Ammerthal Castle

The Ammerthal Castle is a castle in the village of Upper Ammer valley of the Upper Palatinate municipality Ammerthal in Amberg-Sulzbach of Bavaria . It is registered as a monument under monument number D-3-71-111-1 in the list of monuments of the municipality of Ammerthal.

history

In 1587/88 Wolf Haller von Raitenbuch acquired the Oberammerthal and Altammerthal court brands from the Eschenbecks . He had the neglected Ammerthal Castle demolished and a renaissance castle built in Oberammerthal from 1590. In 1597 his son Kaspar Haller, also a councilor in the Palatinate government of the Upper Palatinate in Amberg , is registered as the owner. As a Calvinist, Kaspar Haller had to leave Ammerthal when recatholicization began in the Upper Palatinate, which had fallen to Elector Maximilian I in the course of the Thirty Years' War . He went into exile with his four daughters in the Protestant town of Hersbruck and died here in 1634.

Hanns Christoph Cronach, who married Haller's daughter Sophie, took over the castle and the two court brands. From 1738 to 1750 the property went to Wilhelm von Merz from Zogenreuth , he was also a councilor in Amberg and an officer in the War of the Austrian Succession . Johann Andrä Mertz died in 1754 without a male heir and in 1750 Johann Franz Balthasar Baron von Grießenbeck von Grießenbach acquired both court stamps. He had the castle renewed and refurnished. Since he mostly lived in Amberg in the Grießenbeckpalais (today Raseliushaus) and also owned the court brands Pyrbaum and Sulzbürg near Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate , he had his properties in Ammerthal administered by the government advocate Sebastian Ignaz Coscana. In 1780 the castle passed to the Sulzbach court chamber councilor Christoph Josef Freiherr von Fick . He had married Maria Eleonore von Grießenbeck and was an advisor to the in Sulzbach u. a. Countess Palatine Maria Franziska von Pfalz-Sulzbach, who resided in Schloss Franziskaruhe . When he took over the castle, "the castle fief was entirely after the overthrow". In his second marriage he married a Schmauß von Pullenried . He died in Ammerthal on June 23, 1787 at the age of 53. From 1790 to 1827 Baron von Schmitt, who had married a daughter from the Fick family, became the owner of the castle.

The castle and village of Ammenthal were assigned to the Amberg district court of the Electoral Palatinate , but this remained controversial. In 1832 the Hofmark was dissolved and the castle was managed by a tenant. On May 31, 1832, the last Ammerthal ruler, Rittmeister von Sturm, sold the castle to the carpenter Georg Prechtl from Lengenfelden . He sold it on June 13, 1840 to Bader and Kramer Georg Goßner. From 1870 to 1901 his son Egid Goßner, also Bader and Kramer, is mentioned here. In 1936 the Goßner family was followed by the Lingl, Albersdorfer and Ehbauer families. The palace was exemplary restored by the latter in 1971.

Construction

The Hofmarksschloss, built in 1590, had a defensive character in the early days with a circular wall and key loopholes that are still visible under the roof today . In 1629 a gatekeeper is also mentioned, who lived in the so-called "Gatekeeper House" and had to monitor the archway that existed until 1946. In 1782, Christoph Josef von Fick had three marble coats of arms installed above the castle entrance, the upper one shows the Ammerthal official seal, the Ficks coat of arms is at the bottom left and the Grießenbeck coat of arms on the right.

The castle is a high two-storey plastered solid building with a gable roof . It has a corner bay window as well as gable gates and plaster banding on the northeast corner .

literature

• Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district . Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1991, pp. 37-39.
• Karl Wächter, Günter Moser: In the footsteps of knights and nobles in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach. Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1992, p. 16.

Web links

• Entry on Ammerthal Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
• Ammerthal on aerial photo Laumer, accessed on July 21, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments of the Ammerthal community , accessed on August 4, 2020.
2. ↑ Andreas Ascherl: Ammerthaler Hofmarkschloss opens its doors - a real monument. Onetz from September 12, 2011, accessed on August 6, 2020.

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 26.3 "  N , 11 ° 45 ′ 32.2"  E