Kaufungen Castle
| Kaufungen Castle | ||
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.jpg) Kaufungen Castle |
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| Creation time : | around 1530 | |
| Conservation status: | Receive | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Wolkenburg-Kaufungen | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 53 '26.1 " N , 12 ° 40' 53.2" E | |
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The Kaufungen Castle is a castle in the Kaufungen district in the Wolkenburg-Kaufungen district of the city of Limbach-Oberfrohna in Saxony . The former manor was owned by Kunz von Kauffungen , who went down in history as the initiator of the Altenburg prince robbery.
Geographical location
The Kaufungen Castle is located in the center of Kaufungen on "Uhlsdorfer Straße" directly behind the St. Gallus Church.
history
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There is evidence of a manor in Kaufungen since 1226 . It was the ancestral home of the von Kaufungen family , which was first documented in 1231 with Henricus de Khoufungen. In the 15th century, Kunz von Kauffungen was the owner of the Kaufungen manor. The troops of the Saxon Duke Wilhelm III. , with whom Kunz was feuding, burned down the manor in the summer of 1450. Due to his participation in the Saxon Brotherly War , Kunz von Kauffungen had to pledge the Kaufungen manor to Hans von Maltitz in 1454 . Because the Saxon elector refused to compensate him for a ransom, for the destruction of his property in Thuringia and the expropriation of his manor in Schweikershain , Kunz von Kauffungen began planning the Altenburg prince robbery in order to have leverage against the elector. After the failed execution of the prince robbery on the night of July 7th to 8th, 1455, Kunz von Kauffungen and his helpers were executed in Freiberg on July 14th, 1455 . His possessions were confiscated and the Kaufungen manor was razed to the ground.
The last remains of the old knight's castle were demolished between 1523 and 1535. In their place, the von Maltitz gentlemen built a new manor. This also promoted the settlement of the town of Kaufungen. After the von Maltitz gentlemen, the Kaufungen manor was owned by the von Pflugk family and from 1584 in the hands of the von Thumbshirn family . Under the von Thumbshirn family, the essential parts of today's two-winged mansion with a round Wendelstein set in the corner were built. The east wing, built in simple Renaissance forms , dates back to 1595. Only its current half-timbered gable was only added in 1784 together with the roof structure. In the north wing, built in 1610, there is a tracery frieze as a neo-Gothic element under the eaves from around 1800. The neighboring manor Bräunsdorf in the Schoenburg dominion of Penig came into the possession of Wolf Dittrich von Thumbshirn in 1647, which has since been used as the outbuilding of the Kaufungen manor has been.
Around 1683 the Kaufungen estate and the Bräunsdorf estate came into the possession of the nobles von der Planitz . The Lords of Einsiedel , who had owned the neighboring Wolkenburg Castle since 1635, had also owned the estate in Kaufungen with Bräunsdorf, now known as the castle, since 1766. Since that time there was a joint court administration of Wolkenburg with Kaufungen in the rule of Wolkenburg belonging to the Electoral Saxon Office Borna . This existed until the middle of the 19th century. While the count's family lived in Wolkenburg Castle, the Kaufung manor house was used as the outbuilding and apartment of the manor leaseholder. Bräunsdorf however, belonged to respect the basic rule for beautiful burg country rule Penig under wettinischer supremacy.
The von Einsiedel family owned the Bräunsdorf manor until 1897 and the Wolkenburg and Kaufungen manors until they were expropriated by the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone in 1945. The Kaufungen manor was then dissolved and the land belonging to the manor was divided among new farmers . All farm buildings and several auxiliary buildings on the hillside behind the east wing were demolished in 1947. Only the two mansion wings remained as residential buildings. Due to a lack of building maintenance measures, the buildings were so dilapidated in the mid-1970s that the tenants had to move out. A repair of the building was only possible after the reunification by the municipality of Kaufungen with subsidies. After the purchase of the vacant building, the Kaufungen manor house has been used by a restoration company since 2003. A plank room with a wooden beam ceiling and wood paneling was uncovered on the upper floor of the east wing. After the restoration of the exterior facade of the manor house in 2006/07, the east wing is in the version from the late 16th century and the north wing in the version from the 18th century with tracery frieze. In 2007 the Wendelstein, which lost its tower hood in a lightning strike in 1842, received a new degree based on historical models.
Personalities
- Kunz von Kauffungen (around 1410–1455), Saxon nobleman and initiator of the Altenburg prince robbery
literature
- Wolf-Dieter Röber , Steffen Winkler: Family seat of the von Kaufungen . In: Series of publications, Issue 6, Museum and Art Collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, City of Glauchau, 1986, GDR, pp. 22-25 (Schloss Kaufungen near Limbach-Oberfrohna: on building history, on the family history of those von Kaufungen and on the Saxon prince robbery)
- Joachim Seyffarth: The "castle ??" of the knight Kunz von Kaufungen. In: Der Heimatfreund für das Erzgebirge (1972) 9, vol. 17, p. 205
Web links
- The Kaufungen manor on www.sachsens-schlösser.de
- The Kaufungen manor on a private website by Heyko Dehn