Artelshofen Castle

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Photograph from the south-east (around 1894)

Artelshofen Castle is a mansion in Vorra - Artelshofen in the Nuremberg region . The origins of the property probably go back to the late 13th century, the first documented mention dates from 1361, in the 16th century the present, currently well-preserved condition was finally achieved. Artelshofen Castle is privately owned and has been maintained by a non-profit foundation since 2014.

history

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Artelshofen Castle was built around 1300 as a moated castle or pond house on the western bank of the Pegnitz , probably as a residential tower of a local ministerial family surrounded by a moat . The first written mention of the property comes from 1361 as the seat of Heinrich von Sittenbach. In 1522 the property was bought from the von Ploben family to the Nuremberg patrician Anton Tucher .

In 1550 it was extensively rebuilt and extended to the south and a third, protruding upper floor was added. Already two years later it burned down in the course of the Second Margrave War by arson of margrave troops. By the time Lazarus Harsdorfer bought the manor in 1572, it was completely restored. After that, the building was not expanded any more and has largely been preserved in the state it was in the middle of the 16th century, with the exception of the two-step demolition in the course of the 19th century: First, Karl Benedikt Schwarz had the inner wall torn down in 1818 for pragmatic reasons to make it easier to use and drain the moat. Later, in the run-up to the planned construction of the Fichtelgebirgsbahn, farm buildings and the southern fortifications were laid down. In the 1930s the manor house was completely modernized. Heinrich Bischoff acquired the property at the beginning of the 21st century and established the Artelshofen Castle Foundation in 2014 to “promote monument protection, monument and landscape conservation, the preservation of art and cultural assets, nature conservation and social commitment”.

Gentlemen of Artelshofen

Entrance Gate (2015)

In its more than 700-year history, the property on the Pegnitz has often changed owners, and the legal form of the property has also changed. The first documentary mention in 1361 mentions Heinrich von Sittenbach as the owner, the name can be found in geographical objects in Middle Franconia such as Sittenbach or Kirchensittenbach , which presumably came from a Sulzbach ministerial family.

At least until 1408 the seat remained with the Sittenbachs and in 1434 came briefly to Erhart Holdolt, who in turn was the offspring of a Reicheneck ministerial family.

In 1452 the lords of Freudenberg can be identified as owners, in 1453 Albrecht von Freudenberg sold the rule to the Egloffsteins . Wolfram von Egloffstein zu Artelshofen sealed the seal in 1457, and it can be traced back to his family until the early 16th century. After a brief change of ownership, the little castle passed from the maid Amaley Groß via Leonhard von Ploben to the merchant from the powerful Nuremberg patrician family , Anton Tucher . The right of ownership remained with the Ploben until Hans Ebner von Eschenbach acquired it from Leonhard's son-in-law, Jörg Holzschuher , in 1535, as had previously been the case with Tucher in 1531. Hans Ebner is said to have been responsible for the extensive extensions in 1550.

In the early 1570s the property went to the Harsdörffer , who sold it to Hans Jakob Tetzel in 1626 . The estate, which was part of a family foundation from 1722, remained with the Tetzel family until 1748, when the long-standing administrator of the foundation, Hieronymus Wilhelm Ebner, was judicially awarded ownership after the death of the last Artelshofen Tetzel. He dissolved the family foundation in order to institutionalize his own entails two years later . When this branch of the Ebner von Eschenbach family died out in 1793, the foundation was administered by the Haller von Hallerstein until it expired in the early 1810s .

The Nuremberg merchant Karl Benedikt Schwarz acquired the manorial estate from a community of heirs in 1816, whereupon the Bavarian king ennobled him to exercise the same; He too soon created a new family foundation, "whose property rights only expired with the legal repeal of the entails in 1919." The foundation property was then divided between the brothers Benedikt Gottlieb, who received Henfenfeld , and Paul August Benedikt von Schwarz, who took over Artelshofen; this ceded it to Wilhelm von Holzschuher in 1931/32 . Artelshofen Castle remained in his family, from which an ancestor from the Nuremberg patriciate, a member of the Holzschuher von Harrlach, owned the property in the 16th century.

Since then, it has belonged to Heinrich Bischoff, who recently set up a foundation, but this time for non-profit purposes such as the preservation of monuments and the promotion of cultural assets, as of 2018.

Web links

Commons : Artelshofen Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c herrensitze.com: Artelshofen Castle
  2. ↑ Entry on Artelshofen Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved July 10, 2018.

Coordinates: 49 ° 34 ′ 23.8 "  N , 11 ° 29 ′ 50.6"  E