Castle estates of the city of Bayreuth
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.
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
- August Gebeßler : City and District of Bayreuth . The Art Monuments of Bavaria , Brief Inventories , VI. Band . German art publisher . Munich 1959. p. 56ff.
- Philipp Hirschmann: The castle estates in Bayreuth . In: Archives for history and antiquity of Upper Franconia . Volume 30, Issue 2. Bayreuth 1928. pp. 178-187.
- Karl Müssel : Bayreuth in eight centuries . Bindlach 1993. p. 45.
- Hermann Freiherr von Reitzenstein: The castle estates and free houses in the city of Bayreuth . In: Archives for history and antiquity of Upper Franconia . tape 15 , no. 1 . Bayreuth 1881, p. 61-113 .
Individual evidence
- ^ H. Fischer: Häuserbuch der Stadt Bayreuth (Part 2) , Bayreuth 1991, p. 835 ff.
- ↑ Eva-Maria Bast, Heike Thissen: Bayreuth Secrets . 1st edition. Bast Medien Service, Überlingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816796-1-8 , p. 134 ff .