Fischbach Castle (Nittenau)

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Fischbach Castle

The listed Fischbach Castle is located in the district of the same name in the Upper Palatinate community of Nittenau in the Schwandorf district of Bavaria (Nittenauer Straße 18).

history

Fischbach was in the Rechart forest area , which was also called Roshaupt in 1156 and belonged to the Nittenau Forest and thus to the Nittenau estate. King Heinrich II endowed the diocese of Bamberg with it on November 1, 1007 . To 1123 paid Bishop Otto I the ensdorf abbey with possessions in the woods Rechart and Durne , which until his death the precious free ( vir nobilis ) Friedrich of hops High-Pettendorf-Lengenfeld († April 3, 1119) from the Diocese of Bamberg as a fiefdom had held. In 1329 a Herr Witiben von Vischbach is attested and in 1363 his son Ortlieb der Witzel . But Hanns der Kemnater is notarized here as early as 1365 . Then Fischbach came into the hands of Ruger von Tüsten . The brothers Ruger and Hans die Tannhauser bought it from him . They had a dispute with the Ensdorf monastery around 1400, in the course of which the monastery lost its ownership in Fischbach and only kept the interest from there.

Albrecht von Wirsperg , district judge and caretaker of Neunburg vorm Wald , acquired the Nittenau property from the Ensdorf monastery in 1512; the monastery was forced to sell property due to a fire in 1507. In 1512 he merged the Stockenfels and Fischbach lords . He also had the right (so-called church sentence ) to propose the pastor of Fischbach, the right to tithe, the bailiwick and the feudal right over the property of the church of Fischbach. In 1841, the owners of the Stockenfels-Fischbach estate exercised the right of patronage . By marrying a daughter of Hans Thanhauser the Younger, Albrecht von Wirsberg came to the seat of Fischbach, which he handed over to the Count Palatinate of Palatinate-Neuburg as part of an agreement on the rule of Stockenfels . On August 26, 1509, the Count Palatine Ludwig and Friedrich also bought back the Nittenau market from Albrecht von Wirsberg, which had been sold to the Wirsberg with the right to redeem it by their father, Philip the Sincere . In 1533 Thomas von Reitzenstein sold Fischbach Castle and Stockenfels with their affiliations to the knight Christoff Plarer, captain of Regensburg. Since Thomas von Reitzenstein had not yet reimbursed the purchase price until his death, the property reverted to him. From this, Stockenfels and Fischbach went to Plankenstein on New Year's Eve, who sold them to the knight Walter von Habsberg zu Rackenstein in 1545 . Between this and the Plankensteiners there were “errors” in 1546, during which the latter was granted permission to take over the two goods again and to pledge them to his guarantors. After Plankenstein's death, his guarantors sold the property to Sebald Rech von Rechenberg in 1553, as the debts had not yet been settled . However, even this could not redeem the guarantees and so the Palatinate redeemed the possessions and withdrew them.

In 1558 the Reichenbach Monastery acquired the Stockenfels-Fischbach rule from Elector Ottheinrich of the Palatinate, but sold it on February 22, 1565 to Hans Schott, Councilor and Court Master of Count Palatine Ludwig . This achieved the transformation of the previous man fief into a real knight, man and parent fief. Fischbach and Stockenfels remained in the possession of the Schott family until 1618. Konrad Schott was forced to sell his goods because of his significant debts and so both properties came to the Burgraves of Dohna . Christoph von Dohna, district judge at Neunburg , wrote the reverse letter for himself and his brothers Friedrich, Fabian the Younger, Abraham, Dietrich and Achaz on May 26, 1620. Since Christoph von Dohna as followers of the winter king Friedrich in imperial ban fell, pulled Emperor Frederick II. The fief in 1621 and presented it to the prince Johann to Hohenzollern . He was succeeded by Prince Menrad von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen on September 30, 1643.

On the right the old rectory, on the left the church of St. Jacobus, on the right a part of the castle

After the Peace of Westphalia , the Dohna heirs were reinstated on Stockenfels and Fischbach by order of Elector Maximilian . In 1680 the brothers Friedrich Karl, Dietrich Christoph Friedrich and Christoph Grafen von Dohna are registered as fiefs. Georg Wegele - later owner of the Wetterfeld castle estate - managed the two fiefs as a tenant under Count Dohna . In 1686, Christoph Leopold Graf von Thürheim acquired these goods. Since Stockenfels was badly damaged in the Thirty Years' War , the seat moved to Fischbach. Both fiefs remained in the possession of this family until 1801. With a letter of sale dated December 22, 1801, Friedrich Graf von Thürheim sold Fischbach and Stockenfels to Wilhelm Karl Graf von Eckart, who had already acquired Zangenfels and Hof am Regen Castle from him. Fischbach and Stockenfels also had neck jurisdiction until 1806 ; this was then confiscated and both became a patrimonial court . Wilhelm Karl Johann Graf von Eckart applied for a first class patrimonial court in Leonberg on December 10, 1819 , which he also approved. This referred to Fischbach, Stockenfels, Hof am Regen, Zangenfels and Stefling. The Fischbach Patrimonial Court existed until the aristocratic jurisdiction was generally dissolved in 1848.

Wilhelm Karl Johann Graf von Eckart died in 1828. He was succeeded by his daughter Katharin Eugenie, who married the French general Karl Graf DuMoulin. Their eldest son Karl Eduard Marcell appears in the Bavarian aristocratic registers as Count von der Mühle as early as 1822. Since 1857 he called himself Graf von der Mühle-Eckart or Graf Du Moulin-Eckart .

Today the complex is still owned by the Countesses von der Mühle-Eckart.

Fischbach Castle today

The Count's Forestry Office is now housed in the former castle. It is a two-storey hipped roof building from 1726/27, essentially older. The wide, middle Fletz runs in an east-west direction and has a stucco ceiling. On the upper floor there is a hall with the alliance coat of arms of the client Georg Sigismund Christoph Graf von Thürheim and his wife Maria Katharina Freiin von Closen auf Haidenburg . Several spacious rooms have stucco ceilings with frame stucco, acanthus , palm fronds and shell shapes.

In 1860 the four corner towers and the top floor were removed. The east side is connected to the Church of St. Jacob. The one or two-storey utility building dates from the 17th – 19th centuries. Century, the east attached barn is a new building. A two-aisled vaulted former horse stable is located in the southwest. At the west corner of the castle there is an extension with a pent roof and a gate passage with a cross vault . Parts of the former castle wall have also been preserved.

literature

  • Ingrid Schmitz-Pesch: Roding. The care offices Wetterfeld and Bruck (p. 321–330). (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern issue 44). Commission for Bavarian History, Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7696-9907-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lords / Counts of Thürheim

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Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 7 "  N , 12 ° 12 ′ 14.6"  E