New Castle (Plößberg)

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New Castle (Plößberg)

The listed castle Plößberg is located in the Oberpfälzer Markt Plößberg in the district of Tirschenreuth (Schloßstraße 16).

history

In Plößberg, which was on the Golden Road from Nuremberg to Prague , a castle stable is said to have existed as early as 1052 in the area of ​​today's Schlossstrasse. Together with Schönkirch and Wildenau, Plößberg was one of the Bohemian fiefdoms in the Bavarian northern district .

An "Arnoldus de Plezperch" is named together with "Otto von Wildenau" as a witness of the Count of Sulzbach in a deed of donation from the Berchtesgaden monastery . The Plößbergers were later followed by the Gleißenthalers, the gentlemen of Schönkirch.

Shortly after the turn of the 12th century, the Veste Flossenbürg was built by Count Berengar von Sulzbach ; After the death of Gebhard II, the last Count of Sulzbach, the area around Flossenbürg was bought by Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa . With the transfer of Floß to the Bohemian King Ottokar I Přemysl by Emperor Friedrich II in 1212, the typical relationships between Plößberg, Schönkirch and Wildenau to the kingdom of Bohemia were established for the first time. In the meantime, however, the area around Floß fell back to the Staufer and was pledged together with the castle district of Parkstein in 1251 by Conrad IV to his father-in-law Otto II from the Wittelsbach family . After the end of the Staufer, the land was taken over by Duke Ludwig the Strict . The territorial claims raised by King Ottokar II. Přemysl were settled in 1273 by an exchange and renunciation of territory. The Luxembourg Emperor Charles IV later built a land bridge from Bohemia via Eger to Nuremberg and here in 1355 temporarily created the administrative unit New Bohemia , which was attached to the Kingdom of Bohemia.

In 1373, through the Treaty of Fürstenwalde, Floß came to Duke Johann II of Bavaria-Munich and remained there as a property of the Dukes of Bavaria-Landshut as own , pledged property and then at times as sole property . The Hussites plundered Plößberg around May 31, 1428 and burned the place down.

At the beginning of the 16th century, the dreaded robber barons Prenger lived in Plößberg . A son of Stephan Prenger I was executed by sword in the neighboring raft in 1531 for various robberies at the instigation of the city of Nuremberg.

After the Landshut War of Succession , Floß came to the Count Palatine Ottheinrich and, after his childless death, to the Count Palatinate Wolfgang or again to his son Philipp Ludwig and administratively to the Principality of Sulzbach . After 1543 the three places Plößberg, Schönkirch and Wildenau committed themselves to Luther's Reformation and in 1556 the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Plößberg was established. In 1627 the Counter Reformation began there too . For Plößberg, Schönkirch and Wildenau (later also Schlattstein) there were no problems because of the feudal relationship with the crown of Bohemia and the simultaneous sovereignty of Bavaria. The mentioned court stamps were registered in the Bavarian and Palatinate-Neuburgische Landtafel , but they received the manorial rights from the Crown of Bohemia. From this and from the refusal of the lords of the court to pay homage and muster their rear passengers to Pfalz-Neuburg, however, conflicts arose that were only ended by the Peace of Pressburg of 1805.

At the end of the 18th century, Franz von Satzenhofen was the landlord of Plößberg and Wildenau; In 1764, Elector Karl Theodor had obtained an eventual fiefdom letter from Empress Maria Theresa , according to which, in the event of a sonless death of the fiefdom holder, the fiefdom of the Principality of Sulzbach should pass. In 1783 the two court stamps came to the Bavarian sovereign who incorporated them into the Floß care office. Schönkirch, on the other hand, had been a fiefdom of the Freiherr von Reitzenstein since 1615 and remained as a knightly man's fiefdom with this family, which in 1803 was enfeoffed again by the Bohemian Crown. After the Peace of Pressburg, Schönkirch came to the Kingdom of Bavaria and was still given to the Barons of Reitzenstein. These formed a first class patrimonial court , which was converted into a second class local court in 1815.

Plößberg coat of arms

Plößberg Castle today

The former castle is a two-story, plastered solid construction with a hipped roof over a high basement. It was rebuilt after the fire of 1751 using components from the previous building from 1614. A listed quarry stone wall belongs to the castle.

The Plößberg market has had its own coat of arms since September 27, 1951. This shows the lilies of the Counts of Sulzbach and the four-sided shield in silver and black refers to the noble lords of Gleißenthal.

literature

  • Detlef Knipping, Gabriele Raßhofer: Tirschenreuth district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume III.45 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2000, ISBN 3-87490-579-9 .
  • Heribert Sturm: Tirschenreuth . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Part Altbayern Heft 21). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1970, DNB  456999094 , p. 225-233 .

Web links

Commons : Neues Schloss  - collection of images

Coordinates: 49 ° 47 ′ 2 "  N , 12 ° 18 ′ 24"  E