Hillstett Castle

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Hillstett Castle around 1904

The lost Hillstett Castle was located in the district of the same name in the Upper Palatinate town of Rötz in the Cham district of Bavaria .

history

Hillstett ( Zihullisterni ) was a medieval royal estate and appears on April 28, 1017 in a deed of gift from Emperor Heinrich II to the diocese of Bamberg . A monastery brother Chunradus Hulstet is named in a deed of donation to the Schönthal monastery in 1261 . On the basis of various documents, close relationships can be assumed between this monastery and Hillstett. In 1271 a Heinricus de Hulsteten appears as a witness to a donation from Chunradus and Reimbotho de Swarzenburch to the monastery. Count Wernhardus von Leonberg ceded several properties to the monastery in 1281, which previously had a Chonradus de Gicenrvt (= Kitzenried, today a district of Neukirchen-Balbini ) and Heinricus Hvlstetarius as fiefs . Furthermore, a frater Chunradus de hvlsteten in 1303 and 1304 was among the witnesses of a transfer of goods to the monastery. On October 27, 1309, Bishop Konrad von Regensburg confirmed the right of patronage to the Schönthal monastery over the church in Rötz and the appointment of Ulrich the Hubstaeters as vicarius . A Chunrat of the Hulsteter zu Tann confirmed the purchase of two fiefs of the soft man of the Hulsteter by the monastery. In 1343 and 1355, Fridreich and Gerl die Hulsteter are recorded in connection with sales to the monastery.

In 1390 Hans der Gruber zu Hulsteten appeared as the guarantor of a land sale. In 1419 Ulrich Gruber owned Hillstett and Thann . In 1440 Ulrich's son Ludwig is verifiable as the owner of both estates and in 1474 Balthasar Gruber . From 1488 the Gruber was followed by a Hanns Schlammerdorfer in Hillstett. In 1518 and 1525, Achatz Nothracht was registered with both goods. He was married to Ludwig Gruber's daughter Barbara , he himself comes as Achatz I from the Bodensteiner line of the Notthracht family. This was preceded by an agreement on May 17, 1500 before the court in Amberg with Hans von Schlammersdorf , probably his brother-in-law; thereafter both goods are in the possession of the Nothaftts. After Achaz I's death in 1526, he was followed by his son Achaz the Younger , who was registered here with his brother Engelhard from 1530 to 1545 . In 1548 Engelhard Nothracht is registered alone, after his death (probably in 1550) heirs who were not named are noted in the register of the Landsassen . A Wolf Nothaffen appears in 1566 on Thann and from 1584 on Thann and Hillstett. Between 1600 and 1615, Oswald Kolb and Hanns Jakob Lindthardt managed the Hillstett estate as guardians for Alexander Nothracht . The aforementioned Alexander paid homage on June 29, 1615, but exchanged Hillstett for Gut Grub to Wolff Albrecht Notthracht . After his death († 1621), his son Hanns Heinrich Notthracht von Wernberg , who later became Reichshofrat, imperial envoy and first count of the Wernberg line, inherits Hillstett. In 1628 he sold Hillstett to Wolf Georg von Schönstein ; he died in the same year and so the inheritance came to Georg Wilhelm von Schönstein , who paid homage in 1652, but died in 1654.

Hillstett also suffered during the Thirty Years' War , as can be seen from the fact that the town's tax bill fell to a third. The next owner of Hillstein is Gottfried Wolf Auer , who married Georg Wilhelm's daughter. On May 12, 1664, this resigned from compulsory Landsassen. In 1673 Histett was sold to his brother-in-law Sigmund Prenner († 1675). He informed the electoral government in the same year that Hillstett was to serve as a widow's residence for his wife Maria Magdalena , née Leoprechting. The judge Balthasar Rößler , who was still employed by Prenner, performed the compulsory Landsassen tax for Maria Prenner in 1675. In 1679 the estate was sold to their brother-in-law, Gerhard Christoph Zollner . In 1688 Johann Lorenz von Leoprechting acquired Hillstett from his sister Elisabeth Sara Zollnerin , the widow of Gerhard Zollner. Johann Lorenz von Leoprechting was not matriculated here until 1693. After his death († February 17, 1696), his widow Maria Susanna managed the estate until 1717. In that year Hillstett came to Johann Lorenz Gottfried von Leoprechting , the stepson of Maria Susanna. Johann Lorenz Gottfried Freiherr von Leoprechting died on April 3, 1749. In the same year, his son Johann Joseph took possession of Hillstett, who, however, had to deal with his three step-siblings from Johann Lorenz's marriage to Sara Genofeva von Satzenhofen . After various attempts to solve the debts and inheritance obligations, Hillstett was sold to Christoph Ignatz Philibert Schrenck von Notzing on August 6, 1751 († 1774). After his death, the widow Maria Barbara Schrenck von Notzing claimed in the name of her underage son Georg Sebastian Hillstett, the daughter Aloysia , a nun in the Geisenfeld monastery, was compensated with money. Maria Barbara Schrenck von Notzing died on September 10, 1803; on the same day her son Sebastian Freiherr von Schrenck von Hillstett took possession.

On December 15, 1819, Sebastian Wenceslaus Ignatz Freiherr von Schrenk applied for the establishment of a second class patrimonial court for his Hillstett and Thann estates. This was approved for him in the same year. Baron von Schrenk acquired Gut Thann in 1813 from previous owner Michael Gillitzer . On November 25, 1848, jurisdiction was transferred to the state after the Schrenk family waived their jurisdiction rights. In the 19th century, the Schrenck von Notzing family sold the property into bourgeois hands. In 1905, the calendar for Catholic Christians reports: These last owned Hofmark, which with Thann a so-called. Patrimonial 2nd class formed the Schrenk family. The mother of the former Bavarian. Minister's Excellency Baron von Schrenk, d. 1803, is buried in Seebarn, her tombstone set in the church wall is still there. For about 30 years (about 1870) the large castle estate with its beautiful forests has been sold and smashed. The castle building itself is owned by a farmer. After a few years, the once pretty building will have completely crumbled, now that the rain can already penetrate unhindered .

Construction

In 1924 the dilapidated castle building collapsed and was subsequently used as a quarry. In 1939 the castle became a ruin. The last remains of Hillstett Castle were demolished in 1972. A view from 1904 shows a mighty three to four story high building with a crippled hipped roof . On the east side there was a probably square, slightly lower extension with a roof turret. On the north side of the eaves, a desk-roofed bay window, perhaps a toilet extension, was added to the main building.

literature

  • Wilhelm Nutzinger: Neunburg vorm Wald . (Pp. 1651–170) (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Old Bavaria, issue 52). Commission for Bavarian History, Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7696-9928-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Stark, 2006.

Coordinates: 49 ° 20 ′ 16.9 ″  N , 12 ° 29 ′ 10.1 ″  E