New Castle (Hemau)

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Former New Castle in Hemau

The New Palace is a listed building in Kirchengasse 10/12 on the Münchberg next to the parish church in the town of Hemau in the district of Regensburg ( Bavaria ). It is the successor to Hemau Castle, built in the 12th century .

history

The founding of Hemau Castle is attributed to the Counts of Hirschberg . These were held by the Bamberg Bailiwick on the Tangrintel , the former royal forest around Hemau. The castle served as the seat of power and to control the road from Regensburg to Nuremberg . The last Hirschberger, Count Gebhard VII., In the event of his childless death, had committed Hemau and all of his possessions to Duke Ludwig II , even though the convent was actually the landowner and the diocese of Bamberg was the upper owner. In 1305 the Wittelsbachers were enfeoffed by Bishop Wulfing with the city of Hemau and the surrounding Tangrintel. A castrum appears in Hemau in a directory of the convent from 1459 to 1484 , which is ascribed to the sovereign; it is the seat of the ducal caretaker . The castle was west of the parish church and was a relatively small Romanesque complex with a keep . In 1780, Nepomuk von Reisach describes a tower built from large ashlars (popularly known as the Hofturm or Hexenturm ) not far from the caretaker's house, which was provided with cages for the incarceration of convicts and instruments of torture. In 1797 half of the tower was demolished and in 1804 it was completely removed.

The New Palace was built around 1600 by the city of Hemau using demolition material from the earlier castle (with the exception of the tower). Around 1810 other older buildings were demolished. 1797-1810 the castle was partially demolished. The building served, among other things, as a former rent office building and later as a district court. Today it is used as a branch of the Regensburg Land Surveying Office and is owned by the Free State of Bavaria .

Entrance portal to the New Castle in Hemau

description

The castle is a three-storey hipped roof building with a baroque stone portal.

The following are also preserved:

  • baroque courtyard wall
  • baroque boundary stones displaced and placed in the garden
  • in the garden: city moat with lining and city wall

literature

  • Andreas Boos : Castles in the south of the Upper Palatinate. The early and high medieval fortifications of the Regensburg area (pp. 195–199). Universitätsverlag Regensburg, Regensburg 1998. ISBN 3-930480-03-4 .
  • Sixtus Lampl: Upper Palatinate (=  monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments . Volume III ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52394-5 .
  • Georg Dehio : Bavaria V: Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate - Handbook of German art monuments . Jolanda Drexler, Achim Hubel (arrangement), Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1991.

Web links

Commons : Neues Schloss (Hemau)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 3 ′ 12.1 ″  N , 11 ° 46 ′ 59.9 ″  E