New Waldthurn Castle

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New Waldthurn Castle

The New Waldthurn Castle is a residence in Waldthurn . The listed building (Waldthurn Monument List, D-3-74-165-10) is located at Vohenstraußer Straße 14.

history

On May 16, 1656, Emperor Ferdinand III sold the rule of Waldthurn to Prince Wenzel von Lobkowitz . His wife - the Protestant Wittelsbacher Auguste Sophie von Pfalz-Sulzbach , daughter of the Count Palatine and Duke August von Sulzbach - resided in Neustadt an der Waldnaab , but had a new palace built as a summer residence in 1666/67 in the “Red Garden” in Waldthurn; The foundation stone was laid on July 22nd, 1666. For this new building, stones and window grilles from the old Waldthurn Castle were used, which explains the keystone - stonemason marks from much earlier times on the gate portal on the courtyard side. In a report from the senior councilor Christoph Philipp Zickhl to the prince on July 15, 1667, it says: “At the new building in Waldthurn, the lower floor of 28 windows with lots of stone pieces from the old castle as well as the 2 portals are brought together. “The square, three-storey building had an edge length of 21.6 m and a high, three-part roof structure.

Of Prince Wenzel of Lobkowitz , who lived as a war Reichshof President in Catholic Vienna, it was said that he came once a year for the procreation of children by Waldthurn or Neustadt to his wife.

In 1807, Prince Franz Josef Maximilian von Lobkowitz sold the rule for 700,000 guilders to the Kingdom of Bavaria . The originally three-story building was rebuilt in a simplified form in 1865 after a fire. It served as the seat of the district judge and as an economic and administrative office.

Later use

In 1808 the castle was auctioned to the town clerk substitute Herrmann Kaspar. Master butcher Georg Adam Müllhofer followed in 1839. In 1860 the Royal Postal Expedition was set up here. A Christoph Müllhofer is named as post keeper and butcher, on January 1, 1880, he was assigned the postal expedition service (from 1898 post office, from April 1, 1939 branch post office until 1949). After further changes of ownership, the "Association for Outpatient Nursing" ran a nurses' home and kindergarten here between 1928 and 1964.

Currently (2019) the castle serves as a parish hall and the community as a wedding room.

Today's appearance

The former castle is now a two-storey three-wing complex. The main wing has a hipped roof and a round arched gate in the middle. The courtyard wall forms the end of the courtyard to the west with a round arched gate.

In 1977 the so-called Lobkowitz Fountain was rebuilt in front of the castle. The design for it was made by the cathedral builder Richard Triebe , the execution comes from the Neustadt artist Max Fischer. Relief-like lion head fragments from earlier times, which are reminiscent of the princely coat of arms of the Lobkowitz family, were used. The earlier fountain was built in 1685 and was placed in the south-facing "Kuchl and flower garden" of the palace.

  • Original appearance of the New Castle of Waldthurn

  • Back of Waldthurn Castle today

  • Countess Palatine Auguste Sophie von Sulzbach (1624–1682), Princess von Lobkowicz

  • Prince Wenzel Eusebius von Lobkowicz (1609–1677)

literature

  • Franz Bergler (text), Helmut Gollwitzer (red.): House book of the market town of Waldthurn. Medienhaus Weiden, Weiden 2003.
  • Franz Bergler: Waldthurn: rule, market and parish - in the service of the homeland. Spintler, Weiden 2014.
  • Sixtus Lampl: Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments. Volume III: Upper Palatinate. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, Munich 1985.
  • Georg Schmidbauer: The Fahrenberg: The "holy mountain of the Upper Palatinate"; History and stories. Bodner, Pressath 2011.
  • 775 years of Waldthurn: Heimatfest; 7-17 August 1992. Spintler, Weiden 1992.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Raubritter - Bauernkriege - Noble Weddings, onetz from December 2, 2018, accessed on May 2, 2019
  2. ↑ Eduard Mikusek: The Lobkowitz in Bohemia and Upper Palatinate. (PDF heimatforschung-regensburg.de ). Retrieved March 28, 2019.

Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 19.7 "  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 54.4"  E