Kulmain Castle

The listed Kulmain Castle am Weiher (also known as Pozelin Castle ) is located in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Kulmain in the Tirschenreuth district (Wunsiedeler Straße 5). At Kulmain there were two noble residences, the Kulmain Castle at the pond and the Kulmain Castle Landsasserei at the church .

history

Kulmain is first mentioned in a document from Reichenbach Monastery around 1200, which states that the tithe of the Ebneth church belongs to the parish church in Kulmain. The parish church of the Assumption of Mary in Kulmain was also built at this time. A local nobility appears in a Leuchtenberg document from 1228 with the name of the ministerial "Albero de Chylmen". This also suggests the existence of a castle in this place. 1259 and 1279 a "Cvnradus de Cvlmen" was named as a documentary witness of the Leuchtenbergers. Supposedly was then in a Kulmein Burghut the castle Waldeck had to face the holders in the event of war, armed to Waldeck. In 1283 the place and the castle were sold to the Wittelsbachers and in 1285 Kulmain appeared in the ducal land register ("Chulmen. Una curia, due aree, una curia"). The owners of the castle cannot be determined with certainty; The "Schaumpüchler" were mentioned in the 13th and 14th centuries, before 1447 "Albert Zirkendorffer", from 1447 "Hans Potzlinger" and his son Philipp in the same year. The Zirkendorffer and the Potzlinger must have been related to each other because of the coats of arms.

Pozelin lock after the Urbarium culmainense from 1761

1507 Ansitz went to Wilhelm Lemminger, this was in the Landsassenmatrikeln the Kurpfalz called. After 1518 “Hanns Ernst Lemminger zu Culmen” appeared there and from 1599 “Hanß Thomas Lemminger”. In 1615 his son "Hans Ernst Lemminger" was mentioned, who had to leave the country during the Reformation . After 1630 "Hans Ernst Lemminger" was called again and in 1652 his son was called "Hans Heinrich Lemminger", district judge of Auerbach. He applied to the Amberg government for wood for his castle that burned down during the Thirty Years' War . In 1696 the castle came to Johann Heinrich Lemminger. In 1711 it was sold to Heinrich Eckart von Lilgenau von Berndorf († May 12, 1785), whose mother was an imperial free woman from Lemmingen. In 1759 the property came to Georg von Ponzelin, who was married to the daughter of the previous owner. From 1821 the property was in civil hands. The last owner was Josef Anton Wiesend.

Kulmain coat of arms

The coat of arms of Kulmain is derived from the noble families of the Pfreimder (three silver tips in the blue head of the shield) and the Lemminger (black bar), and it also contains the round church building of the pilgrimage church of the Holy Trinity on the Armesberg .

Kulmain Castle am Weiher today

The castle is located on the northern outskirts of Kulmain in the so-called Winkel am Weiher, the former castle pond. It is a 15 × 15 m pond house that once stood on a 30 × 35 m island. The Weiherdamm, which existed until 1840, has now disappeared. On a representation from 1791 a three-story building can be seen there, which is enclosed with a fence and a narrow moat. Access was via a narrow wooden walkway. The house had a half -hip roof and a half-timbered upper floor.

Today there is a two-storey, plastered solid building with a gable roof , the core of which dates from the 17th century. Two diamond-shaped windows on the south side have been preserved.

literature

Ulrich Kinder: The fortifications in the Tirschenreuth district . (= Work on the archeology of southern Germany. Volume 28), (pp. 150–152). Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-933474-82-7 .

Individual evidence

^ Official description of the coat of arms of Kulmain

Web links

49.89727 11.89726Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '50.2 " N , 11 ° 53' 50.1" E

[1] Official description of the coat of arms of Kulmain