Burggriesbach castle stable

Burggriesbach castle stable
Behind the parish church in the middle of the picture was the castle that had been abandoned
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	Burgstall, only cellar vault (around 1937)
Standing position :	Local nobility
Place:	Burggriesbach
Geographical location	49 ° 7 '44.2 "  N , 11 ° 21' 33.5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '44.2 "  N , 11 ° 21' 33.5"  E
Height:	422  m above sea level NHN

The Burggriesbach castle stables are the remnants of a low castle in Burggriesbach , a district of Freystadt in the Neumarkt district in Upper Palatinate , that have disappeared completely .

Geographical location

The Niederungsburg was located on today's church square in Burggriesbach, immediately to the east of today's parish church of St. Gangolf.

Name interpretation

“Griesbach / Griezbach”, the older name still popular today, means “brook in the sand”. The addition "castle" was made to distinguish it from Sollngriesbach , which was also called Griesbach in earlier times. At the time of this last name there are probably still considerable remains of the castle.

history

The independent local nobility, the Lords of Griesbach, mentioned for the first time in 1088 with Odelrich von Griesbach and last mentioned in 1244 with "Konrad Truchseß dictus de Griezbach", probably sat at the Uttenhofen (= Jettenhofen ) castle until the castle was built in today's Burggriesbach . Between 1182 and 1195, Bishop Otto von Eichstätt consecrated a St. Gangolf church in Burggriesbach, which the Lords of Griesbach had built on the Schloßbering; it was replaced by a new building in 1771. Obviously, this local nobility left Griesbach again and again moved to Uttenhofen and named themselves again after Uttenhofen; this has been handed down for 1280.

The noble seat Burggriesbach remained, albeit with fewer possessions; it was probably held by a branch of the Griesbach family. The extinction of this local nobility must be expected in 1340 or shortly before, because Heinrich der Hauzze (= Hauzahn) zu Griesbach appears as a documentary witness in 1340, 1346 and 1352. From the Hauzahn, who were of lower service nobility , the castle passed to the Lords of Reichenau and then to Erst von Seckendorf , who sold it to the Schenk von Geyern zu Jettenhofen in 1375 . In 1414 Fritz Schenk von Geyern entrusted the Burggriesbach Castle to the Burgraviate of Nuremberg against the settlement of debts from the Nuremberg patrician Hansen Ritter and received it again as a man's fief .

Immediate castle ownership was 24 days of working meadows, a sheep farm and forests, plus the fields of the building yard. Outside of the surrounding town of Griesbach, the landlord of the castle was in Stipheim (= Stierbaum) and Rübling, each with the “yard” there and in yards with four valid properties.

In 1491 Wilhelm Schenk von Geyern sold the castle and his 28 subjects in Burggriesbach to the Eichstätter Hofmeister Hieronymus von Rosenberg , who was enfeoffed with it by the Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach . Rosenberg's heirs sold the castle at an unknown date to the Nuremberg patrician Georg Holzschuher , who smashed the property in 1519. Hermann Wichtner / Haymeran Wiechtnern, Councilor to Hilpoltstein , bought the empty castle . Rudolf von Hirnheim zu Jettenhofen acquired the “little castle as such with little land” from his heirs in 1544 . Holzschuher sold the building yard of the castle to Umsassen.

In 1585 the Hirnheimers died out, and a large part of Burggriesbach fell as a settled fiefdom to Margrave Georg Friedrich von Ansbach, who assigned the property to his office in Stauf . The castle itself was sold by the widowed daughters of the last Hirnheimer, Agnes Lochingerinn, Anna von Wöllwart, Barbara von Bernhausen and Maria von Welden together with the Lauterbach seat and all affiliations on November 10, 1586 to the Eichstatt Bishop Martin von Schaumberg .

