Eschenbach Castle

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eschenbach Castle today

The Eschenbach Castle is a Grade II listed building in the district of Eschenbach Middle Franconian municipality Pommelsbrunn in Nuremberg County of Bavaria (Eschenbach 406). The building is bordered on the south-east by the Hirschbach and on the south-west by the Pegnitz . It has been owned by the Ebner von Eschenbach family since 1508 .

history

The castle was built as a moated castle in 1230. In the 13th century, the area was owned by the Reichsministeriale von Hartenstein and Neidstein , who was related to them , who acted as subordinates of the Bamberg monastery , representing the high bailiffs (these were originally the Counts of Sulzbach , from 1188 the Staufers and after 1266/69 the Wittelsbachers ). The Bamberg Monastery was able to preserve the feudal rights to it until the end of the Old Kingdom in 1802. After the Hartenstein and Neidstein family died out, Eschenbach came under the sovereignty of the Reicheneck taverns in 1324 . The castle in Eschenbach itself was inhabited by ministerials ; since 1230/38 these were the lords of Eschenbach, also called Eschenbecken . After 1330, Eschenbach was owned by the Türriegel von Riegelstein family of ministers .

In 1367 Dietrich Türriegel sold the "House Eschenbach with all other fiefs" to Hermann Erlbeck , who told his liege Walter III the property. Give up from Reicheneck. In 1382 Ulrich von Reicheneck lived here with his brother-in-law Stephan von Wolfstein. Obviously, the Reichenecker had meanwhile taken over the right to use Eschenbach from the Erlbeck. After Ulrich von Reicheneck's death (before 1389), Eschenbach came to his widow Margarethe von Wolfstein .

Eschenbach Castle (around 1600)
Eschenbach Castle after a copper engraving by Johann Adam Delsenbach from 1725

In 1403 the brothers Hans, Wolf and Wygleis von Wolfstein sold their "dwelling" in Eschenbach with all goods and rights to the Nuremberg mining entrepreneur Heinrich Harsdörffer and his wife Margarethe. In that year the moated castle fell under the sovereignty of the free imperial city of Nuremberg . In 1414 Albrecht von Wolfstein raised manorial claims to the Lower Hammer zu Hirschbach, only two kilometers away . The hundred-year rule of the Harsdorfers ended with the death of Hans Harsdorfer (1511). He had divided the castle and the associated goods among his three daughters Katharina, Ursula and Anna.

On January 17, 1508, through his marriage to Ursula, daughter of Hans Harsdörffer (chief mint master in Kuttenberg and chief mountain official in Bohemia ), the transfer to Hanns III. Ebner (1482-1552). In 1528 he was able to acquire the second third of the castle and estate from his wife's older sister Katharina. The share of the younger sister Anna went to the Volckamer . During the Second Margrave War , mercenaries of Margrave Albrecht Alcibiades destroyed Eschenbach Castle on July 4, 1552 because Hans III. Ebner had refused the requested payment of arson to the margrave. The castle was rebuilt in its current form in 1554 by Hans IV. Ebner. On an engraving from 1725 about Eschenbach Castle "as it was built in the beginning" you can find the alliance coat of arms of Ebner and Harsdörffer.

Apart from a break between 1667 and 1676, the Ebner family still owns the castle today. During these ten years Maria Helena Ebner, née Fürer , and Margarete Ebner sold the property to Johann Friedrich von Wimpffen . This Friedrich subsequently took over financially, embezzled city funds as a slogan officer, was arrested in 1668 and died in prison that same year. Eschenbach was placed under compulsory administration by the city council of Nuremberg and in 1676 was repurchased by the Ebner family for 12,000 guilders.

Eschenbach Castle then and now

Eschenbach Castle

The former moated castle appears today essentially in the form it was rebuilt in 1554. The castle has a three-story palace whose walls may goes back on the ground floor of the main building to the 13th century. A three-storey wing structure was also erected on the northeast corner in 1554/55. In 1559 the farm buildings in the outer bailey were completed. The pointed helmet tower dates from 1885. Around 1830, the outer wall was removed except for one of the four round towers, the west tower, which was restored in 1863, also known as the "Fox Tower" (former prison). The moat was filled in between 1736 and 1740. On the south side of the courtyard there is a wall with a battlement.

In the castle there is an ancestral hall (around 1730) with a collection of oil portraits of members of the Ebner families.

The castle is designated by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as an architectural monument (D-5-74-147-32) and ground monument (D-5-6434-0169).

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Pommelsbrunn (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, p. 3 (PDF)
  2. ^ Franz Michael Ress, 1960, p. 125.

Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '46.8 "  N , 11 ° 29' 25.4"  E