Hundshaupten Castle

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Hundshaupten Castle, aerial photo (2016)
Hundshaupten Castle

The Castle Hundshaupten is a four-winged castle complex in Hundshaupten, a district of Egloffstein in the district of Forchheim .

history

The castle was first mentioned in 1369 in the possession of the Lords of Wiesenthau . Like almost all castles in Franconian Switzerland, it was built on a mountain spur of the Jura plateau protruding into the valley . After the destruction in the years of the city ​​war in 1388 by the Nuremberg people , in 1412 by burgrave Friedrich VI. from Nuremberg and in 1525 in the Peasants' War , the castle was rebuilt in 1561.

After the line of those from Wiesenthau to Hundshaupten had expired in 1613, the fiefdom fell back to the Michelsberg monastery in Bamberg . After the Thirty Years' War , the monastery sold the castle to Hieronymus Christoph Freiherr von Pölnitz , city commandant of Forchheim, who was based in Aschbach , now a district of Schlüsselfeld , in 1661 . In the following years there was renovation work, but this did not change the character of the castle.

Due to a donation from Gudila Freifrau von Pölnitz, part of the property was transferred to the Forchheim district in 1991 , including the Hundshaupten wildlife park .

Hieronymus Christoph Heinrich Freiherr von Pölnitz, great-nephew and adopted son of Götz Freiherr von Pölnitz and Gudila Freifrau von Pölnitz , continues the property.

Meaning of the place name

The meaning of the place name Hundshaupten cannot be clarified without a doubt, there are several possible interpretations that were contrasted and compared by Dorothea Fastnacht.

The names of the neighboring villages Hundshaupten and Hundsboden should be seen in context. Presumably the part of the name '-haupten' refers to the mountain spur (mountain head), on which a castle and later today's castle were built. In contrast, the part of the name '-boden' refers to a level arable land on the plateau with good soil quality, which was cleared in the high Middle Ages in the course of land development. The part of the name 'dog-' probably denotes the owner of the cleared area and the castle with the office of a Hunno (leader of a hundred ). With the establishment of feudal rule, this office became hereditary in the High Middle Ages and was exercised by local nobles. Originally, during the Great Migration Period and in the early Middle Ages, the elected leader of a community of free farmers was called the Hunno.

Family cemetery

Below Hundshaupten Castle is the cemetery in an old beech tree between Jurassic rocks. The first funeral was in 1944 of privy councilor Paul Fridolin Kehr. People who died earlier were transferred there. The following members of the Pölnitz family are buried in the cemetery:

  • Max Freiherr von Pölnitz , (born April 29, 1862, Bamberg; † May 7, 1936, Aschbach), Royal Bavarian Treasurer, District Administrator a. D., Fideicomissherr
  • Gisela Freifrau von Pölnitz, b. Countess von Gatterburg , (born September 9, 1869, Pasing; † August 7, 1914, Munich)
  • Ilona Freifrau von Pölnitz, b. Countess Mikes von Zabola (born June 28, 1871, Zabola / Hungary, ancestral seat of the Mikes family; † December 21, 1951, Munich)
  • Hieronymus Christoph Franz Sigmund Maria Freiherr von Pölnitz (born September 28, 1901, Munich; † April 23, 1978, Bamberg), cathedral capitular, papal house prelate, church historian, director of the archives of the Archdiocese of Bamberg and the diocesan museum of Bamberg
  • Hieronymus Christoph Jan Eugen Franz Gottfried (Götz) Freiherr von Pölnitz (born December 11, 1906, Munich; † November 9, 1967, Erlangen), professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Regensburg, administrator and archive director of the Princely and Countess Fugger 's Foundations, landowners, founding rector of the University of Regensburg
  • Gudila Freifrau von Pölnitz , b. Kehr (born November 17, 1913, Rome; † January 11, 2002, Ebermannstadt), member of the Bavarian State Parliament from 1970 to 1982
  • Paul Fridolin Kehr (born December 28, 1860 - November 9, 1944), privy councilor, president of the Central Directorate of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, professor in Marburg and Göttingen, director of the Prussian Historical Institute in Rome , general director of the Prussian State Archives.
  • Doris Kehr, b. vom Baur (born January 6, 1885 - † February 27, 1979)
  • Ivo Kehr, memorial plaque (* April 28, 1911, Brussels; † April 17, 1943, Nowovssisk)
  • Romolus Kehr (born August 18, 1909, Brussels; † January 28, 1924, Berlin)
  • Franziska von Ballarini b. Countess von Gatterburg (* August 17, 1863 - January 17, 1955), sister of Gisela Frfr. v. Polnitz
  • Franz Graf von Gatterburg, (born November 6, 1833, Retz ; † February 9, 1898, Pasing), father of Gisela Frfr. v. Polnitz
  • Pauline Countess von Gatterburg, b. Freiin von Beck-Peccoz (December 2, 1841, Augsburg; † September 18, 1931, Pasing)
  • Adam Friedrich Joseph Heinrich von Künsberg ; (* August 2, 1821 - † August 26, 1896) - previously buried in Bamberg
  • Anna von Künsberg, b. Freiin von Pölnitz (born September 27, 1825 - † January 7, 1887), sister of Franz Frhr. v. Polnitz
  • Elvira von Künsberg, b. Kleiner (April 7, 1855 - November 12, 1936)
  • Marietta Amanda Eugenie Amalie Anna von Sartor auf Gansheim (born April 30, 1892, Munich; † June 7, 1970, Munich). The sex is extinct in the male line. Marietta was the daughter of Eugen von Sartor and Amalie, b. Baroness of Pölnitz. Sister of Max Freiherr von Pölnitz
  • Christian von Schmaltz , (born November 22, 1845, Germersheim; † February 28, 1927, Munich), son of the general and Greek Minister of War Heinrich Christian von Schmaltz
  • Anna von Schmaltz born Freiin von Pölnitz , (born April 1, 1867, Aschbach; † March 9, 1935, Munich), sister of Max Frhr. v. Polnitz
  • Joseph Anton Freiherr von Pölnitz (* February 4, 1792, Würzburg, † February 22, 1865) Royal Bavarian treasurer, land commissioner, brother of Heinirich Frhr. v. Polnitz
  • Charlotte Freifrau von Pölnitz, b. von Fliesen (7 October 1805 - 28 July 1860)
  • Walburga Freifrau von Pölnitz von und zu Egloffstein, geb. Countess von Preysing Lichtenegg-Moos, (born April 28, 1937, Biedenbach Ndb .; † March 25, 2010, Vilsbiburg)

