Haunritz Castle

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Haunritz Castle
Haunritz Castle

The Haunritz Castle (sometimes also called Hammerschloss Haunritz called) is a Grade II listed building in the district Haunritz the Upper Palatinate municipality Weigendorf in Amberg-Sulzbach of Bavaria (to lock 18). Like Högen Castle and Kirchenreinbach Castle, the castle is located in the Högenbach valley .

history

The Hammer zu Haunritz was the seat of the nobles von Haunrad at the beginning of the 14th century. A Konrad Haunrader is named as Ministerial of the Reicheneck taverns in 1350 . In the current local coat of arms of Weigendorf, the coats of arms of the taverns of Reicheneck and the later owners of Knorr von Rosenroth are combined. The mill wheel in the lower field symbolizes the centuries-long tradition of paper production in Haunritz.

Weigendorf coat of arms

In 1387 Haunritz belonged to hammer master Sebold Tetzel of Nuremberg , who was a member and initiator of the Upper Palatinate hammer cleaning organization . In 1422 Albrecht Lichtensteiner called himself to Hawnrats . When the estate was divided on June 5, 1490, the value of Castle and Hammer Haunritz was posted at 1400 guilders. Jörg Pfinzing is noted as the owner in the land table from 1514 . In 1522 his son Berthold Pfinzing is hammer master zu Haunritz. Haunritz came to his father-in-law Hans Bernklo and the mining entrepreneur Ott Rauch in 1552, presumably because of over-indebtedness. From 1557 to 1567 Wolf Hofmann was certified as a Landsasse. In 1568 Sebastian Leuprecht (Leoprechting) paid homage to the state as the new owner of the country estate. Hans IV. Von Furtenbach zu Reichenschwand took over possession in 1574. In 1580, the property passed to Hans Sigmund von Preysing , who had settled in the Upper Palatinate because of his Evangelical Lutheran creed. On the marriage route, the estate then went to Alexander von Salleth in 1635. Then Christian Knorr von Rosenroth is named here, who had previously also acquired the neighboring Högen. The Volkskammer von Kirchensittenbach family and the Wurmrauscher are mentioned as other owners. 1746 was Hans Teurl, citizen of Sulzbach, hammer master of Haunritz. In 1760 the Lords of Loefen lived here. In 1769 Johann Michael Edler von Löffler sold the knight and country estate to Johan Kaspar von Schönberg, who also had a mirror glass factory and a tobacco can turning shop built here. His descendants gave up the property in 1812.

Haunritz is mentioned in the earliest list of the Sulzbach court brands from 1514 and was a closed court market with a lower jurisdiction . In 1809 a patrimonial court is mentioned here that belongs to Karoline von Schönberg. After 1812, Haunritz came into bourgeois hands. The castle then served as a beer brewery and inn for decades.

Haunritz Castle then and now

Haunritz was an iron hammer in the 14th century . A paper mill has been set up in Haunritz since 1699. In the 18th century the hammer was rebuilt into an ironworks. The present castle was built in 1719. There was a castle chapel until 1860. In 1986 the castle was renovated.

The former noble residence is a tower-like three-storey building with a hipped roof in the middle of a system originally built in the shape of a horseshoe (date 1719). A round half-tower with a half-timbered gable is attached to the eastern wing. This wing consists of two-storey, plastered solid structures with gable roofs and gate passages. The core of the building is medieval; parts of the east wing date from around 1610 based on dendrochronological studies.

literature

  • Franz Michael Ress: Buildings, monuments and foundations of German ironworkers . Written on behalf of the Association of German Ironworkers . Verlag Stahleisen, Düsseldorf 1960, DNB  453998070 , p. 130-131 .
  • Max Piendl: Duchy of Sulzbach, District Judge Sulzbach . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian History (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Altbayern Series I, Issue 10). Michael Lassleben Publishing House, Munich 1957, DNB  453774466 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Weigendorf (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, p. 3 (PDF).
  2. ^ Commission for Bavarian History, 1957, pp. 61f.
  3. ^ Commission for Bavarian History, 1957, pp. 32 and 58.

Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 20.2 "  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 53.9"  E