Högen Castle

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The Castle Högen is a castle in the village of Högen the community Weigendorf in Upper Palatinate Amberg-Sulzbach of Bavaria .

history

Högen ( Hegina ) is first mentioned on November 28, 1043, when Emperor Heinrich III. gives his minister Pardo the places Wurmrausch ( villis Wermerischa ), Högen and Fürnried ( Furchenriet ), which came from the possessions of the imperial uncle, Bishop Gebhard von Regensburg , and his mother Adelheid or from the ancestors of the Counts of Sulzbach . In Pardo a ministerial or administrative officer in the Nuremberg area is suspected. 1402 a local noble family from Högen is proven; a country estate is mentioned here for the first time in the country table from 1557, at that time owned by Georg Brandt . Hans von Furtenbach zu Reichenschwand became his successor in 1574 . After 1580 the Preysing are certified here. In 1650 Alexander von Salleth succeeds him. The Sulzbach Chancellor Johann Christian Knorr von Rosenroth , then Marquart Leopold Schütz von Pfeilstatt and von Schönberg are named as other owners . In 1789 Heinrich Albrecht von Roeder sold the privately owned manor to Christoph Friedrich Mayer; Högen is described as a closed Hofmark with jurisdiction. Another owner of the castle was Hans Rösl. Until 1882 the castle was used as a schoolhouse, then as a post office and as part of an agricultural facility. Today the renovated property houses an architecture office and living rooms.

Even after a list of the localities in the Sulzbach district judge from approx. 1790, Högen is listed with a lower court , the castle and 26 properties. Lisette von Mayer is named in 1809 as the owner of the Patrimonial Court in Högen. Högen has been part of the Weigendorf community since 1818.

Construction

View of Högen; the small castle building is visible to the left of the center of the picture (group of trees) through the dwarf house

The castle is a two-storey, plastered solid building with a hipped roof with a dwarf house . The building, which is essentially medieval , was given its current form through a renovation in 1733. From the renovation in 1733, stucco ceilings , clay wrap ceilings and significant parts of the furnishings such as baroque door leaves, wooden banisters and original cross-frame windows have been preserved. A large castle garden with a castle pond has belonged to the castle since 1740. Between 2004 and 2007 the property was renovated in an exemplary manner; For this, the building owners were honored with the Bavarian Monument Protection Medal in 2012 .

literature

  • Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district . Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1991, pp. 109–110.
  • Sixtus Lampl : Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments: Volume III. Upper Palatinate. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (Ed.), Munich 1985.
  • Karl Wächter, Günter Moser: In the footsteps of knights and nobles in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach. Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1992, p. 80.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Albrecht von Roeder , accessed on July 27, 2020.
  2. ^ 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. 62 f ., above ( digital-sammlungen.de [accessed on July 27, 2020]).
  3. ^ 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. 62 f ., above ( digital-sammlungen.de [accessed on July 27, 2020]).
  4. ^ Schloss Högen , accessed on July 27, 2020.
  5. ↑ An architect whips up the dream castle bit by bit - Högen Castle is kissed awake , Onetz from November 5, 2003, accessed on July 27, 2020.

Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 31.3 "  N , 11 ° 36 ′ 15.5"  E