Fuchsmühl Castle

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Fuchsmühl Castle
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Creation time : from 1300
Conservation status: inhabited
Standing position : changing owners
Construction: polished quarry stone
Place: Fuchsmühl
Geographical location 49 ° 54 '56 "  N , 12 ° 9' 8"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '56 "  N , 12 ° 9' 8"  E
Height: 624  m
Fuchsmühl Castle (Bavaria)
Fuchsmühl Castle

The Fuchsmühl Schloss is in the market Fuchsmühl in Tirschenreuth on the eastern edge of the stone forest in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria .

description

In the 14th century, the palace area comprised simple buildings that formed a closed ring; access was through a gate tower with a pyramid roof. In 1752 the palace was expanded to include the palace chapel of the Sacrifice of the Virgin Mary next to the gate tower in the south, which was restored in 1820. The castle chapel is a rectangular room with five bays without a separate choir, barrel vaults with stitch caps and wall pilasters . The ceiling painting and the altar probably date from 1752 ( Rococo ). On the southern side of the chapel are the graves of Daniel von Froschheim (died 1645) and his wife Eva Susanne nee Nothaft von Weißenstein (died 1660) with the marriage coat of arms. Over the centuries there have been various architectural changes to the castle property. The last extension was made around 1980.

Today the palace area consists of the actual classical palace building, the manor house and the palace chapel. To the west there is a farm yard with farm buildings and a brewery. A landscape park with ponds and a gardener's house extends to the east and south.

history

The history of the castle goes back to the 12th century. In documents from the 14th century, the Fuchsmühl Castle is mentioned as a knight and feudal estate "Fossenmühl". The name is derived from the former owners, the Lords of Fossenhofen .

In 1363, Hans Heckel, a Leuchtenberg servant, was mentioned in a document as the owner of the property. He sold it to Landgrave Johann I von Leuchtenberg in 1394 . Later it passed to the knight Konz von Wirsberg as a fiefdom .

The Trautenberger era

The Messrs. Von Trautenberg followed the Wirsberger . The Swedish-friendly Trautenbergers abandoned their Fuchsmühl manor during the Thirty Years' War and fled. In 1587, the Lords of Trautenberg combined the Fuchsmühl estate with the Bohemian country table estate Nacketsdörfel .

During the Thirty Years' War , Schlossgut Fuchsmühl was owned by Johann Philipp Cratz von Scharffenstein , commander of the Upper Palatinate in the Bavarian service, but who defected to the Swedes. After his capture in the Battle of Nördlingen in 1635, he was beheaded in Vienna . A colonel "Kaspar Snetter" was subsequently named as the new owner of the castle. Until 1657 the castle was again owned by the Trautenberg family.

The Froschheim era (1657 to 1820)

In 1657 Daniel von Froschheim took over the castle, followed in 1685 by his son Franz Heinrich Daniel. At the request of his father, in 1688 he built a pilgrimage church on the Hahnenberg near Fuchsmühl in honor of the Mother of God, which was the origin of today's pilgrimage church Maria Hilf .

In 1672, an electoral secondary toll station for the main Kemnath toll was set up in Fuchsmühl , as trade was to take place there from Leipzig and Vogtland to Regensburg and vice versa. Fuchsmühl thus gained access to an important long-distance trade route.

The family of Froschheim died out with the royal Bavarian treasurer , councilor and court judge to Amberg , Josef Daniel von Froschheim. He was raised to the baron status on May 1, 1786 and died childless on October 16, 1820 in Fuchsmühl.

From 1820 to 1945

A little later, King Max I of Bavaria awarded Fuchsmühl Castle as a knightly loan to his Minister of Justice, Minister of State Friedrich Freiherr von Zentner . In 1843 Lieutenant General Karl Freiherr von Zoller received the castle, then his son Maximilian Freiherr von Zoller. With him the line of the first loaned Karl Freiherr von Zoller became extinct. In 1889 the estate came to Ludwig von Zoller from a branch line. Under his aegis, the Fuchsmühler Holzschlacht took place on October 29 and 30, 1894 . In 1937, his son Alexander von Zoller sold Fuchsmühl Castle and its land for 600,000 Reichsmarks to the city of Augsburg , which still operates the Fuchsmühl forest district with around 900 hectares of forest today.

From 1945 until today

From 1946, the Sisters of the Holy Cross from Eger in the Sudetenland found a new home in Fuchsmühl Castle and set up an orphanage there. In 1949 the community of Fuchsmühl acquired the castle estate and had the farm buildings converted into apartments. From the 1950s the main building was used as a guest house. After it was given up due to economic problems, the Seltmann Weiden porcelain factory used it as accommodation for employees. In 1968 the castle was sold and operated again as a hotel. The owners bequeathed it to the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) Berlin in 1987 , which used it as an educational and recreational facility and hotel from 1987 to 2010. The castle has been privately owned again since December 2011 and has been a hotel again since 2015.

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  1. ↑ What you did not know about the Augsburg forests. August 12, 2019, accessed August 12, 2019 .