New Castle (Eslarn)

New lock
Creation time :	16th Century
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Eslarn
Geographical location	49 ° 34 '39.9 "  N , 12 ° 31' 18.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 34 '39.9 "  N , 12 ° 31' 18.3"  E

The expired New Castle of Eslarn was located in the south of the Upper Palatinate market Eslarn . Here used to be a stand the Holy. Wenzelslaus consecrated chapel . The old name for the location of the castle , namely Wenzelberg , disappeared early. The field name Schlossberg , however, still exists in Eslarn today. Underground findings at the site of the earlier castle are listed as a ground monument.

history

After the destruction of the old castle in Eslarn by fire on May 16, 1567, a new castle was built by Hieronymus Stöckel in the south on the Wenzel or Schlossberg of Eslarn. Compared to the old castle , this was an elegant building; In addition, he borrowed over 2000 guilders from the Eslar Hammerherrn, which he paid off with charcoal from the leasable forests. On May 28, 1567, the Amberg government also gave him permission to use the chapel in the Azman Fields to build his new house. In the castle courtyard he had a 39 m ("into the twenty laughs ") deep well dug, which alone cost 1000 fl. He also had a large vaulted cellar, a malt house and various utility buildings built. Hieronymus Stöckel then referred to himself as the master of Wenzelberg and Eslarn .

Due to the inheritance contract that the childless Hieronymus Stöckel had concluded with his uncle Heinrich von Gleißenthal on November 24, 1566, he remained the actual owner of the Hofmark Eslarn ("man fiefs") during his lifetime, but the fiefdoms were issued for him and the Gleißenthal . Heinrich von Gleißenthal tried hard to fulfill the conditions in the contract with Hieronymus Stöckel . In this way he achieved that the debts that Margrave Albrecht Alccbiades of Brandenburg-Kulmbach had with Hieronymus Stöckel as "Supreme Equipment Master and Captain zu Horn Landsberg" and of which his successor Margrave Georg Friedrich I wanted nothing to do with at least one a smaller part were reimbursed. He was also able to mediate in the dispute between Hieronymus Stöckel and his brother-in-law Ernst Rauschengründer . Rauschengründer complained in Amberg that his brother-in-law was not bringing out the inheritance for his wife Barbara . At a meeting of the two in Karlsbad in 1569, a fight between the two could only be prevented if necessary , but a settlement was reached through the instigation of Heinrich von Gleißenthal . However, his efforts to acquire ownership in the Bohemian city of Tachau were unsuccessful . After the death of Heinrich von Gleißenthal († 1575), his son Ernst received the Eslar fiefdom for himself and his brothers Sigmund , Heinrich , Alexander , Georg and Adolf ; two years later the fiefdom is issued for Sigmund von Gleißenthal alone .

Hieronymus Stöckel was now looking for ways to cancel the donation agreement. In 1578 he married Sibylla von Giech a second time in the hope of getting an heir. When his only surviving daughter was two years old, he wrote to Sigmund von Gleißenthal on November 24, 1583 that he was revoking the donation agreement; the reasons he gave was that the agreements made had not been fulfilled, and that he now had a "body heir", which was not so, since Eslarn was a male fief and his daughter was not entitled to inheritance.

After the death of her husband († August 26, 1588), Sibylla Stöckel tried by all means to stay in the castle and in the possession of the Hofmark. These efforts were unsuccessful, however, on March 15, 1591, Sebastian von Brand, in the presence of Sibylla Stöckel, sold the goods that the late court lord had owned to the electoral government for 6500 guilders. Inventories were now employed as administrators . This remained so until 1621. In that year, Mansfeld's soldiers looted the castle completely and turned it into a ruin. After their departure, there were no windows, doors or stoves to be found, even the ground had been dug up because the soldiers suspected that there was hidden treasure. The last owner , Gabriel Köferl , was no longer able to raise the existing interest and after him no new administrator could be found for the castle property for a long time.

literature

• Josef Hanauer: Heimatbuch Eslarn. Marktgemeinde Eslarn (Ed.), Weiden 1975.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ D-3-6441-0008