Brombach Castle

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Brombach Castle after an engraving by Michael Wening from 1721

The defunct Brombach Castle was located in the Lower Bavarian municipality of Brombach in the Rottal-Inn district of Bavaria .

history

Around 1130 Brombach is mentioned as the seat of a noble family. As Hofmark , Brombach is in the hands of the Siegersdorfer family from 1494–1599. In 1599, Antonio Siegersdorfer, Pfleger zu Dietfurt , sold Hofmark and the castle to Wolf Ernreich von Püring zu Sigharting. In 1603 or 1604 the property fell to his brother Hans Carl after the death of Wolf Ernreich († October 8, 1603/04). After his death, his sons Hans Ulrich and Georg Ernreich inherited the fiefdom . After the death of Hans Ulrich († 1638), Freiherr zu Püring, the use was passed on to his brother Georg Ernreich. This was a Jesuit and thus also the last of the Puringian family. Although the fiefdom would have had to revert to the Duke of Bavaria after his death, the rector of the Jesuit college in Ingolstadt, Johann Glickhen, was allowed by the elector Maximilian I to sell the Hofmark Brombach on to a secular fiefdom as a man knight's fief. Martin Pekh, city judge in Passau, was found to be such . Since this was not knightly, a resolution order was first issued in the manner that one would have rather seen a nobleman as a buyer. Nevertheless, the buyer received the fiefdom in January 1643. Since Martin Pekh died without a male heir in 1645, the fiefdom came to his two underage daughters Maria Barbara and Maria Rosina on the basis of a pardon. Hans Georg von Hienheim, known as the Elsenberger, who also owned Baumgarten Castle at the time, acted as fief carrier . In 1667 Georg Wilhelm Molzer, Passau court and chamber councilor and husband of Maria Barbara Pekh received the fief, also for his descendants. After his death († 1682) Brombach fell to his son Johann Romanus Molzer.

On June 11, 1709, Johann Bernhard Goder zu Walchsing received Brombach, having bought the Hofmark from the previous owner with the approval of the sovereign. In 1716 Brombach is in the hands of the brothers Adam Franz Xaver and Franz Joseph Antoni von Goder zu Walchsing and Kriestorf. After the death of Franz Joseph Antoni, who was a clergyman, Adam Franz Xaver received the entire fief in 1737. 1778 is Johann Nepomuk Goder, Knight of the Order of St. George , the Hofmark Postmünster and the offices of Afterhausen , Hofstetten and Eitting, also Brombach. After his death († March 1, 1789) the fief went first to the sovereign, but on August 16, 1790 to Anna Violanda Reichsfreifrau von Dachsberg, née Countess von Goder. Brombach was incorporated into Count Goder's possessions as Godersches allodial property . Since Anna Violanda died on August 9, 1792, her daughters Maria Anna von Herold and Maria Josepha Countess of Lamberg and, after a settlement on September 3, 1799, took over the inheritance in Brombach alone to Countess Maria Josepha. In 1817 Brombach came to Baroness von Hofmiller and the following year to Baroness Venningen, née Baroness von Dalberg.

The defunct Brombach Castle

Brombach Castle has not been inhabited by the noble lords of the court since 1522, but left to the respective farm owner and therefore used for agriculture. That is why the building was run down accordingly and finally canceled.

Today nothing is left of the Brombach Castle. The former castle chapel from the 14th century is still preserved. This was changed in the 18th century and received a baroque interior. As a side church of St. James the Elder , it now belongs to the parish of Hirschbach .

literature

  • Ilse Louis: Parish churches. The nursing courts Reichenberg and Julbach and the rule Ering-Frauenstein. (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Old Bavaria, issue 31). Verlag Michael Laßleben, Munich 1973. ISBN 3 7696 9878 9 .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 26 ′ 37 ″  N , 13 ° 0 ′ 50 ″  E