Hofer Castle

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The Hofer Castle began as a castle town of Hof and was in 1743 by a city fire destroyed.

history

Hof Castle was first mentioned in a document in 1276, owned by the Weida bailiffs . As a city castle, it was integrated into the city's fortifications, but was also secured towards the city. In 1373 the fortification passed to the burgraves of Nuremberg . Levin von Wirsberg reported that the facility was able to help defend against the Hussites in 1430 . The castle tower was part of the maintenance regulations of 1498 . When the city ​​of Hof was besieged in 1553 during the Second Margrave War , cannons were posted on the towers, which could offer resistance to the besiegers.

During the Thirty Years' War , alternate imperial and Swedish troops holed up in the castle. In 1643, captain and fortress commander Otto Friedrich von Bodenhausen allowed the Swedish major Hörel to assign ten of his people to guard the castle gate, which enabled the well-secured city castle to be occupied. Even when the Swedish troops gave up and withdrew their garrison from the court, the castle remained occupied due to a lack of relief troops. In July 1643 the siege of the palace by imperial troops failed. Major Hörel withdrew in August. The city of Hof then backfilled the moat of the castle and had the castle wall removed in order to prevent a similar situation in the future.

In the time of the Principality of Bayreuth , the castle served as the seat of the bailiff (see also the list of bailiffs in the Principality of Bayreuth ). The Hof officials included Hans von Sparneck and Conrad von Aufseß . The castle fell victim to a city fire in 1743 and was not rebuilt for lack of money. The city bought the area in 1762, demolished the remains and built two brewing and mulz houses for communal brewers on it .

Building description

The rectangular complex was surrounded by a wall, a kennel and a wall with four towers at the corners. Inside there were two multi-storey buildings that served as an apartment and administrative headquarters. A well in the inner area ensured the water supply.

Present stock

Today there is a street, a parking lot, the technical college, a parking garage and other buildings on the grounds of the castle. Remains of the castle are only reminiscent of the wall remnants of a bastion rounding in Theaterstrasse and remnants of the northern rampart including the trench lining. When building a parking garage, the basement foundations were determined and measured. An archway was built at the entrance of the artificial ruin in Theresienstein , the labyrinth.

  • Remainder of a bastion rounding

  • Archway at the labyrinth

literature

  • Helmut Hennig: Warthen on the mountains . In: Local supplement to the official school gazette of the administrative district of Upper Franconia . Bayreuth. No. 256 November 1998. pp. 38f.
  • Hanns Hofmann: Historical buildings in Hof. Textilgruppe Hof, Hof 1990. Page 50 f.
  • Jörg Wurdack: Military history of the city of Hof. North Upper Franconian Association for Nature, History and Regional Studies , 2005, ISBN 3928626515 , Volume 10, Page 80. (contains drawing of the castle by Hermann Stöhr)
  • Frankenpost from April 29, 1992: Oldest ruins from the 14th century - archeology: Castle was not a residence, but rather a military building .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jörg Wurdack: Military history of the city of Hof . North Upper Franconian Association for Nature, History and Regional Studies, 2005, ISBN 3928626515 , Volume 10, Page 558.
  2. ^ A b c d Hanns Hofmann: Historical buildings in court . Textilgruppe Hof, Hof 1990. pp. 50f.
  3. ↑ Dieter Arzberg: Lord give peace that nourishes - The Thirty Years War in the Fichtel Mountains . Part 1. Selb 2014. pp. 246-253. ISBN 978-3-927313-70-5 .
  4. ^ August Gebeßler : City and district of Hof . The Art Monuments of Bavaria , Brief Inventories , Volume VII . German art publisher . Munich 1960. p. 28.

Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 13.6 ″  N , 11 ° 54 ′ 57.5 ″  E