Emhof Castle

Emhof Palace after an engraving by Johann Georg Hämmerl the Younger around 1800

Emhof Castle is a castle in the village of the same name, Emhof , which has been part of the Upper Palatinate market town of Schmidmühlen in the Amberg-Sulzbach district in Bavaria since 1946 .

history

Emhof is mentioned for the first time in 997 in the traditions of the Emmeram monastery . There it is certified that the abbot Ramwod gives the interest of a hat for the lights (meaning the eternal light ) in the chapels "Premberg and Emmhofen".

Hans Georg von Gleißenthal

The first owners of the manor from the 11th to 14th centuries were the Emhofer (first mentioned in 1126), in 1343 Ulrich Emhofer was named and in 1385 another Hans Emhofer . In this follow bowlers , so 1347 Ott young Chegler of Emhofen and mid-15th century, the Amringer . Is mentioned Stephan Amringer (1458). On August 1, 1523, Willhelm von Schlammersdorf is named. On December 31, 1555, Oswald von Gleissenthal was the local owner, then Hans Georg von Gleisenthal , formerly prelate of the Speinshart monastery and later Vicedom von Amberg (* around 1507 in Emhof, † 1589 in Speinhard), his tombstone is in Neustadt am Kulm . He was followed by his son-in-law Tobias Herstenzki von Herstein , a nobleman of Bohemian descent. Then Julius Visconti († 1656) is based here. In 1665 the Hofmark passed to Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Muggenthal . From 1670 to 1769 the Maffey are the local owners; they later moved to Munich and were the founders of the famous Krauss-Maffei works . This was followed by the Barons von Rummel in 1769–1800 . The noble Emhof estate of Count von der Goltz zu Marienwerder in West Prussia was auctioned off in 1813 by the royal district court Burglengenfeld.

In 1810 the Amberg pharmacist Adam von Fassmann acquired Emhof Castle . He had this demolished with its square tower in 1816. During his temporary absence, the workers destroyed the archive housed in the tower . On the site of the demolished castle, the "new castle" was built in 1816/1817. On the upper floor there is said to be a room with landscapes from 1820 painted on the wall. With the stables listed within the ring , a hunter's house and a gate, this was still a respectable facility. The castle later became a brewery and then an inn, today it is used as a residential building.

Emhof gained a certain fame during the War of the Spanish Succession , when Margrave Georg Friedrich von Brandenburg-Ansbach was fatally wounded here in the Battle of Schmidmühlen , a plaque in the St. Jacobus Church commemorates this event.

An iron hammer is said to have been located in Emhof in the Middle Ages . However, there is no further information. The only thing that is certain is the existence of a mill , which was converted into a mirror glass loop and a polishing plant in the 19th century . Today there is still a small hydropower plant here.

Emhof Palace today (2013)

Emhof Palace today

The “new castle” was built on the site of the demolished Emhof Castle in 1816/17. This castle later became a brewery, then an inn, now it serves as a residential building.

literature

Georg Hager. The art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Second volume. Administrative regions of Upper Palatinate and Regensburg. Issue 5: District Office Burglengenfeld. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1906, pp. 49-51.

Web links

Commons : Emhof (Schmidmühlen) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Rummel, the barons of . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 27th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1874, p. 258 ( digitized version ).
^ Announcement of the auction of the Emhof estate by the royal district court Burglengenfeld on February 13, 1813
↑ Franz Michael Ress: History and economic importance of the Upper Palatinate iron industry from the beginning to the time of the 30-year war. Negotiations of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, Volume 91, Regensburg 1950, p. 172.
^ Reinhard Dähne & Wolfgang Roser: The Bavarian Iron Road from Pegnitz to Regensburg. House of Bavarian History , Volume 5, Munich 1988, p. 34.

49.23748 11,931 418Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 14.9 ″ N , 11 ° 55 ′ 51.6 ″ E

[1] Constantin von Wurzbach : Rummel, the barons of . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 27th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1874, p. 258 ( digitized version ).

[2] Announcement of the auction of the Emhof estate by the royal district court Burglengenfeld on February 13, 1813

[3] Franz Michael Ress: History and economic importance of the Upper Palatinate iron industry from the beginning to the time of the 30-year war. Negotiations of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, Volume 91, Regensburg 1950, p. 172.

[4] Reinhard Dähne & Wolfgang Roser: The Bavarian Iron Road from Pegnitz to Regensburg. House of Bavarian History , Volume 5, Munich 1988, p. 34.