Grötschenreuth Castle

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The listed Grötschenreuth Castle is located in the Grötschenreuth district of the Upper Palatinate town of Erbendorf in the Tirschenreuth district (Grötschenreuth F 15- Grötschenreuth F 19).

history

The formerly independent community of Grötschenreuth was first mentioned as Cretsinruit in the confirmation document of Pope Paschal II of April 14, 1109 . In the following centuries the village was, among other things, a Leuchtenberg and then an Electoral Palatinate fief .

In 1609 Egid Steinhauser had acquired Frauenberg Castle in the neighboring Obergrötschenreuth, but it was already in disrepair. At that time, a dispute broke out about sovereign affiliation, which was resolved in such a way that Frauenberg and Grötschenreuth are seen as Palatinate fiefdoms. In 1611 Egid Steinhauser had the new Grötschenreuth Castle built on a hill above the Fichtelnaab as his new residence. The von Weickmann family lived here from 1651 to the 19th century . 1803 Josef von Weickmann is named as the landlord . In 1819 Grötschenreuth became the seat of a second class patrimonial court . After the dissolution of the feudal lords, this was added to the district court of the older order Erbendorf in 1849 and the community of Grötschenreuth developed, which existed until the territorial reform in 1972 and then became part of the city of Erbendorf.

Grötschenreuth Castle today

The castle is an oblong , two-storey, plastered solid construction with a hipped roof . Above the door there is a coat of arms with the inscription: Egidius Steinhauser von Kretschenreuth vnd Fraunberg. Mechtild Steinhauserin a born von Freidenberg his married housewife, 1611 .

The portal tower is covered with a bent pointed hood from 1870. Two domed corner towers face south. They were built in the Baroque style by Hermann Selzer around 1924-27. The rear courtyard also dates from around 1924. In the area of ​​the castle, archaeological findings and finds from the early modern period were made.

The castle in need of renovation is now privately owned and cannot be visited.

literature

  • Ulrich Kinder: The fortification in the Tirschenreuth district , pp. 128–129, (= work on the archeology of southern Germany. Volume 28), pp. 96–101, Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-933474-82-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments from Erbendorf .

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Coordinates: 49 ° 51 ′ 31.1 ″  N , 12 ° 1 ′ 32.1 ″  E