Wildenfels care office

Coordinates: 50 °  N , 11 °  E

The outer palace wall of the Wildenfels castle ruins , the former administrative seat of the Wildenstein nursing office in Nuremberg

The land area of ​​the imperial city of Nuremberg

The Wildenfels nursing office was one of the areas that at times comprised more than a dozen nursing offices with which the imperial city of Nuremberg had organized the administration of its territorial property.

history

The establishment of the Wildenfels nursing office goes back to the acquisition of Wildenfels Castle, which was first mentioned in 1323, by the imperial city of Nuremberg. As early as 1431, the Imperial City Council had succeeded in obtaining the right to open the castle complex. This right was granted to her by the lord of the castle at the time, Hans III. Wildenstein , who himself did military service in the armed forces of the imperial city. In the following decades there were several changes of ownership before the castle complex was acquired by two Nuremberg citizens in 1509 . But just two years later they sold the property to their hometown, who initially placed their new acquisitions under the care of the Hiltpoltstein nursing office and initially entrusted the administrative tasks on site to a Vogt who lived at the castle . In 1518 the imperial city set up the Wildenstein nursing office, whose newly appointed nurse now resided at Wildenfels Castle. This was captured and burned down during the second margravial war on May 27, 1552 by troops of the Brandenburg-Kulmbach margrave Albrecht Alcibiades . At the end of this war, which was extremely costly for all the powers involved, the imperial city was able to assert itself militarily with great difficulty, but Wildenfels Castle was not rebuilt. Only the Vogthaus located below the ruins in the castle yard was restored. In the following decades this functioned as an office building for the Wildensteiner Vogt, who was now again subject to the directives of the Hiltpoltsteiner Pfleger. A separate nurse for the Wildenstein nursing office, which nominally still exists, was not reinstated by the Imperial City Council. In 1625, the existence of the administrative area finally ended after the council had ordered its abolition in order to save costs and the previous territory of the Wildenfels nursing office was now formally incorporated into the Hiltpoltstein nursing office.

literature

• Sigmund Benker, Andreas Kraus (Ed.): History of Franconia up to the end of the 18th century . 3. Edition. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-39451-5 .
• Peter Fleischmann: Nursing offices in the country . In: Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( complete edition online ).
• Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 .
• Eckhardt Pfeiffer (Ed.): Nürnberger Land . 3. Edition. Karl Pfeiffer's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Hersbruck 1993, ISBN 3-9800386-5-3 .
• Wilhelm Schwemmer, Gustav Voit: Lauf - Hersbruck . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1967.
• Robert Giersch, Andreas Schlunk, Bertold Frhr. von Haller: Castles and mansions in the Nuremberg countryside . Ed .: Altnürnberger Landschaft. W. Tümmels Buchdruckerei und Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Nuremberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020677-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Robert Giersch, Andreas Schlunk, Bertold Frhr. von Haller: Castles and mansions in the Nuremberg countryside . S. 494-497 .
2. ^ Peter Fleischmann: Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . Ed .: Michael Diefenbacher, Rudolf Endres. 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 , p. 823 . ( Online ).
3. ^ Peter Fleischmann: Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . Ed .: Michael Diefenbacher, Rudolf Endres. 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 , p. 1180 . ( Online ).
4. ^ Eckhardt Pfeiffer (Ed.): Nürnberger Land . 3. Edition. Karl Pfeiffer's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Hersbruck 1993, ISBN 3-9800386-5-3 , p. 118 .