Castle estates of the city of Kulmbach
The castle estates of the city of Kulmbach are fortified buildings dating back to the Middle Ages.
The castle estates initially had the importance of offering relatively comfortable accommodation to well-known local noble families who defended the town of Kulmbach and Plassenburg in the event of war . Later the representative character of the buildings prevailed, which also passed into bourgeois and municipal ownership.
Burggut Waaggasse 9 - the Fronfeste
The castle estate at Waaggasse 9 was already Fronveste at the time of the Peasants' War . It served as a prison until the 20th century . A prominent prisoner was Christian Wilhelm von Krohnemann , who achieved high dignity under Margrave Christian Ernst because he pretended to be able to produce gold . When his vertigo could no longer be maintained, he was tried. On April 27, 1686, he was brought from the Fronveste to the Galgenberg and hanged there. During National Socialism, political opponents and members of the Jewish community were taken into “ protective custody ” in the Fronfeste . After the war, the condemnation of the SPD chairman and second mayor Fritz Schönauer (1904–1950) caused unrest and demonstrations against the Allies.
Burggut Waaggasse 13
The castle property was initially in bourgeois hands, in 1430 Hans von Weyher was enfeoffed with it. After it was destroyed in the Federal State War , it was acquired by a city master , rebuilt, and thus came back into middle-class hands. In the middle of the 18th century the rather dilapidated building was sold cheaply to a city servant. Until it was used as a locksmith's shop in the 1930s, day laborers lived there almost exclusively. Today there is an architectural office in the building.
Burggut Bauergasse 4
Martin Förtsch von Thurnau was named as the first owner of the castle estate in 1398 . After the destruction on Konraditag 1553 , Caspar Vischer suggested rebuilding it. Today the building houses the Volkshochschule Kulmbach and the city archive.
Burggut Oberhacken 38
Today's view as "Schlösschen" can be traced back to the design of the facade by the Saltzmann family, who originally came from Nuremberg . The property with the Plassenburg in the background is one of the most popular motifs of local artists. In parlance, the term “ Künsberger Schlösschen” has caught on, although this is due to the Künsberg family being confused with the Saltzmann family. The coat of arms above the entrance portal was restored with false tinctures for the same reasons . Today the Kulmbach urban development administration can be found there.
Fortress Mountain Castle 2
This castle property was owned by various well-known local noble families, including the Plassenberg , von Aufseß , von Guttenberg and von der Grün families .
Burggut Obere Stadt 5 - Erbmarschallenamtshaus
In 1623 the house passed into the possession of the von Künsberg family , who at the same time took over the office of Hereditary Marshal for the Burgraviate of Nuremberg from the Förtsch von Thurnau and did not sell the house to civil ownership until 1784.
Burggut Oberes Stadtgässchen 1
The house was in the hands of the von Wirsberg family in the 16th century , who owned properties in Glashütten , Lanzendorf and Wildenstein .
Burggut Waaggasse 5
During renovation work in 2003, a cellar was discovered and researched under the castle property, which could be associated with the medieval synagogue at this point and thus with Jewish life in Kulmbach. The current building with its sweeping renaissance facade was built after the National War and was started in 1557. The owner and first resident of the facility was Johann Streitberger .
More castle estates
- Upper Town Castle 7
- Upper Town Castle 36
- Burggut Spiegel 12
- Grünwehr Castle Estate 1
See also
literature
- August Gebeßler : City and District of Kulmbach . The Art Monuments of Bavaria , Brief Inventories , Volume II . German art publisher . Munich 1958. p. 26f.
- Richard Lenker: The stately castle estates and free houses in the city of Kulmbach . In: History on the Obermain . Volume 12, yearbook 1979/80. Pp. 40-66.
- Wolfgang Schoberth and the project group "denkmal aktiv" of the Markgraf-Georg-Friedrich-Gymnasium Kulmbach: The castle estates - on the trail of Kulmbach's last riddles . Weißenstadt 2006.