granted imperial ban, it may be that in the year of the inheritance, i.e. 1562, the Wildstein property had already reverted to the Palatinate. In 1622, after the towns of Kühried, Wildstein and Eppenrieth, the following is noted: "These next three village farms fell over 60 years ago as an aperture fiefdom Churfrl. Pfalz."

Decay of Wildstein Castle

In 1589, Wildstein Castle is shown completely preserved on a map of the Murach office. In 1793 the building appears as a ruin on a map of the Pullenried parish. Around 1850 treasure digs took place on the site (see also legends). In 1905 the Burgstall Wildstein was declared a ground monument.

In May 1998, excavations began by members of the Society for Archeology in Bavaria eV The ruins of a late medieval flanking tower from the 1st half of the 15th century were excavated. Bernhard Klier (Wildstein) and Harald Schaller (Pfreimd) spent three years in their free time to uncover these remains of the wall and to document the results. In 1999 the fire or destruction layer was documented. In 2000, Klier and Schaller exposed a layer of fire to the west of the tower, and safety measures were carried out on the tower ruins.

Description of Wildstein Castle

Sketch of the Burgstall floor plan (1906)

The Burgstall is 744 meters above sea level on the summit of the Wildstein , near the village of Wildstein. It is the highest point in the municipality of Teunz, to which the village of Wildstein belongs today. The terrain slopes gently towards the northeast (Wildstein), steeply towards the south (Kühried) and west. There are several rocks on the top. In addition to the excavated remains of the tower and parts of the wall, the extent of the complex can be guessed from the soil conditions.

Say

In connection with the Wildstein Castle there are a number of legends that often have to do with treasures on the Wildstein. Treasure digs also took place on the site around 1850. Legends are e.g. B. The white Fraulein von Wildstein, The Sunday Child, The Venediger, The Mirror of the Earth.

  • Burgstall Wildstein (2015)

  • Wildstein Castle Stables

  • View towards Ödmiesbach (2015)

  • Wildstein summit (744 m)

literature

  • Georg Hager: The art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, VII District Office Oberviechtach, Munich 1906
  • Karl Bosl: Upper Palatinate and Upper Palatinate, History of a Region, Kallmünz 1978, ISBN 3-7847-1129-4
  • Emma Mages: Oberviechtach . Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Part Altbayern, issue 61. Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7696-9693-X , p. 141 ( digitized version - footnote 873).
  • Alois Jehl: Heimatsagen, 2nd edition, Kallmünz 1981. ISBN 3-7847-1133-2
  • Karl-Otto Ambronn: Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Part of Old Bavaria, Series II, Book 3, Landsassen and Landsassengüter of the Principality of the Upper Palatinate in the 16th century, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7696-9932-7
  • The Oberviechtach district in the past and present. Aßling / Obb. 1970.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bosl, Karl, Nordgau and Upper Palatinate as Reichsländer and territorial states, in: Oberpfalz and Oberpfälzer, Kallmünz 1978, p. 19 ff.
  2. ^ Hager, Georg, The Art Monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, VII District Office Oberviechtach, Munich 1906, p. 69
  3. ↑ Emma Mages: Oberviechtach . Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Part Altbayern, issue 61. Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7696-9693-X , p. 141 ( digitized version - footnote 873).
  4. ^ Hager, Georg, The Art Monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, VII District Office Oberviechtach, Munich 1906, p. 69
  5. ^ Regesta Boica, 9, 294
  6. ↑ Monumenta Boica, Vol. 27, 249
  7. ↑ Emma Mages: Oberviechtach . Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Part Altbayern, issue 61. Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7696-9693-X , p. 141-142 ( digitized version - footnote 873).
  8. ^ Hager, Georg, Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kingdom of Bavaria, p. 69
  9. ^ Amberg State Archives, Oberpfälzer Lehensurkunden, No. 4086 and 4087
  10. ↑ State Archives Amberg, Standbuch 73, 51
  11. ^ Hager, Georg, Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kingdom of Bavaria, p. 70
  12. ↑ State Archives Amberg, Upper Palatinate, feudal deeds 4088
  13. ↑ Ambronn, Karl-Otto, Historischer Atlas von Bayern, Teil Altbayern, Series II, Book 3, Landsassen and Landsassengüter of the Principality of the Upper Palatinate in the 16th Century, Munich 1982, p. 238
  14. ↑ Ambronn, p. 238
  15. ^ Hager, Georg, Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kingdom of Bavaria, p. 70
  16. ↑ Ambronn, p. 237
  17. ↑ State Archives Amberg, Upper Palatinate, feudal deeds No. 4099
  18. ↑ State Archives Amberg, Murach Care Office, 19
  19. ↑ Ambronn, p. 237
  20. ^ State Archives Amberg, Upper Palatinate, registry books 93; Mages Emma, ​​Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Oberviechtach, p. 143
  21. ↑ The following information can be found on a notice board on the Burgstall Wildstein. Status: 2010
  22. ↑ Jehl, Alois, Heimatsagen, 2nd edition, Kallmünz 1981.