Rosenberg Castle Stables

Rosenberg Castle Stables
Cenotaph on the Rosenberg
Alternative name (s):	Rosenburg
Creation time :	mentioned in the 13th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Standing position :	Count
Place:	Sulzbach-Rosenberg - "Schlossberg"
Geographical location	49 ° 29 '28.9 "  N , 11 ° 45' 57.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '28.9 "  N , 11 ° 45' 57.7"  E
Height:	410  m above sea level NHN

The Postal Rosenberg , also Rosenburg called, is an Outbound hilltop castle on the 410  m above sea level. NHN high Rosenberg immediately north of the church of Sulzbach-Rosenberg in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach in Bavaria .

history

The castle, which was probably built around the middle of the 11th century and was first mentioned on May 6, 1253, was probably owned by the Counts of Sulzbach , only to become the property of the Counts of Hirschberg after they died out in 1188 . After this family died out with Gebhard VII in 1305, Sulzbach came to the Bavarian dukes with the sub-office of Rosenberg and the castle there. The fallen imperial fiefdom of Rosenburg was awarded to the Wittelsbach family by King Albrecht of the Habsburgs on December 13, 1307 . These new acquisitions were incorporated into the Viztumamt Burglengenfeld, then part of the Duchy of Upper Bavaria. The castle was awarded to Friedrich Voit von Rosenberg (called Frank), who fought in the battle of Gammelsdorf . After him the fief went to Ulrich von Reicheneck. In the Treaty of Pavia , Rosenburg then came to the Palatinate line of the Wittelsbach family in 1329. In 1459 Wilhelm Paulsdorfer and Jakob Kemnater owned the castle. In the 15th century the castle belonged to the hammer master of Rosenberg, Mendel von Steinfels.

Rosenberg Castle on a panel from around 1550

In 1481 Duke Albrecht sold the castle to his councilor Veit von Schaumberg . In 1495 the Stibar came into possession. In 1542 Pankraz and Hans Joachim Stibar zu Buttenheim sold Rosenberg to Sebastian Erlbeck zu Sittenbach. Since then the castle has been deserted. After the death of the last Erlbeck named Wolf, the castle fell back to Duke Ottheinrich in 1584 . After 1733 the Hofmark came to the Sulzbach Chancellor Johann Georg von Korb and after his death in 1742 it came back to the Bavarian Duke. Around 1600 there was a synagogue at the castle after the Regenstaufer pastor and cartographer of the Principality of Palatinate-Neuburg Christoph Vogel .

Falzberg near Sulzbach, bottom right: Rosenberg Castle (1580)

The castle fell into disrepair in the 16th century, in 1648 the Sulzbach chronicler Johannes Braun wrote about the complex: “When I visited the castle, which is located on a very high mountain, in 1615, I found only an old wall with hedges and thorns that looked wild. The wall, which partly still stood, especially towards the village, is one and a half fathoms thick in several places, made of very large pieces of ashlar, as is the tower in the middle of the castle. But they gradually fall down from the tower piece by piece, so that it is now an apartment for owls, bats and other vermin. "

Rosenberg, Schloßbergweg 10: Former Schloss Franziskaruhe, later the Maxhütte factory casino

Between 1785 and 1786, stones from the castle ruins were used to build Franziskaruhe Castle , the summer residence of Franziska Dorothea, Countess Palatine and mother of the future Elector and King Maximilian I Josef of Bavaria. used. In 1805 the ruins went into private ownership. In the end, only the remains of the wall of the keep , the stump of which was still five meters high, were preserved. The remains of this keep were walled up in a memorial in 1929 . The plan and the choice of the location of the 40,000 Mark expensive memorial came from the privy councilor and director of the Maxhütte Eugen Böhringer. The Maxhütte took over the financing. The monument is erected in a strictly reduced form of the Heimat style; it comes from Philipp Kittler and Hans Heckmann, 1925–1929.

description

The center of the castle complex was a keep , the stump of which is now walled into the war memorial on the Schlossberg. It had a square floor plan 12 meters wide. On the outside, the habitable tower was covered with ashlars, which speaks for the construction in the 12th century. To keep a tripartite joined to the west horseshoe-shaped palace with a small courtyard on. The course of the outer wall can be seen today as the edge of the terrain on the slightly lower semicircular terrace. The farm buildings are likely to have been on the plateau in the north, the gate is to be found in the northwest corner. The complex was surrounded by a curtain wall , which today can be seen as the edge of the slope or as an edge wall.

literature

• Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district . Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1991, pp. 182-186.
• Mathias Conrad: The Rosenberger Schlossberg. In amberg information , May 1993, pp. 19-25.
• Karl Wächter, Günter Moser: On the trail of knights and nobles in the Amberg-Sulzbach district - castles, palaces, noble residences, hammer estates . Buch & Kunstverlag Oberpfalz, Amberg 1992, ISBN 3-924350-26-4 , pp. 44-45.

Web links

Commons : Burgstall Rosenberg  - Collection of images

• Entry on Rosenberg in the private database "Alle Burgen".
• History of Rosenberg

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district. P. 182.
2. ^ Franz Michael Ress (1960): Buildings, monuments and foundations of German ironworkers (written on behalf of the Association of German Ironworkers ). Verlag Stahleisen, Düsseldorf, p. 26.
3. ↑ Georg Hager u. a .: The art monuments of Upper Palatinate and Regensburg: District Office Sulzbach , Volume 19.
4. ^ Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district. P. 184.
5. ^ Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district. P. 185.