Langenbruck Castle

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Location of the abandoned Langenbruck Castle, house number 1

The Castle Langenbruck is a abgegangenes castle in Langenbruck , now a district of the Upper Palatinate town of Vilseck in Amberg-Sulzbach of Bavaria . Langenbruck is about 5 km north of Vilseck, it was one of the places that were relocated in favor of the Grafenwöhr military training area . Today the Rose Barracks , the location of the Second Cavalry Regiment of the United States of America, are located in the area of ​​the former village .

history

The property originally goes back to an iron hammer , which was first mentioned in documents in 1402 in connection with the Hellziechen hammer mill . Back then, Bishop Albrecht of Bamberg enfeoffed Heinrich Kratzer, a citizen of Vilseck, with the hammer Langenbruck and also the hammer Hellziechen. The hammer was powered by the water of the Frankenohe , a tributary of the Vils that flows into the Vils at Gressenwöhr . In 1460, Michel Katzer appears on the hammer, after whom the hammer was named "Zum Katzer" or "Katzenhammer". Around 1770 the hammer mill was modernized by the Ertl family. By marriage the estate came into the possession of those of men who ran it for three generations. The Langenbruck blast furnace and hammer was closed in 1861 and broken down in 1870.

After his death in 1887, Adolf von Mann's second wife sold the estate to Franz Feustl, who in turn sold it to his brother Christian in 1891. In 1913 Fritz Persch was the local landowner, from 1916 Walter Dietel and from 1918 Günther Wulffen. The last owner of Gut Langenbruck was from 1925 until it was replaced in 1937 for the Dr. Hans Winn. The estate was then continued by the Army Base Administration until the end of the war. At the end of 1948 the village and Gut Langenbruck had to be evacuated by order of the US armed forces and the manor building was then demolished.

Disappeared Langenbruck Castle near Vilseck

Construction

The castle, built in the 18th century, had two floors and a double hipped roof. It had five window axes on the broad side, and a single-storey longitudinal wing with five additional window axes and three window axes of the palace building was attached.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 30.3 "  N , 11 ° 47 ′ 51.5"  E