Guteneck Castle

Guteneck Castle (2017)

Arcades of the castle in the coat of arms of the Guteneck community

The listed Guteneck Castle is located in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Guteneck in the Schwandorf district of Bavaria (Schloßberg 10).

history

Guteneck and Weidenthal have formed a unit of property and legal history since the 13th century. However, from 1147 to the end of the 13th century, the noble family of Weidenthalers resided in Weidenthal . At the turn of the 14th century, the Muracher perform here . On June 10, 1315, King Ludwig the Bavarian awarded the Jordan von Murach various goods in Wohlfest and Kulz as well as the bailiwick in Weidenthal. Albrecht der Muracher is mentioned several times in documents between 1324 and 1343. Konrad von Murach zu Guteneck appeared in 1377 and 1378 as a co-sealer in a sale of goods from Trausnitz Castle . A Götz von Murach von Guteneck is mentioned in 1394 when the bailiwick rights to Illschwang were handed over . A Jordan Murach , who sat at Guteneck, left the meadows and farmsteads in Weidenthal to his brother Ulrich before 1390 . Ott the Muracher zu Schönau ordered in 1402 with his brothers Jordan and Ulrich that the money donated to the Schönthal monastery for the soul masses for their father should be obtained from the tavern in Weidenthal. A Götz von Murach is also mentioned in the twenties and thirties of the 15th century together with Albrecht von Murach , both on Guteneck, as holders of public offices. Gocz Murhär was a judge in Nabburg in 1387 and 1390 , Albrecht was a nurse in Nabburg in 1427 and 1429 and a nurse in Lengenfeld in 1451 . In 1477, Albrecht Murher zu Guteneck had a feudal deed from the Electorate of the Palatinate, according to which further possessions in Altfalter and Nabburg were given to him as a man's fief. From Konrad Muracher , 1488 also nurses and judges Lengenfelder Rock, ownership went to his death on minor sons Jörg , Albrecht and Hans on. Christoph Zenger von Schwarzenfeld prepared a lapel letter for them on November 16, 1502 as a fiefdom holder. Albrecht von Murach appears for the first time in 1518 as the Upper Palatinate Landsasse and owner of Hofmark Guteneck. After his death his son of the same name inherited Guteneck again with an inheritance. In 1538 and 1545 Jörg von Murach zu Stamsried made the reverse letters for the underage Albrecht , in 1561 Albrecht II wrote a personal document. The three hundred year history of the Murach family from Guteneck and Weidenthal ended under Albrecht's son, Wolff Albrecht von Murach .

In 1578 Wolff Albrecht von Murach first sold Guteneck's Gut Neusath estate to Paul Spieß , but was unable to pay off the existing debt. Therefore in 1593 he had to sell Guteneck and Weidenthal to his brother-in-law, Hans Adam Freiherrn von Kreith (Kreuth) . During the Thirty Years War Guteneck and Weidenthal were devastated by the Soldateska. The next owner of Guteneck Wolff Wilhelm von Kreuth was not a Catholic landlord and had to emigrate. In 1629 he went with his wife Anna Sophie , née Schertl von Buttenbach, first to Sulzbach and then to Höchstädt to see his mother, then to Albertshofen and finally back to Sulzbach. There were also disputes with the Nabburg keeper about the income from Guteneck and Weidenthal, and in the end he was at least granted the money for the crowd. His requests for a license to visit his estates were rigorously rejected between 1629 and 1648. He bequeathed all of his property to his son Johann Friedrich von Kreuth , who paid homage in 1652 as an Upper Palatinate landlord. But he and his wife were also of the Lutheran faith and so they were expelled from the country by Elector Ferdinand Maria in 1660 and went to Sulzbach. After his death and the premature demise of his eldest son Wilhelm Christian , Guteneck and Weidenthal fell to their four underage sons Hanns Friedrich , Johann Ludwig , Aloys Bonaventura and Johann Wilhelm as well as to the young brother of Johann Friedrich named Veit Ludwig , canon in Regensburg. In 1707 he was invited to Amberg to take his duties as a Landsassen, but was represented by Baron von Plettenberg . In 1694 the Kreuth family gained the dignity of imperial count and led the title to Guteneck, Weidenthal and Gleiritsch . After the death of Aloys Bonaventura Graf von Kreuth , caretaker and rent master zu Nabburg, Guteneck and Weidenthal came to Franz Anton von Kreuth . On August 29, 1777, he had his lawyer Bösenecker remove the compulsory Landsassen from Guteneck, Weidenthal, Gleiritsch and Willhof. A year later he received these properties as a continuous fief. After his death he left behind the widow Adelheid , born von Preysing , the sons Max and Sigmund and the daughters Theresia Freifrau von Gobel , Philippina, later Baroness von Junker and Walburga, later Baroness von Künsberg . They agreed to hand over the property to the younger son Sigmund for a large amount of money. On October 28, 1793 he was able to resign from his compulsory Landsassen. In 1813 the count, who had risen to become general commissioner of the Unter-Donau-Kreis, applied for the formation of a second class court in Guteneck, but only a limited jurisdiction was granted to him. His subsequent widow, Adelheid Countess von Kreuth, née von Prinzenau , and her children applied for the formation of a second class patrimonial court in 1819 , which she was allowed to do with a rescript of October 10, 1821.

The last Countess Franziska von Kreith , who remained childless, sold Guteneck Castle and the estate to her brother, Count Franz von Spreti , in 1894 . In 1923 he sold the property to a broker from Nuremberg, who sold the property in 1937 to the Hereditary Prince Johann Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . Count Albrecht Beissel von Gymnich bought the castle with an area of 30,000 square meters in 1961. The move took place in 1963. His son Burkhard Graf Beissel von Gymnich has been the owner since 2001.

Arcades in the courtyard of Guteneck Castle

Portal of Guteneck Castle

Guteneck Castle today

The castle was built in the 12th century, this can be seen from the Gothic walls. In addition, Guteneck was first mentioned in a document at this time . The castle burned down completely in a village fire in 1822. At first only the chapel and the castle building connected to it were rebuilt. Count Franz von Spreti then built a residential wing on medieval foundations in 1894, using the remains of the baroque wall.

The structure is a three to four-sided system. Parts of the palace were built later, including an arcaded courtyard in the 19th century. The castle chapel of St. Catherine dates from the 14th to 15th centuries, was destroyed by fire in 1822 and rebuilt in a different way at the beginning of the 19th century. It has a ridge turret with an onion dome . A so-called Swiss house with ground floor vaults and a former school building also belong to the building complex. The former brewery from 1571 was rebuilt in 1822 (half-hipped roof construction). In the coat of arms of the Guteneck community there are three arcades in the main shield, which are modeled on the arcades in Guteneck's courtyard.

The castle has been revitalized through a variety of measures. Parts of it are offered as holiday apartments, a so-called knight's dinner takes place regularly at the castle, a traditional Christmas market has been held for several years, the castle serves as a wedding destination, the so-called Highland Games or other celebrations take place here once a year. The castle is also used as a conference and seminar center.

literature

Elisabeth Müller-Luckner: Nabburg (pp. 174-182). (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern booklet 50). Commission for Bavarian State History, Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7696-9915-7 .

Individual evidence

Web links

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

49.444607 12.277551Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 40.6 ″ N , 12 ° 16 ′ 39.2 ″ E

[1] Apartment at Guteneck Castle

[2] Knight's meal at Guteneck Castle

[3] Christmas market at Guteneck Castle

[4] Wedding photographer Schloss Guteneck

[5] Highland Games at Guteneck Castle

[6] Premiere at Guteneck Castle: The Castle is celebrating!