Hohenburg Castle (Hohenburg)

Hohenburg Nursing Castle

The Hohenburg Castle , also known as the care castle or care yard Hohenburg , is a castle in the Upper Palatinate market of Hohenburg in the Amberg-Sulzbach district of Bavaria .

history

The care castle was built in 1575 because Hohenburg Castle was no longer comfortable enough for the taste of the time and was not easily accessible on the Schloßberg ; therefore a new official building was built for the episcopal caretaker in the village. The so-called prince's rooms in the palace were used to accommodate the Regensburg bishop. Later it was used as a benefactor's house. After secularization , the care yard became a poor house.

Hohenburg Nursing Castle

Construction

The resulting before 1600 Renaissance has three storeys, with a saddle roof covered and fitted with a six-sided bay window on the south side. The castle was enlarged in 1686 by building an extension wing. A fenced and partially terraced former garden belongs to the hillside.

At the moment the nursing home is owned by the Hohenburg community. There is currently (2020) no perspective for the vacant castle in urgent need of renovation.

literature

Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district . Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1991, p. 113.
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. 65.

Web links

Commons : Pflegehof (Hohenburg) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry on castle, care castle, care yard Hohenburg in the private database "All castles".

Individual evidence

↑ Michaela Fichtner: Examples from Amberg-Sulzbach at the Monument Day show what can happen when renovations are tackled together. Mittelbayerische Zeitung of August 30, 2016, accessed on July 12, 2020.
^ Paul Böhm: Open Monument Day in Hohenburg - Insight into the Onetz farm on September 10, 2017, accessed on July 12, 2020.

49.294072 11.799746Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 38.7 " N , 11 ° 47 ′ 59.1" E

[1] Michaela Fichtner: Examples from Amberg-Sulzbach at the Monument Day show what can happen when renovations are tackled together. Mittelbayerische Zeitung of August 30, 2016, accessed on July 12, 2020.

[2] Paul Böhm: Open Monument Day in Hohenburg - Insight into the Onetz farm on September 10, 2017, accessed on July 12, 2020.