Kirchenreinbach Castle

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Kirchenreinbach Castle

The Kirchenreinbach Castle is a castle in the district Kirchenreinbach the municipality of Etzelwang in Upper Palatinate Amberg-Sulzbach of Bavaria .

history

In 1383 Friedrich von Kemnath is certified here as the owner of Kirchenreinbach; Hauseck Castle was also awarded to his family in 1354 . The castle is likely to be older. In a deed of donation to Engelthal Monastery from 1268, an Otto de Ravmpach (Kirchenreinbach) is mentioned. This justifies the assumption that there was already a seat of a local nobleman in Kirchenreinbach at that time.

Received in chronological order from the Palatine dukes Eberhard Bernsteiner (1448), Christoff Scharffenberger (1463) from the Scharfenberg family, who had their ancestral seat in Scharfenberg Castle and also owned Ursensollen Castle , Hans Brandner and Kaspar Zerer (1467) via Kirchenreinbach Fiefdoms . In 1484 Heinrich von Freudenberg gave Sebastian Kraghan half a tenth of Kirchenreinbach as a fief. Sebastian Kraghan is from 1514 to 1541 as of local land aces in the country board certified. Sigmund Eisen, ducal land clerk of Neuburg an der Donau , has been here since 1541 , and the Dukes of Pfalz-Neuburg , Ottheinrich and Philipp follow in 1546 . 1557 Jobst von Brand auf Neidstein is mentioned here . 1576 receives the Nuremberg citizens of Anton Mühlholz Pfalzgraf Philipp Ludwig the Kirchtag protection , a number of goods and half tithe of Kirchenreinbach as a fief. Epitaphs from this family can be found in the church of St. Ulrich von Kirchenreinbach . From the Mühlholz family, whose male members had taken on important functions in the Pfalz-Sulzbach administration, the Hofmark and the lower court passed to Jakob von Sonnenburg. In 1809 the patrimonial court of Kirchenreinbach in the district court of Sulzbach is still in the hands of Jakob von Sonnenburg. In 1848 jurisdiction was ceded to the state. In the list of the existing communities in the Sulzbach district court, Kirchenreinbach is also mentioned on June 30, 1818; In 1818 Rupprechtstein came to Kirchenreinbach.

Under the von Sonnenburg family, the Hofmark came to the Gant and had to be sold by Ritter Falkner von Sonnenburg to the Müller brewery in 1848. This divided the castle into an eastern and western part in 1877. The eastern part was privately owned until 2007. The western part was bought by the Protestant school community and served as a schoolhouse from 1877 to 1974. It is thanks to the last residents of the castle, the Pilgrims family and the teacher Otto Spacil and his wife Edeltraud that the castle has an extensive range of antique furniture and furnishings. The equipment is complemented by its collection of historical appliances and tools from household, agriculture and handicrafts.

When the US Army marched in, an SS unit had offered pointless resistance, the castle was shot at in 1945 and badly damaged. But it was rebuilt in its original form. In 2007 it became known that the owner of the west wing of the castle wanted to sell his property (the east wing was already owned by the Etzelwang municipality). The village community then suggested the purchase by the municipality and the municipality of Etzelwang also acquired the west wing including the existing garden in autumn 2007. The heavily overgrown garden was redesigned and created as a publicly accessible herb garden.

Construction

The castle is a three-storey plastered building with a half-hipped roof , which essentially extends to the 14th / 15th. Century. The outer shape of the castle dates from the 16th century. At that time the main building was extended by two extensions to the east and north, and this is where the unevenly distributed rows of windows in the castle come from; the windows are partially equipped with slug panes. A round arched portal with stairs leads into the building. The court room, which has been preserved and is furnished with antique furniture, now also serves as a polling station for the Kirchenreinbachers.

The remaining sections of the enclosure wall date from the Middle Ages . In the area of ​​the former castle and palace, archaeological findings from the Middle Ages and early modern times have also been secured.

literature

  • Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district . Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1991, pp. 131-132.
  • Karl Wächter, Günter Moser: In the footsteps of knights and nobles in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach. Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1992, p. 83.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Piendl : Duchy of Sulzbach, District Judge Office Sulzbach . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Old Bavaria Series I, Issue 10). Munich 1957, p. 64 , above ( [1] [accessed July 30, 2020]).
  2. ^ Max Piendl : Duchy of Sulzbach, District Judge Office Sulzbach . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Old Bavaria Series I, Issue 10). Munich 1957, p. 86 , above ( [2] [accessed July 30, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Herb garden at the castle in Kirchenreinbach , accessed on July 31, 2020.
  4. ↑ Kirchenreinbach monument atlas, file number D-3-6435-0049 , accessed on July 31, 2020.

Coordinates: 49 ° 32 ′ 38 "  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 31"  E