Manors loyal upper and lower part
The upper and lower part of the Treuen manor was an estate of the von Feilitzsch family that was divided in 1592/1612 in the town of Treuen in the Saxon Vogtland district . Of the two building complexes, Treuen Castle, which is famous for its half-timbered construction, is more famous today. The manor house of the former Treuen manor is located nearby.
location
The buildings of the former Treuen manors upper and lower part are located in the southwest of the city of Treuen in the Saxon part of the Vogtland . Today's Schloss Treuen lower part is located in Schreiersgrüner Straße 2a west of the Treba and its confluence with the Treuener Wasser , ⊙ the manor house Treuen upper part is east of the Treba at Schloßweg 1a. ⊙
history
9th to 15th centuries
Already around 800 a Slavic moated castle made of wood was built in the Treuener Flur , which was replaced by a stone hilltop castle during the Frankish conquest in the 11th century . This lordly castle was built by the bailiffs of Plauen as part of the state development on a rock spur above the Treuener Wasser. It served to protect and manage their clearing villages. In the 11th century the castle was referred to in documents as "Drewen". The 1214 first mentioned Waldhufendorf faithful received the 1390 city law . When the rule of Plauen was divided into the houses of Plauen-Older Line and Plauen-Reuss in 1306, Treuen Castle came to the Reuss line in 1306 . Treuen Castle was transferred to Vogt Heinrich von Plauen in 1329 as an imperial feud from Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian . In 1367, Emperor Charles IV enfeoffed him again as King of Bohemia with Treuen Castle. The Bohemian kings in turn transferred ownership to their vassals. One of them was the knight Cunrad of Myla, named in 1416. After the castle and rule Treuen came into the possession of the Margraves of Meissen in 1410 , the castle Treuen sank into manorial conditions. Treuen Castle continued to be the administrative and economic center of the manor. During the Hussite Wars (1419 to 1439) the castle was destroyed. In the 16th century, the former rule of Treuen merged with the Amt of Plauen .
16th to 18th century
In 1510, the Imperial Knight Jobst von Feilitzsch received the castle and rule of Treuen von Kunz von Hermannsgrün on Kürbitz and Unterlauterbach . From then on it remained in the possession of this family for a long time. The castle was destroyed before the Thirty Years War (1618 to 1648). Within the von Feilitzsch family, due to inheritance disputes, the property was divided into the upper part of the Treuen manor (Schlossweg 1, Treuen) and the lower part (Schreiersgrüner Str. 2, Treuen), which from then on exercised the lordship over Treuen. The division into the mansions Treuen upper and lower part was finally completed with the loan letters of 1612. The von Feilitzsch family had a representative manor house built on the walls of the former Treuen Castle (upper part) between 1608 and 1610. The lower part of the Treuen manor, on the other hand, emerged from an outbuilding that originally belonged to Treuen Castle. Urban von Feilitzsch bought this from his cousin in 1598. Between 1608 and 1610 he built an appropriate mansion made of timber framing on the grounds of the Vorwerk, today's Treuen Castle, lower part, including the existing farm buildings.
19th century to the present
The upper estate remained in the possession of the von Feilitzsch family until 1857, when it was leased by Karl Gustav Adler. As early as 1858 it came to the Opitz family and in 1918 to the Sörgel family. The lower manor came to the middle class Adler family as early as 1810, who had already taken over the neighboring Unterlauterbach manor in 1744 . Treuen Castle (lower part) was acquired by the Fritzsch family from Chemnitz in 1917, but in the following year it was sold to the last owner, the Belger family from Schwarzenberg . In the course of the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone from 1945 , the Sörgel families as owners of Treuen upper part and Berger as owners of Treuen lower part were expropriated and the land was divided up among new farmers . The lower part of Treuen Castle was made ready for the billeting of resettlers by 1947 , while the surrounding farm buildings were demolished. In the 1970s, the upper part of Treuen's farm buildings were also demolished, but replaced by new courtyard buildings.
Treuen Castle, which was partially renovated between 1987 and 1988, was sold by the city of Treuen in 1993 to a descendant of the last owner, but his plans to build a hotel failed. In 2003 the "Friends of Treuen Castle" auctioned the lower part of Treuen Castle in order to stop the further structural deterioration of the castle. Then the renovation of the building began. While the lower part of Treuen Castle is now used by the Friends' Association for various events, the upper part of the Treuen manor is now used for private residential purposes. The farm buildings in the upper part of Treuen are used today by the "Gut Treuen" farm.
Building description
Treuen Castle lower part
The representative mansion of Treuen Castle, which is still preserved today, is a half-timbered building with St. Andrew's crosses , two asymmetrical transepts, a brick stair tower with a Welscher hood and a cellar with barrel vaults . The building was erected in three construction phases. The massive ground floor with the gable-like structure was built after 1595. The stamp on the upper floor was made around 1625. After the estate complex was demolished after 1945, only the current castle remained.
Manor house Treuen upper part
The manor house of the former Treuen manor is a representative plastered building that was built in the first quarter of the 20th century in the reform style and was rebuilt in the style of the founding period . The castle-like, two-storey plastered building has a semicircular veranda with half-columns attached to the slope. The building has central projections on both sides, with a front gable on the slope. In the arched area there is a coat of arms depicting a lion. The building has a hipped mansard roof and dormers with pitched roofs . The stairwell has stained glass windows from the 1920s. Inside there is a wooden staircase with a gallery. The farm buildings were replaced by new buildings in the 1970s.
Web links
- Entry on Treuen Castle upper part in the private database “All castles”.
- Entry on Treuen Castle lower part in the private database “All Castles”.
- History of Loyalty on the website of the City of Loyalty
- The Treuen estate, lower part on www.sachsens-schlösser.de
- The upper part of the Treuen manor on www.sachsens-schlösser.de
- Treuen Castle lower part on www.burgentour.bike
- The upper part of the Treuen manor on www.burgentour.bike
- List of the owners of the upper and lower part of the Treuen manors until 1945
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Treuen manor in the lower part on www.sachsens-schlösser.de
- ^ The upper part of the Treuen manor at www.sachsens-schlösser.de
- Jump up ↑ The upper and lower part of the manors Treuen on www.heykodehn.de
- ↑ The Unterlauterbach manor at www.sachsens-schösser.de
- ↑ Website of the Friends of Treuen Castle