Gärbershof Castle

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Gärbershof Castle is an abandoned castle and was located in the Gärbershof district, which has been part of the Upper Palatinate town of Amberg since 1972 . The abandoned castle site is located approx. 1500 m southeast of the Amberg town church ; Construction remains underground, but not archaeologically developed, are still present.

history

According to the castle memorandum of the Palatinate Elector Ruprecht I from 1358, Gerbershof was one of the places outside the city of Amberg that were to remain outside the castle property. In 1411 the district judge Altmann Kemnather was the owner of the castle and the Gärbershof estate. He was followed by Hans Kastner , who also owned the Hammer Unterschnaittenbach . According to his will, Gärbershof went to his nephew Peter Kastner. He sold it in 1456 to Christoph, keeper of the Haymhoff and brother-in-law of Peter Kastner, and Heinrich Scharpfenberger from Scharpfenberg Castle , but only gave the property to the Scharpfenbergers after a court order. Heinrich Scharpfenberger paid off his brother Christoph in December of the same year and became the sole owner of Gärbershof. Due to debts, he sold this property to Endres Schober, from whom Konrad Scharpfenberger, Richter and Kastner zu Vilseck , was able to buy it back in 1496. The Scharpfenberger was followed by Jörg Pirkner, who also owned the Spitz Castle in Altammerthal . He was followed in 1518 by the rent master Kaspar Honhammer, who also owned Spitz Castle until his death († 1541/44). His heir Urban Honhammer sold the property to Dr. Balthasar Steinhauser, who, as a non- aristocrat, had to buy the freedom of the local people with 500 fl . Due to debts he had to sell the property to the Mayor of Amberg, Meyer, in 1622; since the government did not approve this, he sold it in 1623 to the governor Lorenz Freiherr von Wensin († 1626). His widow sold the property to Johann Georg Prunner zu Brunnhofen in the year of his death. Hans Thoma von Fronhaim owned the estate as early as 1928. From him Gärbershof went to the Collegium Societatis Jesu in 1652 ; After the dissolution of the Jesuit order in 1773, the property came to the Order of Malta in 1782 and was confiscated by the state in 1799.

Construction

In the Amberg City Museum , the so-called Schwaiger relief from 1615 shows the “Gerbershoff Castle”. After that, the castle was a three-storey building with outbuildings. It was enclosed by a wall with a gate. To the south and east it was secured by ponds. It is not known exactly when it went off.

literature

  • Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district . Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1991, pp. 69-71.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ STAAM, Kastl Abbey, documents 514 , April 12, 1456, Nabburg on www.gda.bayern.de ; accessed on June 24, 2020
  2. ↑ STAAM, Kastl Abbey, documents 516 , December 3, 1456, Nabburg on www.gda.bayern.de ; accessed on June 24, 2020
  3. ↑ STAAM, Kastl Abbey, documents 602 , June 20, 1496 Amberg, on www.gda.bayern.de ; accessed on June 24, 2020

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 23.6 "  N , 11 ° 50 ′ 30.6"  E