Lixenried Castle

The Lixenried Castle is located in the same district of the Upper Palatinate town of Furth in the forest in the district of Cham of Bavaria (Lixenried 16). The former castle lies on a dome-like elevation, the so-calledinstaller-Bühl, on the southern edge of the foothills of the scourge bar, which slopes down on three sides.

history

The place name mentioned in 1301 as Luchsenried is derived on the one hand from the lynx living here, on the other hand from the term Litzen = Lützel (= small). Before 1550 there is no evidence of a fortification in this place. This year, however Lixenried was Georg Erlbeck to Edelmannsgut except all Hoff Mark Justice charged. In the depiction of Philipp Apian from 1568, a two-storey building with a bay window and a crippled hipped roof and other ancillary buildings within a wooden enclosure appears here . In 1579, Georg Erlbeck was granted lower jurisdiction , although it was emphasized in the late 18th century that Lixenried was not a real Hofmark . The property then came to Ludwig Erlbeck and then to his widow. Lixenried sold this to Oswald Kolb zu Raindorf in 1590 . In 1622 he was followed by Andre Kolb , who in 1629 had to leave the country as a Calvinist nobleman. In 1640 he sold his seat to Wilhelm Balthasar von Kürmreuth , from whom it came to his brother-in-law Georg Wilhelm Fuchs zu Arnschwang . This sold his property to Albrecht Sigmund von Löwenthal ; his son sold Lixenried in 1691 to Johann Baptist Walser , who, however, already sold it to Johann Christoph von Hauzenberg in 1694 . In 1797 you can find Johann Benedikt Reinhardstöttner here , who was ennobled in 1820. Lixenried remained in the possession of this family until the beginning of the 20th century (Ferdinand Peregrin Cajetan and Karl von Reinhardstoettner, 1909).

Lixenried Castle today

The current palace construction dates back to 1883. The old castle was demolished in 1916/17; it still contained a baroque castle chapel. Today the castle is a villa-like building that is used as a private house. The old castle stood on the site of the Zellner Inn (Bergstrasse 41).

literature

• Bernhard Ernst: Castle building in the southeastern Upper Palatinate from the early Middle Ages to the early modern period, Part II catalog (=  work on the archeology of southern Germany . Volume 16 ). Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2001, ISBN 3-933474-20-5 , pp. 178-180 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lixenried on Schlossarchiv.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 32.6 "  N , 12 ° 45 ′ 42.4"  E