Altendorf Castle

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Altendorf Castle
Altendorf Castle
Altendorf Castle

The listed Altendorf Castle is located in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Altendorf in the Schwandorf district of Bavaria (Alte Schulstraße 8; Schloßweg 1).

history

Altendorf was the seat of the Counts of Altendorf . These are first mentioned in a document in 1118, when the noble Erchenbert von Altendorf appeared as a witness at the margravial donation of an estate to the Reichenbach monastery . Erchenbert had two sons, Heinrich II. And Friedrich , from whom Heinrich II. Received Altendorf. Heinrich II von Altendorf had been Vogt of St. Emmeram Monastery since 1180 . In 1183 he was first referred to with the title Comes . Under Wolfgang von Altendorf , the goods complex around Altendorf came to the Wittelsbach Duke Ludwig the Strict in 1265 . In the 80s of the 13th century a separate Altendorf office is described here in the Urbarium transdanubianae .

On August 9, 1311, under Duke Rudolf , Marshal Egggbrecht der Crätzel and his wife Agnes , born in Paulsdorf , were enfeoffed with a courtyard behind the church in Altendorf. Also Marquard and Henry Zenger were invested with various possessions in Altendorf. The people of Plankenfels were also wealthy here.

According to the Upper Palatinate Landsassenmatrikel, two seats in Altendorf, namely Altendorf Castle and Schallerschloss , have been confirmed since the beginning of the 16th century .

In 1502 the brothers Michael and Hans Per (Peer, Bern, Pere) were given the old Burgstall in the village of Altendorff for their merits . In 1539 the property passed to the brothers Friedrich , Hans , Balthasar , Anton and Caspar Per . After a few deaths, only Hans and Friedrich Per are recorded here from 1544 . It was meant to them that the Sy melten Burgstal should essentially and peulich do and reverberate . Presumably for cost reasons, the property was sold by the brothers to Hans von Plankenfels in 1550 . This combined his other possessions in Altendorf with the castle stables to form a manor. The son of the same name who followed him sold his fiefdom as the seat and castle stable in Altendorf, including all accessories, to doctus Gabriel Gienger . The tests Gienger, the other gentlemen belonging subjects to acquire locally by exchange, were from the Nabburgischen nurses Ludwig Wurm , and later Michael of goats Thal rejected. Likewise, he failed to split his fiefdom in order to give part of it to his son. His son Hans Endres Gienger was enfeoffed with all Upper Palatinate and Leuchtenberg fiefs in 1609, as his father had granted them.

In 1616 the owner decided to sell his country estate to Ludwig Steinhauser , judge of the Walderbach monastery . He died in 1617 and so the estate passed to Albert Gerhard von Löschwitz on Willhof . In the same year he sold the estate to Hanns Christoph von Kürmreuth , who was enfeoffed in 1619. As a Catholic, he was able to keep his possessions even during the Thirty Years War until his death († around 1650). The fallen fiefdom was given to his brother-in-law Georg Wilhelm Fuchs in 1658 . In 1661, he sold the rule to Albrecht Wilhelm von Schellenberg . This family saved the Burgstall, which had been devastated during the Thirty Years' War, from final ruin. Franz Sigmund von Schellenberg had a new castle built towards the end of the 17th century, which he was able to move into in 1700. In 1707 he applied to the Amberg government to convert the previous man and knight fiefdom into a continuous fiefdom, which was also approved by the court chamber in Munich in 1709. Since the Schellenberger died childless in 1728, the new fiefdom became effective. Through his sister Isabella Eleonora Horneck , the property passed to her husband Johann Friedrich Horneck , chief forest manager and carer in Rötz , and to her brother-in-law Rudolph Albrecht Horneck von Hornberg , lieutenant elector. From November 2, 1750, he ran the Hofmark alone. His son Anton Freiherr von Horneck separated from the property in 1780 and sold the estate to Caspar Bernclau Freiherr von Schönreuth . He was also the master of the Fronhof and the allodial Altendorf estate . In 1794 he exchanged all of his property for the Bohemian feudal lordship of Frauenstein and Reichenstein from the Electoral Cologne ambassador Maximilian Joseph Freiherrn von Karg . Since Baron Karg died before the formal fiefdom ceremony, his wife Maria Anna von Karg , née Beberich, tried to get recognition of her sole inheritance, which was also confirmed by the state administration in Amberg on May 19, 1802. The court attorney Georg Jakob Posenecker was chosen as the fiefdom holder for them . In 1809 Maria Anna von Karg applied for the sale of Altendorf to Anton Baron Sauer von Zangenstein , for which she also received a letter of consensus.

Under Baron Sauer , the continuous man and woman knightly fiefdom became an allodial property in 1812. In 1821 a second class patrimonial court was established here , but the lower jurisdiction associated with the fief was transferred to the district court of Nabburg for administrative purposes. On October 6, 1821, jurisdiction was finally withdrawn from the Nabburg Regional Court.

Altendorf Castle today

The dilapidated, but listed building of the former castle is a three-story long-wing building with a hipped roof from the 17th and 18th centuries. The south portal has an explosive gable. There are still vaults on the ground floor . A stair tower is built to the east; parts of the original Romanesque building are also incorporated here. The stone barn opposite dates from 1817.

literature

  • Elisabeth Müller-Luckner: Nabburg (pp. 117–130). (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern booklet 50). Commission for Bavarian State History, Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7696-9915-7 .

Web links

Commons : Altendorf Castle  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of listed objects in Altendorf

Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 18.7 "  N , 12 ° 16 ′ 53.3"  E