Kümmersbruck Castle

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Kümmersbruck Castle (2020)

The Castle Kümmersbruck is a castle in the Upper Palatinate municipality Kümmersbruck in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach of Bavaria . In 1845 it was converted into an inn that still exists today.

history

Kümmersbruck had been the headquarters of the local aristocratic family of the Kümmersbrucks since 1100. At that time an Arnold von Chumbrechtsbruke was named, in 1189 a Konrad von Chumbrechtsbruke was named. He had two brothers, Erchenbert and Kunrad Heinrich Gerwick von Chümmersbrucke , named 1214. A Konrad von Kümmersbruck was a hunter in Upper Bavaria in 1323 and was knighted on the Tiber Bridge on the occasion of the coronation of Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian in Rome . A Heinrich der Kümmersbrucker was one of the three sons-in-law of Hermann von Ammerthal, who died in 1373 without a male heir . He had to compare himself to his brother-in-law Erhard Eschenbeck because of the legacy of Oberammergau. The last of the family was Heinrich Kümmersbrucker, who presumably died in 1393. He bequeathed his inheritance to his wife Anna on the condition that she “didn't go crazy with her Wittibstuhl”. Shortly afterwards she moved her widow's chair and married Heinrich den Kemnather. The children of Heinrich's sister, Elsbeth the Tedenreuterin, bought the property for 130 pounds .

Since 1423 the Eschenbeck originating from Ammerthal have been recorded in Kümmersbruck. In 1442 Konrad der Eschenbeck sold his seat to the Ensdorf monastery ; Since this had not kept the purchase contract, the purchase had to be reversed in 1449. 1463 the Amberg citizen Konrad Heiden is proven as the owner. After him, the Ensdorf monastery acquired the seat again, but sold it in 1499 to Hans Uttelhofer zu Deining , nurse of Hohenfels , and his wife Barbara, a born Kemnatherin. From these, Kümmersbruck came to a Velhorn from Amberg, then to Jörg Kastner in 1518 , and in the same year the estate passed to the Nortweiner family. Ruger Nortweiner had sold his inherited seat Theuern to the Portner and acquired Kümmersbruck for it. In 1526 the estate was converted into an electoral fief . In 1564 Endres Kodnit († 1578) and his brothers Johann (Protestant pastor in Nabburg ) and Wolf Kodnit were enfeoffed with it, since 1579 Wolf Kodnit was the sole owner. It is said of the Protestant pastor Johann that he “made the picture of a distinguished church servant who nourished his pounds abundantly - he did well in the exam, gave a maximum of four sermons, was cohabiting for a long time, but then got married. He's a drunkard, gambler and blasphemer. ”In 1589 the guardians of Wolf Kodnit's son, Hans Wolf, sold Kümmersbruck to Joachim Portner.

Kümmersbruck Castle (1905)

In 1598 Kümmersbruck was inherited from the Palatinate. In 1606 Leonhard Muntzer (Münzer), son-in-law of Hans Joachim Portner, was the fiefdom holder († July 2, 1619). He had the castle, which was in poor condition, rebuilt. He was followed by two sons, first his son Hans Joachim Münzer and, from 1622, his son from his first marriage, Georg Christian Münzer (Mantzer), forester at Waldsassen . He sold the seat in 1629 to Hans Thoma von Fronhaim and Malching. He died of the plague in 1634 and the estate fell to his daughter, who was married to Kaspar Melchior Fuchs, until 1649. In 1649 the government of Amberg took over the over-indebted property and gave it to Colonel Augustin von Fritsch († 1662) in 1650. He and subsequently his son Johann Michael von Fritsch, government councilor in Amberg, were granted the lower jurisdiction in Kümmersbruck. Johann Michael von Fritsch died unmarried on November 27, 1697. In 1699 the government advocate Dr. Johann Reinhard Grienagl enfeoffed. This family kept the estate until 1810. In that year Xaver Grienagel died and the estate was passed on to his elderly sister Margarethe, married to the forester Anton Gottlieb von Spitzel. Margarethe's sons sold the property to the Jewish trader Jakob Leistner from Regensburg. By March 1820 the country estate was destroyed. The remainder was bought by Wolfgang Mauser von Heldmannsberg on September 14, 1820 . Part of the high roof structure was removed and sold to Sulzbach. He was followed on February 22nd, 1842 by his son Georg. In 1845 the castle was converted into an inn and since that year the right to dispense beer has been exercised here.

Construction

Today's building complex is a two-storey, plastered solid building with a gable roof . On one side it has an elevator dormer and a profiled stone portal. On the first floor there is the year "1607" carved in stone, which refers to the time the palace was built under Leonhard Münzer.

literature

  • Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district . Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1991, pp. 137–140.
  • Karl Wächter, Günter Moser: In the footsteps of knights and nobles in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach. Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1992, p. 853.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Kümmersbruck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schloßwirtschaft in Kümmersbruck , accessed on June 26, 2020.

Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 22.8 ″  N , 11 ° 53 ′ 12 ″  E