Burgstall Gleiritsch

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Burgstall Gleiritsch
Alternative name (s): Plassenberg Castle
Creation time : 14th Century
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: small remains of foundations
Standing position : Manor
Place: Slip
Geographical location 49 ° 29 '40 "  N , 12 ° 20' 6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '40 "  N , 12 ° 20' 6"  E
Height: 598  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Gleiritsch (Bavaria)
Burgstall Gleiritsch
Map of Bavaria (detail, 1663)
Location of Plassenberg Castle near Gleiritsch

The Burgstall Gleiritsch is an abandoned castle in the 600 meter high Weider forest in the Plassenberg forest department . The Burgstall is located in the municipality of Gleiritsch in the Upper Palatinate district of Schwandorf in Bavaria .

Geographical location

Two kilometers east of Gleiritsch on today's communal road from Gleiritsch to Schömersdorf in the Weider forest department , Plassenberg Castle used to stand. The forest department belongs to the Bavarian State Forests. From this point you had eye contact with the castles Tännesberg , Leuchtenberg , Wildstein and Murach .

history

The place Gleiritsch is a Slavic foundation and documented with the year 1031. The beginnings of the castle near Gleiritsch are in the dark. "Oudalric and Marquard von Gleurast" can be traced on Gleiritsch from 1194 onwards, there are no reliable references to a castle. The Gleuraster was followed by the Zeller family from 1282 to 1397.

First mention of the castle (1397)

A castle is mentioned for the first time in a sales contract dated January 31, 1397. "Frau Elspet Zellaer" sold half the fortress and half the village of "Glaweretsch" to her uncle Hans den Hachenberger. The Muracher, Zenger, Losnitzer and Warperger followed the Hachenberger as lords of the castle on Gleiritsch. The list of the Upper Palatinate nobility also mentions the Schlammersdorfer family as lords of the castle. They were followed by the Gleissenthalers.

The Plassenberg family of knights

At the latest in the years 1550 to 1651, the Plassenbergers sat on Gleiritsch as Hofmarksherrn . On September 25, 1559, Elector Friedrich III enfeoffed. from the Palatinate "Christoff Jacob von Plassenberg zu Gleuratsch" "with the burklein Plassenberg and more specifically designated associated goods". More Plassenbergers followed. Hans Melchior von Plassenberg is documented as the last descendant of this noble family on the Gleiritsch manor from 1607 to 1651. Under the effects of political events ( Thirty Years War 1618–1648) and religious upheavals, initiated by the Reformation , the Gleiritsch estate was facing ruin. Hans Melchior von Plassenberg " died in 1652 as the last of his name, gender, shield and home without a body heir ".

Decay of the castle

In 1651, Heinrich Siegmund Portner, a grandson of Hans Melchior von Plassenberg, who died in 1652, took over the Gleiritsch estate. There are no sources about the continued existence of the castle. A manuscript from 1845 by Benedikt Zehentmeier, who was a school teacher in Gleiritsch at the time, reports: To the southwest “of the Tännesberg market, ... lies the legendary manor Gleiritsch. ... In earlier times the Lords of Plassenberg had their castle half an hour east of the village of Gleiritsch and you can still find the weathered walls of a once extensive and massive building under large beech trees ” . In 1906 it says: “The last castle stood south of the church . The earlier castle (Castle Plassenberg) was on the height east of the place, in the forest department "Blaßenberg". You can hardly see any traces ” . It also says: “Plassenberg bei Gleiritsch is also to be mentioned as the Burgstall” . After the castle complex fell into disrepair, the ruins were used as a quarry. The former 120 × 50 meter castle complex has been completely removed. There are only minor remains of the foundation to be found.

  • Map with location (1906)

  • Burgstall Gleiritsch (2011)

  • Land survey 1836

literature

  • Karl-Otto Ambronn: Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Part Old Bavaria, Series II, Book 3, Landsassen and Landsassengüter of the Principality of the Upper Palatinate in the 16th century , Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7696-9932-7
  • Johann Gottfried Biedermann, Gender Register of the Reichs-Frey immediate knighthood, Landes Francken, Löblichen Ort-Gebürg , Volume 5, Bamberg 1747, Plate 342
  • Georg Hager, The Art Monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria , Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, VII District Office Oberviechtach, Munich 1906
  • Alois Köppl: From the history of the community Gleiritsch. Gleiritsch community 1988, 2nd edition
  • Josef Plaß: The Upper Palatinate Nobility , Donauwörth 1880
  • Ernst Schwarz: Language and Settlement in Northeast Bavaria. Nuremberg 1960
  • Jakob Wille, The German Palatinate Manuscripts of the 16th and 17th Centuries of the University Library in Heidelberg , I. Codices Palatini Germanici 486, Heidelberg 1903
  • Historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, Benedikt Zehentmeier, Gleiritsch , manuscript O357, 1845

Web links

Commons : Burgstall Gleiritsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Schwarz: Language and Settlement in Northeast Bavaria. Nuremberg 1960, p. 312
  2. ↑ Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv München, holdings: Kloster Reichenbach, No. 1 and Monumenta Boica, Volume XXVII, p. 43
  3. ↑ Bavarian Main State Archives, Munich, holdings of Bamberg documents: No. 4556
  4. ↑ Josef Plaß: The Upper Palatinate Adel , Donauwörth 1880, p. 182
  5. ↑ Alois Köppl: From the history of the community Gleiritsch. Gleiritsch 1988, p. 49.
  6. ↑ Ambronn, Karl-Otto, Die Landsassen des Fürstentums der Obern Pfalz, Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Part of Old Bavaria, Series II, Issue 3, Munich 1982, p. 77.
  7. ↑ Jakob Wille, The German Palatinate Manuscripts of the 16th and 17th Centuries of the University Library in Heidelberg, I. Codices Palatini Germanici 486, Heidelberg 1903, p. 61
  8. ^ Biedermann, Gender Register, Volume 5, Plate 342
  9. ↑ State Archives Amberg, inventory: Standbuch No. 351, fol. 232.
  10. ^ Historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, Benedikt Zehentmeier, Gleiritsch, manuscript O357, 1845
  11. ^ Georg Hager, The Art Monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria , Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, VII District Office Oberviechtach, Munich 1906, p. 19 f
  12. ^ Georg Hager, The Art Monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria , Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, VII District Office Oberviechtach, Munich 1906, p. 79 f