In the period that followed, the high esteem subjects were subordinate to the episcopal Vogt, who resided in the box office in Jettenhofen. The episcopal curate of Obermässing exercised the jurisdiction . Griesbach Castle thus barely had a function. When, soon after 1612, an episcopal forest administration was set up in Burggriesbach, the forester was allowed to move to the former palace area, where a new forest office, a "manorial house", was built. In the Kingdom of Bavaria , the Burggriesbach forest district was divided into two forest districts due to its size and importance, namely the Burggriesbach forest district and the Beilngries forest district.

There was also a high school in the palace area from the 17th century; in 1670 there was a teacher named Leberth for the first time. The schoolmaster was also sacristan of the parish church of St. Gangolf in the west next to the castle. In 1852 a school house was built on the castle grounds, which was enlarged in 1895 until it was used for another purpose in the 20th century.

At the end of the Old Kingdom , around 1799, the former aristocratic residence is only mentioned as a castle stables. In 1805 it says: "Zu Griesbach is an old castle steel." A century later, in 1908, it says: "Very sparse remains of the wall have been preserved". The basic substance of the old school and the forester's house is probably based on the castle's masonry.

In December 2002 and March 2003 a rescue excavation was carried out in the area of ​​the castle stables when the Burggriesbach cemetery was to be expanded to the north. The northern foundation wall of the main building of the castle was exposed, as well as other remains of the wall, including the curtain wall and that of a well and the moat area outside the curtain wall.

description

In 1937, only "inaccessible cellars" were left of the castle, which was directly to the east of the church. The castle ring was originally surrounded by a moat , with the farm yard outside this moat. In 1709 the residential building of the castle no longer stood. The village joined the oval castle ring to the east in the form of a row village .

Architectural monuments

The former prince-bishop's forestry office on the former castle grounds by the church dates from the 17th century and is a listed building.

See also the list of monuments in Freystadt # Burggriesbach

literature

• Frank Feuerhahn: Archaeological investigations in the area of ​​the castle stables of Burggriesbach, City of Freystadt, district of Neumarkt id OPF. In: Contributions to archeology in the Upper Palatinate and Regensburg . Volume 6, 2004. Verlag Dr. Faustus, ISSN  1617-4461 , pp. 335-346.
• Felix Mader : History of the southern Seglau. (Former Eichstättisches Amt Jettenhofen) (Burggriesbach parish) . In: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 53 (1937), in particular pp. 34–84.
• Franz Xaver Buchner : The diocese of Eichstätt . Volume I: Eichstätt 1937, Volume II: Eichstätt 1938.
• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . Volume I, Ulm 1799.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mader, p. 34
2. ↑ Mader, pp. 34-36
3. ↑ Buchner I, p. 123
4. ↑ Mader, pp. 34-46; Buchner I, p. 123
5. ↑ Mader, p. 41 f.
6. ↑ Mader, pp. 46-48
7. ↑ Mader, p. 48
8. ↑ Mader, p. 114; Buchner I, p. 334; Bundschuh I, Sp. 500
9. ↑ ^{a b} Bundschuh I, column 500
10. ↑ Journal for forestry and hunting with special consideration for Bavaria , newer part, 2nd issue of the 1st volume, Erfurt 1841, p. 106
11. ↑ Mader, pp. 80 f., 83 f .; Buchner I, p. 123
12. ↑ Nikolaus Thadäus Gönner: History of the Schultheißenamt and the city of Neumarkt on the Nordgau or in today's Upper Palatinate , Munich 1805, p. 19
13. ^ Friedrich Hermann Hofmann and Felix Mader (arrangement): The art monuments of Upper Palatinate & Regensburg. XII District Office Beilngries, I. District Court Beilngries , Munich 1908, p. 61
14. ^ Contributions to archeology in the Upper Palatinate and Regensburg. Volume 6, 2004. Verlag Dr. Faustus, ISSN 1617-4461, pp. 335-346
15. ↑ Mader, pp. 39–42, 46

Web links

• [1] Burggriesbach. Editing, content: Andreas Hiemer