Burgtreswitz

Burgtreswitz Market Moosbach Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 42 " N , 12 ° 23 ′ 25" E
Height :	505 m
Residents :	278 (Dec. 31, 2012)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1971
Postal code :	92709
Area code :	09656
	Burgtreswitz, in the background Moosbach (2013)

Burgtreswitz is a district of the Moosbach market in the Upper Palatinate district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab . It is located about one kilometer northwest of Moosbach an der Pfreimd . The former castle rises above the valley.

Castle in Treswitz

Historical overview

The place was first mentioned in 1218 with the naming of the knight Pernoldus von Draeswitz as Ministerialer of the Counts of Ortenburg - Murach . Slavic activity has been handed down even before that, and the foundation of the place can probably be traced back to it. In 1272 the castle came into the possession of the Wittelsbach family and was founded in the 12th century by the Sulzbach family.

Before the Wittelsbach family, the Knights of Draeswitz ruled in the 12th and 13th centuries. The following 300 years Treswitz was assigned to the "Palatinate near Rhine". During this time Treswitz was expanded into a mighty castle.

In 1304 Konrad II von Paulsdorf was named as the first nurse in Burgtreswitz. The Treswitz office included the areas around Moosbach, Eslarn and Waidhaus . In 1410 Treswitz received the lower jurisdiction , 1585 the high jurisdiction . In 1594 the Treswitz and Tännesberg nursing offices were merged with their headquarters in Burgtreswitz. It was not until 1628 that Treswitz became Bavarian again and consequently a curb-Bavarian nursing office and court.

During the Thirty Years War , the castle was destroyed by imperial troops in 1634. The reconstruction dragged on in several stages over decades. In 1690 the first holy mass was celebrated in the new palace chapel "At the Immaculate Conception".

The Lichtenstern nurses brought Treswitz a big boom in the 18th century with the creation of a regional court as the climax. The catchment area included Vohenstrauss , Moosbach, Pleystein , Eslarn , Waidhaus , Tännesberg , Waldthurn and Leuchtenberg . In 1809 the nearby Vohenstrauß became the place of the court and the importance of the town and the castle waned.

Entrance to Burgtreswitz

From 1734 to 1735 and again from 1779 to 1786 renovations took place, in the course of which the tower was demolished and a new arched gate was built.

The castle in its present form

In the middle of the 18th century the commercial properties belonging to the castle and the Treswitz office were sold. Despite some renovation work, the palace building fell into disrepair in 1786. Damage caused by frost and storms in 1786 and 1788 was only sparsely repaired in view of a later possible relocation of the office to Friedrichsburg in Vohenstrauss.

In the years 1810 to 1813 the municipality of Burgtreswitz acquired the castle and sold the northwest wing and the castle chapel to Prelate Magnus Singer. He took advantage of the opportunity and sold valuable inventory items from the church as well as his share.

In the years that followed, the building served as a farm, restaurant and brewery , and the new use brought an upswing again: The castle brewery supplied sixty restaurants in the area with beer, the cold stone cellar two floors below the castle was a locational advantage and provided a guarantee for always cool beer . In 1938 the family firm Schön closed the brewery.

In 1942 the building had another change of ownership: the Berlin engineer Egon Krüger became the new lord of the castle. The artist Kurt Benning met him in 1969 and first portrayed him photographically. He later returned several times and documented the traces of life as well as decay, which he also reflected on in texts. Ultimately, a room installation with photos, relics and a film was created, which was shown in full for the first time in 2016/2017 at the Kolumba Museum in Cologne and is the property of which it is now.

Finally, in 1983, Markt Moosbach acquired the complex with 4867 square meters of land by way of a right of first refusal for only 9,000 marks. Unfortunately, this reflected the actual value: the roof was leaking, the roof structure was badly damaged, the walls were infested with sponge and fungus. The outer walls moved further down the valley, so that the statics were no longer correct and large parts of the castle had collapsed or endangered.

In order to stop further deterioration, the backup work began immediately.

The development association

A comprehensive renovation of the castle with an estimated cost of well over five million euros was not feasible for municipal sponsors. In 1985, the Friends' Association was founded with the help of the Moosbach community. To date, the members of the association have worked more than 30,000 hours without any payment.

The statutes list the following special objectives:

Promotion of the preservation and restoration of the castle
Preservation of public property
Allocation of the castle for cultural and local use
Intensification of historical research
Raising public interest in the interests of the castle

The “construction team” of the development association is particularly noteworthy. In the unpaid working hours he created the conditions for the castle to be used at all today. So the construction team cleared out the entire castle and the property. He erected wooden walkways in the attic, built in stairs and new floors, installed new windows, renovated the dining room, painstakingly laid the granite paving in the gateway, built a toilet facility, created the museum rooms and much more.

Through this work, the friends' association was able to bring the castle back to life. Today it is considered the cultural center of the market town of Moosbach.

The association has already received various awards and honors, for example the Förderverein Schloss Burgtreswitz e. V. "was awarded the culture prize of the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab in 2006. In 2008, the Neustadt district administrator awarded the building crew the award of honor for merits in the honorary office. On July 28, 2009, the association was awarded the Hypo monument prize -Culture Foundation awarded.

Burgtreswitz community

The independent municipality of Burgtreswitz was dissolved on April 1, 1971 and incorporated into the Moosbach market .

Population development

1875-1950
year	Residents	building
1871	377	133
1885	446	56
1900	363	55
1928	353	58
1950	404	61

1964-2016
year	Residents	building
1961	321	64
1970	263	k. A.
1987	338	91
2011	265	k. A.

Culture and sights

On July 11, 1885, 29 men founded the volunteer fire brigade Burgtreswitz in the “Zum golden Löwen” inn . On April 1, 1971, Burgtreswitz came to the municipality of Moosbach as part of the regional reform in Bavaria .

In the castle there is a local history museum, a hunting and fishing museum and an information point of the Northern Upper Palatinate Forest nature park with a permanent exhibition. Open-air theater has been held every year in Burgtreswitz Castle since 1997. Furthermore, numerous events have been established in the castle with various festivals, historical markets and guided tours as well as concerts of all kinds. The neo-Gothic branch church of the Immaculate Conception was built between 1857 and 1859 by the community of Burgtreswitz instead of the ruined castle chapel. The interior with a richly decorated high altar from the 17th century and a pulpit that is well worth seeing comes from the old castle chapel. In front of the church is the war memorial, a granite obelisk.

Today's bridge over the Pfreimd was built around 1910. Below the bridge there is a stone figure of St. Nepomuk, probably in the middle of the 18th century.

On the road to Moosbach is the St. Sebastian chapel from the 19th century. There is a column shrine from 1717.