Großalbershof Castle

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The Großalbershof Castle is an abandoned moated castle in the Großalbershof district of the Upper Palatinate town of Sulzbach-Rosenberg in the Amberg-Sulzbach district of Bavaria .

history

The Großalbershof manor was a fief of the Bamberg monastery . Here in 1200 the Albershofer and 1350 the Hahnbacher are mentioned. The first owner is Conrad Stör zum Albershof, who was mentioned as Sigler until April 7, 1431. In 1474 the owners were the Kottenauer brothers; These were also issued a fiefdom in 1502 by the Bamberg bishop. In 1506 Georg Zengler zu Stierberg signed a contract with the diocese about the Albershof seat . In 1508 Veit Erlbeck is named after Albershof, who was related by marriage to the Kottenauers. A fiefdom letter is issued for Sebastian Erlbeck in 1545; he rebuilds the crumbling castle. In 1583 Magdalena von Lüchau , the sister of the late Sebastian Erlbeck, named herself after the Albershof. After the death of his mother in 1598, Hans Joachim von Lüchau gave up his compulsory Landsassen towards Bishop Neidhardt von Thüngen . From 1643 Karl Freiherr von Schiefer is certified as the owner; the castle was obviously not affected by the Thirty Years War . Baron von Schiefer sells it to the Pfalz-Sulzbachschen Chancellor Christian Knorr von Rosenroth , who died here in 1689. In 1668 the estate passed to Marquard Leopold von Schütz.

From this, Duke Theodor von Sulzbach acquired the property in 1712 and converted it into a pleasure palace; he also has a healing spring set here. The castle serves him as a hunting lodge and summer residence. After the death of his son, Count Palatine Johann Christian von Sulzbach , the Imperial Counts of Schall can be traced back to Albershof, but they returned it to the sovereign in 1779. Since 1779 the properties have been run under the name “Administration Großalbershof”, to which belong the properties Etzmannshof, Forsthof, Fromberg, Großalbershof, Kempfenhof, Lockenricht, Niederricht, Prangershof, Riglashof, Röckenricht, See, Siglas and Tuffenthal.

During the coalition wars , on August 17, 1796, the village and Steinling Castle and Großalbershof were captured and destroyed by French troops.

On June 30, 1818 Großalbershof is a municipality in the Sulzbach regional court and is also run as a regional court municipality in 1820/21. On November 19, 1934, the previously independent community of Großalbershof was incorporated into Sulzbach-Rosenberg.

Grossalbersdorf mineral spring

After the sovereign had a healing spring set up here, the first healing successes were made public in August 1771; in the following year there seems to have been a great demand for rooms, so that the castle became a health resort. The Hofmedicus Dr. Bernhard Joseph Schleis compared the healing water ("sulfur-containing steel water") with that of Spa . After 1806 nothing more can be heard from the healing spring. The construction of the railway in 1872/73 finally buried the spring. The district administrator Hans Wagner commissioned a review of the source in May 1980, whereby, depending on the geological conditions, a new source recording would be possible, but this was not realized.

Construction

The castle had three floors and was surrounded on three sides by a water-filled moat that was connected to the castle pond and secured the facility to the north. After its destruction, only the vaults of the castle remained. The Bavarian State Conservation Office under the monument number D-3-6436-0087 underground findings of dialed early modern castle Großalbershof and previously a medieval castle called.

literature

  • Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district . Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1991, pp. 71-73.
  • Max Piendl: Duchy of Sulzbach, District Judge Sulzbach . (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Altbayern Series I, Issue 10). Commission for Bavarian State History. Michael Lassleben Publishing House, Munich 1957.
  • Karl Wächter, Günter Moser: In the footsteps of knights and nobles in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach. Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1992, p. 77.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Piendl : Duchy of Sulzbach, District Judge Office Sulzbach . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Old Bavaria Series I, Issue 10). Munich 1957, p. 56 , above ( = 2 digitization [accessed July 7, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Großalbersdorf on the Bavarian Monument Atlas, accessed on July 7, 2020.

Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '50.7 "  N , 11 ° 43' 50.4"  E