Memorial plaques for:

  • Franz Karl Ludwig Freiherr von Poelnitz, Royal Bavarian Rittmeister à la suite and manor owner (born January 20, 1827, † April 19, 1896, father of Gerhard von Poelnitz)
  • Adolphine Emilie Adele Freifrau von Poelnitz b. Freiin von Schaezler (born July 4, 1834 - † October 8, 1878, mother of Gerhard von Poelnitz)
  • Else Freifrau von Poelnitz born. von Thiereck (born November 13, 1870 - † November 10, 1917)
  • Ludwig Freiherr von Poelnitz, Royal Bavarian Colonel a. D., Artillery Commander No. 23 1914/1918 (* 25 August 1863 - † 9 May 1928, younger brother of Max von Poelnitz, his sister was Anna von Schmaltz)
  • Ludwig Freiherr von Poelnitz, (* December 15, 1899 - † November 21, 1908)
  • Walter Freiherr von Poelnitz, Royal Prussian lieutenant in the Leib-Dragon. Rgt. 20, (born July 13, 1892 in Augsburg; died October 6, 1914 in Frolinghien, northern France)
  • Elisabeth von Thiereck born Schmid, born March 24, 1850; † February 19, 1909
  • Albin von Thiereck (born April 10, 1841 - † February 27, 1929)
  • Paul von Thiereck (* and † February 26, 1872)

literature

  • Walter Heinz: Former noble residences in the Trubach valley . Verlag Palm and Enke, Erlangen and Jena 1996, ISBN 3-7896-0554-9 , pp. 195-206.
  • Hellmut Kunstmann: The castles of south-western Franconian Switzerland . Commission publisher Degener & Co, Neustadt an der Aisch 1990, pp. 248-260.
  • Gustav Voit, Walter Rüfer: A castle trip through Franconian Switzerland - In the footsteps of the draftsman AF Thomas Ostertag , 2nd edition, Verlag Palm & Enke, Erlangen 1991, ISBN 3-7896-0064-4 , pp. 90–92.
  • Toni Eckert, Susanne Fischer, Renate Freitag, Rainer Hofmann, Walter Thousand Pounds: The Castles of Franconian Switzerland - A cultural guide . Gürtler Druck, Forchheim, ISBN 3-9803276-5-5 , pp. 74-78.
  • The matriculated nobility in Bavaria , vol. 19, p. 397 (for all persons named here)
  • Handbook of the Bavarian state parliament members (for Gudila von Pölnitz)
  • Historical report No. 114 , page VII-X (obituary Sigmund von Pölnitz)
  • Götz Reichsfreiherr von Pölnitz, academic funeral service on November 9, 1967 . Kallmünz 1970
  • Schematic of the diocese of Bamberg (for Sigmund von Pölnitz)
  • Peter Jakob Kock: The Bavarian State Parliament, a chronicle (for Gudila von Pölnitz)
  • Dorothea Fastnacht, Der Ortsname Hundshaupten, pp. 87-106 (PDF; 1.1 MB) in: onenological information, ed. by Ernst Eichler, Karlheinz Hengst, Dietlind Kremer, Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2011, 98, ISSN  0943-0849 .

Archival documents

  • Bamberg City Archives, D2033 No. 200.125

Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 13.8 ″  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 32.5 ″  E