Obersulzbürg castle ruins

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Obersulzbürg castle ruins
Alternative name (s): Obersulzbürg Castle
Creation time : 1300 to 1400
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Parts of the curtain wall, wall towers
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Mühlhausen- Sulzbuerg
Geographical location 49 ° 10 '56.9 "  N , 11 ° 24' 32.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 10 '56.9 "  N , 11 ° 24' 32.6"  E
Height: 567  m above sea level NN
Obersulzbürg castle ruins (Bavaria)
Obersulzbürg castle ruins

The Obersulzbürg castle ruins , also known as Obersulzbürg Castle , are the ruins of a hilltop castle at 567  m above sea level. NN high mountain plateau of the Sulzbürg above the district Sulzbürg of the municipality Mühlhausen in the Upper Palatinate district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria .

history

The castle was built in the 13th century by the Lords of Sulzbürg, who were ministerials of the Holy Roman Empire and later named themselves after Wolfstein von Wolfstein Castle , and was part of the Sulzbürg-Pyrbaum rule . In the 16th century the castle was expanded like a castle , destroyed in 1634 and rebuilt.

Sulzbürg as Bavarian cabinet rule

After the Wolfstein family died out, the castle was used as an apartment for officials. The first Bavarian administrator to take office in Sulzbürg Castle was Johann Franz Balthasar von Griesenbeck , Freiherr von Griesenbach (1698–1751). He allowed Catholic priests in the otherwise evangelical Sulzbürg to hold mass in a room in the castle. In 1745 there was a permanent castle chaplain , although the service continued to have a private character. By decree of the court chamber president, Max Emanuel Graf von Törring-Jettenbach , two Capuchin priests and one lay brother were appointed as chaplains on October 31, 1750 . On May 22nd, 1751 they were allowed to take a house in the castle district as an apartment, but it was forbidden to build a convent here. There was also a house chapel here, which replaced the church service room in the castle. In 1756 this was also replaced by the construction of the Catholic Church of Our Lady of Sorrows .

In the course of secularization in 1804, the castle was sold to private individuals for demolition.

description

The plateau of the Schlossberg is divided into three parts by medieval neck ditches . On the largest, the western part, there are two churches and a school today. The Niedersulzbürg castle stables are located on the smallest eastern part . The middle, tongue-like protruding part is used for agriculture. A protruding S-ledge accompanies the edge wall, which may be part of a prehistoric fortification. Many prehistoric fragments can be found here, including those from the Urnfield and La Tène periods , as well as an imperial fibula. Today parts of the curtain wall , two semicircular towers and the moat are still preserved from the former castle complex .

Watercolor of Sulzbürg Castle, around 1885, by Joseph Andreas Weiß

literature

  • Sixtus Lampl : Upper Palatinate . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume III ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52394-5 .
  • Herbert Rädle: Castles and fortress stables in the Neumarkt district . Published by the district of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Neumarkt o. J., ISBN 3-920142-14-4 , pp. 114–116.
  • Johann Kirchinger: Prayer and Violence in Public. Denominational perceptions of space in the conflict between Capuchins and Protestants in Sulzbürg and Pyrbaum in the second half of the 18th century. In Tobias Appl; Manfred Knedlik (Ed.), Upper Palatinate Monastery Landscape. The monasteries, monasteries and colleges of the Upper Palatinate. Pp. 291 - 323. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7917-2759-2 .

Web links

Commons : Obersulzbürg Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Armin Stroh : The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of the Upper Palatinate. (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 3). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1975, ISBN 3-7847-5030-3 , p. 206.