Förbau manor

Förbau Castle

Manor after the fire in 1903

The manor Förbau is an abandoned manor in Förbau , today a district of Schwarzenbach an der Saale in Upper Franconia .

The seat of "Forwein" was first mentioned in 1390 in the possession of the von Hirschberg family , who had owned Schwarzenbach Castle (on the Saale) since 1381 . The early sources speak of an upper and a lower residence. Karl Dietel suspects the Förbau ring wall in the upper residence . In 1482 a moated castle was built , which was destroyed in the Thirty Years War and replaced by successor buildings. The manor Förbau was one of the seats of the Vogtland knighthood and was equipped with a high court and a writing room. It last belonged to the von Schönburg-Waldenburg family . For the construction of the Förmitztalsperre it was acquired by the public sector and the existing structure was demolished. The street names Schloßgasse and Schloßberg remind of the location .

literature

• August Gebeßler : City and District of Hof . The Art Monuments of Bavaria , Brief Inventories , Volume VII . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1960, p. 42.
• Dietmar Herrmann, Helmut Süssmann: Fichtel Mountains, Bavarian Vogtland, Steinwald, Bayreuther Land. Lexicon . Ackermannverlag, Hof (Saale) 2000, ISBN 3-929364-18-2 , p. 179 f .
• Wilhelm Malter : Upper Franconia East . Heroldsberg 1984, p. 347.
• Friedrich von Schönburg-Waldenburg, Rudolf Timper: History of Schwarzenbach an der Saale . Schwarzenbach an der Saale 1908, pp. 106–111.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl Dietel : The castle stable on the Heidberg near Förbau (Ldkr. Hof) . In: Der Siebenstern , January / February 1959, pp. 1–4.

Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 27 "  N , 11 ° 54 ′ 19.8"  E