Nittenau Castle Estate

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Former castle property

The Nittenau Castle Estate is located in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Nittenau in the Schwandorf district (Am Burghof 4) and was used to protect and defend the market.

history

The Bamberg ministerial family of the Nittenau can be found here around 1300 . The castle keepers were entitled to exercise lower jurisdiction . In 1316 the castle property was transferred to Ortlieb von Trübenbecken . After his death, his son Hans inherits the castle property, to which several farms and estates were transferred in 1361 by Count Palatine Ruprecht II . In 1380 the Trübenbeck disappeared from Nittenau. In 1427 Chunrat der Trautenberger is named as the owner of the castle property. 1462 the widow of Degenhart Hofer is mentioned here ; she sold the estate on December 13, 1469 to Count Palatine Otto II.

In the Landsassen register of 1488, the Zirkendorfer are named here as the owner of the castle estate. In 1507, Kuntz Arnold is named as the owner of the castle , who was also the owner of Neuhaus Castle . His sons Appolinaris and Alexander appear as country residents in 1525. In 1548 they shared their property, with Appolinaris receiving the Neuhaus festivities and Alexander the Nittenau market. Alexander can be traced on the castle estate until 1566, when his heirs followed and in 1579 Georg Arnold. He was succeeded by Christoph Alexanden von Bertholdshofen in 1576. His widow, through remarriage, gave the castle property to Lorenz Pogner von Mayrhoff . He sold it to Christoph Enzenberger on October 2, 1583. Since he was not aristocratic , he had to buy the freedom of the landed people and was able to do so on April 1, 1584. In 1615 his widow Verona, née Pilgel von Wetterfeld , is run as a castle assassin . On November 17, 1617, on the Kaufweg, the property in Nittenau passed to her cousin Hans Sigmund Oberländer von der Saal zum Klaffenberg .

At the beginning of the Thirty Years' War , Albrecht von Wildenstein, carer at Wetterfeld, reported that the buildings were in very poor condition. During the recatholization of the Upper Palatinate, Hans Sigmund Oberländer converted on March 12, 1629. According to the caretaker's report, he was a poor man of the nobility . When he died, he left two daughters of "vogtable" (= of age) who paid homage in 1652 . The castle estate was deserted and uninhabited between 1634 and 1643. In 1644 Hans Bernhard Ludwig von Maydorff wanted to lease it, but could not come to an agreement with the daughters of the Oberlander about the rent. Andre von Brand then received it on a lease basis, followed by Georg Reiser, husband of Elisabeth Oberländer. In 1660 the two daughters sold their estate to Hans Ludwig Wörner von Gossersdorf, who paid homage on June 21, 1661. Because of a fault of the Wörners, the estate then fell to Johann Maximilian Sattler zu Straubing . On March 20, 1677 it went to Captain Just Christian von Zwitterda on Kaufweg. Only after he converted to the Catholic faith could he be enrolled in 1679. On September 20, 1677, the Wetterfeld keeper announced that Zwitterda had repaired the castle property. After his death, it came through his widow and heir to Hans Georg Fels, who is named here as castle guardian in 1696. In 1709 it came from Joseph Christoph Anton Fels on Kaufweg to Johann Friedrich Graf von Aufseß , the vice-governor of Amberg. The latter sold the estate to Georg Melchior von Voithenberg in April 1719. This is followed by his widow in 1734 and his son Franz Joseph von Viothenberg in 1754. Both Count Aufseß and the Viothenbergs were always in dire financial straits. On June 12, 1799, the castle property passed from father to son Anton Voith von Voithenberg on Kaufweg.

However, the latter had overlooked the appointment of a confirmed court clerk for Nittenau. On December 21, 1810, patrimonial jurisdiction was withdrawn and the Wetterfeld district court was assigned. The market town of Nittenau bought the castle property in 1816 and converted it into a council and school building. The grounds belonging to the castle were "smashed", i. H. sold to individual citizens.

Burggut Nittenau today

The former castle estate building is a three- story hipped roof building . In the southern part there are the remains of a Romanesque residential tower. After the market fire on July 24, 1779, the castle was destroyed, but then rebuilt. In 1816, the upper floor was rebuilt so that the castle can be used as a town hall and school. The town hall has meanwhile been relocated to the former district court building (Richtstrasse 13).

literature

  • Ingrid Schmitz-Pesch: Roding. The care offices Wetterfeld and Bruck (pp. 309-312). (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern issue 44). Commission for Bavarian History, Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1986. ISBN 3-7696-9907-6 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 53.1 ″  N , 12 ° 16 ′ 14.7 ″  E