Burggrub Castle (Krummennaab)

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Burggrub Castle - aerial view

The former Burggrub Castle is located in the district of the same name in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Krummennaab in the Tirschenreuth district of Bavaria (Burggrub 11).

history

Burggrub was a fiefdom of the burgraves of Nuremberg , who were also margraves of Brandenburg and thus electors . The residence was built by the Trautenbergers , who also founded the Trautenberg Castle in the immediate vicinity . They kept Burggrub until around 1350. Peter von Mylin (Mylein) was the owner. After barely 20 years he sold the property with his dwelling in Grub (the place was called "Gruob" at the time) and the desert Mittelreut in 1373 to Ulrich von Redwitz and his brother Jörg; both were ministerials to the Landgraves of Leuchtenberg . Wolfart der Trautenberger von Reuth, Frenzlein Pleysteiner and Fritz Bernsteiner acted as witnesses to the transfer of ownership. In 1408 Hans von Redwitz zu Grub was enfeoffed with goods at Windischeschenbach (Harleshof) and Störnstein (Ernsthof). In 1442, Count Palatine Johann I gave Reinhard Redwitzer von Grub and his brothers Erhart and Vollant the fiefs that had fallen back due to the death of the chief foodie Konrad von Holnstein , especially Holnstein Castle and other possessions in and around Sulzbach .

In 1487 Jordan von Redwitz zu Grub lent numerous properties around Sulzbach to local citizens. In 1512 he was also a mountain judge in Erbendorf . After the death of his father Jordan, Christoph took over the estate in 1521. With him, the Redwitz zu Grub line died out on Burggrub in 1565 and the fiefdom fell back to the sovereign. In 1567, Margrave Georg Friedrich von Brandenburg lent the Burggrub fiefdom to Georg Ott von Brandt († 1581). His son Hans Georg von Brandt remained unmarried and died without an heir in Hungary in 1596 in the fight against the Turks .

In 1597 the Margrave lent the Burggrub estate , which had now fallen back, to Georg Sebastian Stieber von Pretzfeld with the Trautenberg estate. However, in the same year he sold the two goods to Hans von der Grün auf Weihersberg and his brothers Hans Christoph, Balthasar and Philipp Jacob. Hans von der Grün and his three brothers were sons of the hammer mill owner Hans von der Grün and his wife Barbara, the daughter of Erasmus Sauerzapf von Sulzbach and his wife Anna, née Löhneysen von Weyhersberg. In 1599, Hans von der Grün built a new castle on the site of the old castle. A marble plaque was placed on the courtyard side above the entrance with the inscription "Dises Hauß erbauet whar Alß man schrib 1599 Jahr" and the letters "HVDG" and "SOVD". The letters mean: Hans von der Grün and his wife Susanne Österreicher von Deublitz (Teublitz). New agricultural buildings were also built and everything was repaired. In 1608 he had a new castle built in Trautenberg . After his death († November 1, 1626) his two sons Pankraz and Johann Georg took over the inheritance, whereby Pankraz, carer in Wetterfeld , Burggrub, and Johann Georg Trautenberg took over. Since he was a Protestant , he had to sell his property in the course of the Counter Reformation .

In 1629, his cousin Veit Friedrich Sauerzapf, who had become a Catholic, bought the property. His brother Veit Hans managed the castle estate from 1630 and received it as a fiefdom in 1639 after the death of his brother. After his death († 1660), the last of the brothers, Hans Ludwig Sauerzapf († 1668), took over the property. With his second wife, Anna Magdalena Rütschel von Hartenbach, he fathered the family owner Erdmann Christoph Ludwig († 1715), the ancestor of the Sauerzapfs at Burggrub, who remained there until 1861. His successor was his son Johann Christoph Wilhelm von Sauerzapf († 1759). He was followed in 1760 by Johann Adam von Sauerzapf (died by suicide on June 11, 1797). The captain Franz Carl von Sauerzapf was then in 1798 by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. , who was also elector of Brandenburg, enfeoffed with castle grave. The last of the Sauerzapf was Alexander Franz Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Sauerzapf (* 1795). He had participated in various military campaigns, after which he was captain of the gendarmerie for a short time, then he quit his service and in 1821 took over his parents' property. He remained unmarried and so after his death († January 13, 1861) the estate passed to his heir Baron Schilling von Cannstadt auf Hohenwettersbach. He sold the economically burdened property to a Mr. von Ziegler, who "smashed" the property. The remaining part came into the hands of the middle-class Bauer family, of whom the farmer Heinrich Bauer still owns the remaining property with the former castle building.

Burggrub Castle today

The former castle is located on a small hill on the orographic right bank of the Fichtelnaab . On the castle building is the listed coat of arms stone of the former Landsassenschloss, which u. a. bears the year "1599".

literature

  • Heribert Sturm: Kemnath. District judge office Waldeck-Kemnath with sub-office Pressath (p. 141 ff). (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern issue 40). Commission for Bavarian State History, Verlag Michael Laßleben , Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7696-9902-5 .
  • Heribert Sturm (1978): Neustadt an der Waldnaab, Weiden (p. 149 ff). (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern issue 47). Commission for Bavarian State History, Verlag Michael Laßleben, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-7696-9912-2 .

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Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 31.6 "  N , 12 ° 5 ′ 44.8"  E