Hofeck Castle
Schloss Hofeck is a castle in Hofeck , a district of Hof .
Succession of ownership
As far as we know today, the emergence of the first fortified complex in Hofeck goes back to the Vogt von Weida , who in 1238 established a fortified base around Hof to protect his possessions and appointed a knight Murring . The presence of the Murring family and the associated name Murringhof lasted until the beginning of the 15th century. With the Schartenmauer , Hofeck had an outwork . In the following centuries the owners changed frequently, with well-known local noble families selling the estate several times. The families in chronological order included those of Aufseß , Waldenfels , von der Grün , Kotzau , Redwitz and Geilsdorf . After the fiefdom fell back in 1618 to Margrave Christian of Bayreuth , Governor Heinrich Reuss II became the new owner in 1620. Other local aristocratic families followed with the Dobenck and Lüchau . In the 18th century, when frequent changes of ownership and the presence of originally more distant noble families were not unusual anyway, the von Beulwitz , Marschall, Reubold, Plotho and Sichart families appeared . Finally in 1874 the property passed to the Reichenbacher family of Grabner manufacturers . In 1972, through other owners, the castle came to the entrepreneur and native of Hofer Hans Vießmann , who restored it comprehensively and used it as a training center. Eventually the castle was converted into a guest house. It can be rented for meetings.
location
As a fortified castle, the seat was built on a rock spur. The building has undergone numerous changes and extensions over the centuries. A division of the system between two owners lasted for a long time. The palace complex with its representative entrance is embedded in a park-like forest.
Say
There are several legends about the castle. Two of them are about the appearance of the white woman . In one case, it migrates to the witching hour on the site back to its crypt , plays the male staff pranks and scare small children. In the other case, she is in league with the devil and there are reports of caves in the Schlossberg that offer retreats. Other legends tell of inheritance divisions that can have a historical background. For example, tormentors attacked a sister who only gave up on her when her father died and she bequeathed her inheritance to her older sister. In another legend, two brothers quarreled over the castle's inheritance and one drove the other away. Disguised as a hunter and bribed, the expellee returned and killed his brother in the dining room with a crossbow. The servant who let the fratricide in is said to wander around as a ghost and find no rest.
literature
- Karl Bedal : Hofeck Castle in a new look - At the end of the two-year renovation work . In: Special print from the Kulturwarte - Nordostoberfränkische monthly for art and culture . Hof 1974.
- August Gebeßler : City and District of Hof . The Art Monuments of Bavaria , Brief Inventories , Volume VII . German art publisher . Munich 1960. p. 29.
- Hans Hofner : The Murringhof and Hofeck Palace - On the history of a Vogtland knight's seat on the outskirts of Hof . In: Special print from the Kulturwarte - Nordostoberfränkische monthly for art and culture . Hof 1974.
- Hans Hofner: Murringhof and Gut Hofeck - history of a Vogtland knight's seat and its afterlehen on the outskirts of Hof . Courtyard 1972.
- Georg Schwarz: Schloss Hofeck - steeped in history and shrouded in legend .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The white woman in the palace at Hofeck . In: Andreas Reichold: North Upper Franconian Legends . Lichtenfels 1926. p. 13f.
- ↑ White woman and the devil in the Hofeck castle . In: Andreas Reichold: North Upper Franconian Legends . Lichtenfels 1926. pp. 19f.
- ↑ Tormentors in the Hofeck Castle and The Enemy Brothers . In: Andreas Reichold: Legends from Hof adS and northern Upper Franconia . Court. P. 12.
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 46.8 " N , 11 ° 53 ′ 41.2" E