Pfinzingschloss

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Pfinzingschloss

The Pfinzingschloss or Mornek Castle is next to the Tucherschloss and the Zeidlerschloss one of three surviving castles of the Nuremberg patriciate in Feucht . The castle has been owned and used by the Feucht market since 1988. Concerts and art exhibitions take place in the entrance hall.

history

Scheurl coat of arms

Local researchers have suspected a ministerial seat at this point, which could be assumed to have existed as early as the 13th century , but the Pfinzing Castle has only been proven since the 15th century. The residence of Ludwig Pfinzing was mentioned in 1469 when he sold his Feuchter estates to the imperial city of Nuremberg . The Nuremberg patrician acquired the property through his marriage to a woman from Waldstrom in 1455. The family of Waldstromer , which at times held the title of imperial forest master , had already acquired several Feuchter estates in the 14th century.

Soon after the acquisition, the Nuremberg Council sold the manor to councilor Dr. Sebald Müller, who owned it until his death in 1495. Among his descendants, the Pfinzing Castle and the village of Feucht fell victim to the Landshut War of Succession in 1504 . It was not until shortly before 1520 that Gabriel Vorteilel , who also inherited the “ Castle in the Carthusian Pond ”, acquired the fire ruins, but passed them on to a Bernhard Glotz. The new owner must have started the reconstruction soon after his purchase: in 1521 there was already talk of “Glotzen's newly built house and manor”. But already in 1530 it was sold to the Nuremberg citizen Hanns Pfann and his stepson Christof Mordeisen and only shortly afterwards to Kaspar Koberger.

Koberger experienced the second destruction of the seat in the Second Margrave War on May 16, 1552. In 1557, Koberger asked the council to be allowed to sell the " Burgstall " with the fire ruins. The patrician Georg Tetzel , born in 1529 , who married in 1558 and apparently carried out the reconstruction of the Pfinzing Castle in the following decade , acted as buyer . The year 1568 on a coat of arms on the ground floor should document the completion of the construction project.

In 1585 Georg Tetzel sold the new castle to Anton Pfann and Alexander Rosenthaler, apparently speculators of goods, who sold it to the merchant Eustachius Unterholzer in 1586. He later bequeathed it to his son of the same name, who was followed by grandson Tobias Unterholzer in 1616. During the Thirty Years' War he repeatedly had to accept that the mansion was occupied, looted and its furnishings demolished. After the death of Tobias Unterholzer, the guardians of his still underage son sold the seat in 1650 to Friedrich Otto Freiherrn von Herberstein , who had to leave his home Carinthia as a Protestant . The baron was in such difficult economic circumstances that he largely owed the purchase price. The property therefore fell back to the Unterholzer family after some legal negotiations.

In 1677 the imperial city of Nuremberg bought the manor house again after Eustachius Karl Unterholzer was unable to find a buyer from Nuremberg. In 1682 council counselor Dr. Christoph Gottlieb Scheurl von Defersdorf bought the property. He had two towers of the defensive wall removed, the one on Steingasse and the back one on Schlosswiese. At that time, the manor house also had a gardener's house and a gatehouse as well as various agricultural outbuildings. On the bottom of the two former wall towers, small sheds were built in 1712 to store tobacco and fodder.

After the councilor's death, Christoph Gottlieb Scheurl the Elder followed in 1713. J., in 1764 Karl Wilhelm and in 1793 again a Christoph Gottlieb Scheurl von Defersdorf. At that time, the name "Castle Mornek" was already used for the seat. According to Wilhelm Schwemmer's research, there were two contradicting explanations about the origin of the younger castle name: On the one hand, Georg Tetzel is said to have named his new building Mornek Castle, while according to another story, a Bohemian merchant Morne is said to have lived in the castle.

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Pfinzingschloss, panoramic view, September 2013

The seat remained with the family until the death of Christoph Gottlieb Scheurl in 1823. Then it went to his daughter, who had married the postal expeditor David Friedrich Wild, and shortly afterwards to the grandson Gottlieb Friedrich Wild, who sold the manor house to Magdalena Schwemmer in 1847. Several speculative changes of ownership followed until Georg Konrad and Barbara Elise Schmidt acquired the property in 1876. Her daughter Helena and son-in-law Friedrich Scherrbacher took it over in 1887 and set up a small factory in the castle. Around 1900, however, Scherrbacher had to file for bankruptcy, and the Nuremberg stucco shop Otto Schier acquired the property through a foreclosure auction. The company soon swapped the manor house for a Nuremberg property, and numerous changes of ownership followed. In 1943 the space pioneer Hermann Oberth acquired the castle. In 1988 it was sold to the Feucht market, which immediately had a renovation carried out.

The manor house built by Georg Tetzel has edging made of sandstone blocks. In the early modern era, the ground floor consisted of a large paved hall, a milk vault and a fruit vault. On the first floor there were two rooms and two chambers as well as a kitchen, another room with a large Soller (forecourt) and two chambers were on the second floor. Above the house entrance on the inner side, two coats of arms with the year 1568 remind of the builder Georg Tetzel, his first wife Barbara Fütterer and the second, Magdalena Pfinzing. In 1682 there was a single-storey house for the gatekeeper, a draw well, a two-storey adjoining house with apartment buildings, a garden house, the castle barn and the stables in the walled courtyard.

From 1943 to 1988 the castle belonged to the Oberth family. Even during Hermann Oberth's lifetime, a Hermann Oberth Space Museum was housed on the ground floor of the palace , which is now located in an adjoining building.

literature

  • Konrad Bedal: half-timbering before 1600 in Franconia. An inventory . (= Publications and catalogs of the Franconian Open Air Museum of the District of Middle Franconia, vol. 49). 1st edition. Imhof Verlag, Bad Windsheim-Petersberg 2006, ISBN 3-86568-093-3 , p. 248.
  • Volker Alberti, Toni Boesch, Horst Holz: Castles and palaces in Altdorf and the surrounding area, Schwarzachtal - aristocratic residences in Franconia . Published by the Altdorf City Archives, Altdorf 2004, ISBN 3-9809311-0-2 , pp. 77–81.
  • Jörg Rainer Ruthrof: Nuremberg mansions of the Renaissance - On the typology of imperial city buildings . Published by the Altnürnberger Landschaft eV, Simmelsdorf 1999, p. 40.
  • Werner Wilhelm Schnabel: Austrian exiles in Upper German imperial cities . (= Series of publications on Bavarian national history, volume 101). Beck Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 978-3-406-10682-8 , p. 504.
  • W. Fischer, K. Kiener: The Pfinzingschloß - its history - its stories. For the new opening on November 24, 1989 . Feucht 1989.
  • Wilhelm Schwemmer: Alt Feucht. From the history of a market town in the Lorenzer Reichswald . (= Series of publications of the Altnürnberger Landschaft, Volume 25). Verlag Korn und Berg, Nuremberg 1977, ISBN 3-87432-045-6 , pp. 41-47.

Web links

Commons : Pfinzingschloss  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Markt Feucht, Pfinzingschloss
  2. ↑ The detailed history of the castle was taken from: herrensitze.com

Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 29.2 "  N , 11 ° 12 ′ 45.4"  E