Castle estates of the city of Bayreuth

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Nanckenreuther Burggut, behind the towers of the town church
Castle estate Plassenberg

The castle estates of the city of Bayreuth , also known as Freihäuser , were privileged buildings, especially of local noble families , near the city ​​wall of Bayreuth . They are part of the historic city center . Ornamental and replicas that were never used as residential buildings or for defense are not listed .

Tax-exempt, privileged castle estates

In contrast to the castle estates of the city of Kulmbach , for example , the Bayreuth castle estates had no function to defend the city. Only the first nobles enfeoffed by the Nuremberg burgraves could have been designated as castle men . The castle estates of Bayreuth are characterized by their special privileged position as free houses . They were exempt from all city taxes.

Aristocratic property at the town church

The Freihäuser, which were named after their aristocratic owners, are located on Kanzleistraße and Sophienstraße near the Heilig Dreifaltigkeit town church . Namely there are the Nanckenreuther Haus from 1439 (Kanzleistraße 15), the Seckendorffer Haus (Kanzleistraße 13) and the Plassenberger Hofstatt (Sophienstrasse 22), a little later the Sparnecker Haus (Sophienstrasse 29) was named.

Location of the Sparneck castle estate

The Sparnecker Burggut was a corner house. It was not mentioned in 1439 and before 1490 it was just a simple barn, although it was expressly designated as a castle estate. The sources show that Hans von Sparneck acquired the estate and that his son "handed it over" (expanded?) For himself and his brother in 1490. Already in 1490 Kastner Hans Sendelbeck bought the house from Georg von Sparneck zu Uprode and in 1523 there was a legal dispute between Sendelbeck and the city, whereby the castle character and the tax exemption were confirmed again. However, it is difficult to put the house on a par with the other castle estates in terms of importance. On October 23, 1963, the city council of Bayreuth named a spur road on the Red Hill after the Sparneckers, the Sparneckerweg, which branches off from Preuschwitzer Strasse to the north. The area on which the castle estate stood is built on with newer houses.

Trivia

The Nanckenreuther house was leased in 1976 from a local brewery. Since then it has often been referred to as the "Braunbierhaus".

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ H. Fischer: Häuserbuch der Stadt Bayreuth (Part 2) , Bayreuth 1991, p. 835 ff.
  2. Eva-Maria Bast, Heike Thissen: Bayreuth Secrets . 1st edition. Bast Medien Service, Überlingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816796-1-8 , p. 134 ff .

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