Altenstadt Castle near Vohenstrauss

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Altenstadt Castle (around 1900)

The expired Altenstadt Castle near Vohenstrauss stood next to the fortified church of Altenstadt . Today Altenstadt is a district of Vohenstrauss in the Upper Palatinate

history

At the beginning of the 11th century Altenstadt was owned by the Counts of Sulzbach and belonged to their rule Floss . The previous name of Altenstadt was Vohendreze . Here in 1124 Bishop Otto von Bamberg consecrated a church together with the church of St. Margareta von Leuchtenberg on his first missionary trip to Pomerania . The church in Altenstadt was built as a fortified church. Vohenstrauss was founded in the immediate vicinity and Altenstadt was called Altenvohendreze around 1230 . In 1242 Altenstadt is attested as the seat of a ministerial empire : In a document issued by King Conrad IV for the Teplá monastery, a Wolfelinus de Vohendraz appears as a witness . After the death of Conrad IV, the castles Floss, Parkstein and Luhe went to Duke Heinrich I of Lower Bavaria in 1269 . In 1336 the Propstei Böhmischbruck owned a Curia Wilhardi ( sita aput Antiquam Civitatem ) in Altenstadt . The Waldsassen monastery also had various possessions here. The blood jurisdiction over the Old City exercised in 1357, the Landgrave of Leuchtenberg off or the district court Leuchtenberg. 1369 Altenstadt belongs to the New Bohemian areas .

The first documented owner of the Altenstadt estate was Altmann der Katzdörfer , who is mentioned in 1403 as the keeper of Tännesberg . Successor is Christoph von Parsberg , who in 1449 sold his estate to Hans Pleysteiner . The Pleisteiners, who were related to the Waldauern , had already established a foothold in Altenstadt, because the Landgraves of Leuchtenburg had four estates in Altenstadt, which Rüger the old von Pleystein and his sons Frentzel and Wolfhart received as fiefs in 1357 . According to the oldest Leuchtenberger fief book, Frenzlin von Pleystein was enfeoffed with the four estates. In the 15th century a Jörg Pleiensteiner zu Altenstadt appears , he is also mentioned in the country table of Pfalz-Neuburg in 1514. On December 1, 1528 Georg Pleysteiner , married to Helene von Eglhoffstein , sold his estate for 831 guilders to Niklas Haubner and his wife Katharina . More Country Assen are Niklas Haubner Erben (1552), Christopher Haubner (1565), Christopher Haubner Erben (1579), Martin Haubner (1586), Christoph Karl Haubner (1607), Hans Haubner (1610) and Hans Hopfner (1628), Council citizens of Vohendrazze. His son Michael refused the inheritance and so it was sold to Stephan Schwab (1657). Then it came to Christoph Hauburg (1667). The non-aristocratic country people did not have the lower jurisdiction over their landholders . On November 9th, 1700 Georg Schwab sells the country estate to Johann Ludwig Rieter von Kornburg . His brother Johann Albrecht Andreas Adam Rieter sold his estate to the Duke von Sulzbach in 1708 and incorporated it into the Vohenstrauss office as a private estate or as Hofmark .

Ensemble around the church of Altenstadt
Castle landlord in Altenstadt
Coat of arms on the Schlosswirt

The building and the grounds later became the property of the Weishäupl family , namely to Augustin and Balthasar Weisshäupl , who then opened a butcher's shop and an inn. The estate was later acquired by Lorenz Mühlhofer . This was followed by Salomon Mühlhofer , Friedrich Höllerer's grandfather . Salomon Mühlhofer had the old castle torn down in the summer of 1924 and built a new restaurant and butcher's shop. On April 1, 1957, a major fire destroyed the inn, but it was rebuilt that same year. In 1999, the Schlosswirts-Fritz handed over to his son Wolfgang Höllerer , who still owns the inn today.

building

The Landsassengut Altenstadt formed a closed area with the fortified church there, the cemetery wall and the entrance to the church protected by a gate. It stood next to the church and had a separate, covered entrance to the church. The building was demolished in 1924. Coins, gold rings and jewelry from the 16th century were found in an iron pot. The find was brought to Munich.

A wrought-iron pub sign, which was created around 1709, also hung on the building. Today this is used as a figurehead for the new Gasthof Schlosswirt (Waldthurner Straße 4). In the church of Altenstadt there are still two well-preserved gravestones of Nikolaus Haubner and his descendants. Your coat of arms was once to be found above the main entrance of the "Schlösschen". Today it is located above the entrance to the castle inn.

literature

  • Otto Würschinger: Vohenstrauss in old views . European Library, Zartbommel (Netherlands) 1979.
  • City of Vohenstrauß (Ed.): Vohenstrauß in the course of time: local history on the history of the city on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of its first mention 1378 - 1978. Vohenstrauß 1978, pp. 25–33.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Altbayern Series I, Issue 39: Vohenstrauß. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich, 1977, p. 69.
  2. ↑ Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Altbayern Series I, Issue 39: Vohenstrauß. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich, 1977, p. 76.
  3. ↑ Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Altbayern Series I, Issue 39: Vohenstrauß. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich, 1977, pp. 140f.

Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 58.4 "  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 47.4"  E