Bernstein Castle

Amber Castle and Church

Former Bernstein coat of arms with coat of arms elements in memory of those of Rorer and von Sparneck

Bernstein Castle is a castle complex in Bernstein , now part of Wunsiedel .

history

The castle was built around 1200. The von Rorer family , occupied by Peter Rorer in 1360, was one of the owners . In 1613 the von Sparneck bought the residence. After they had found safety within the city walls of Wunsiedel during the Thirty Years' War , they continued to expand amber in 1648. The castle was a senior citizen's fief of the von Sparneck family , which they and Dörflas castle kept until it died out in 1744. Elisabeth Jäger did a great job researching the Sparneck Reichslehen. The right of church patronage also belonged to the possession of the castle . In the church there are three epitaphs belonging to the von Sparneck family, a children's tombstone could not yet be clearly assigned. The Sparneck family was heir to the von Reitzenstein family .

literature

Peter Braun: The gentlemen from Sparneck. Family tree, distribution, brief inventory . In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia . Volume 82, 2002, pp. 71-106.
Johann Theodor Benjamin Helfrecht : Ruins, antiquities and still standing locksmiths on and on the Fichtelgebirge. One try. 1795. p. 53. ( online )
Bernhard Hermann Röttger : District of Wunsiedel and urban district of Marktredwitz . Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern , VIII. Administrative Region Upper Franconia, Volume 1. Munich 1954, ISBN 3-486-41941-2 , pp. 80–89.
Friedrich Wilhelm Singer : The old part of the street Gefrees - Eger . In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia , 43rd volume. Bayreuth 1963. pp. 91-93.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Bernstein - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Aerial photo with the BayernAtlas

Individual evidence

↑ see picture under Eckersberg (noble family)

50.073318 12.056075Coordinates: 50 ° 4 '23.9 " N , 12 ° 3' 21.9" E

[1] see picture under Eckersberg (noble family)