Castle walls (Escheldorf)

The underground remains of the abandoned listed castle walls are in the district of Escheldorf in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Reuth near Erbendorf in the Tirschenreuth district . The castle in Escheldorf was known as the wall .

history

Escheldorf also appears in the Leuchtenberg fiefdom from 1252. The owners were the Trautenberg from 1478 to 1515 , followed by Erlbeck from 1515 to 1563 and then by Giech from 1563 to 1629 . In 1629 Wolf Achaz von Giech and in 1630 Georg Dietrich von Giech are named on Escheldorf and Mauern. The Giech hold the Mauerhof as a Brandenburg fiefdom and as a Landsasserei . This is followed by the Penkendorf in 1653–1721 and then by the Sparneck in 1721–1750 . The next owners are the Waldenfels between 1750 and 1811 , Philipp Wilhelm von Waldenfels has been the landlord here since 1796 . Escheldorf 1811 allodifiziert and Baron Reitsenstein on Reuth sold.

The patrimonial jurisdiction comes to Reuth in the district court of Kemnath and Escheldorf is incorporated into Röthenbach in 1808. In 1931 it was reclassified to the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab and in 1972 it was incorporated into Reuth near Erbendorf.

Castle walls then and now

At the beginning of the 17th century, the seats in Eschelsdorf and Röthenbach were lost. According to the Bavarian list of monuments, there are archaeological findings from the Middle Ages and the early modern period in the area of ​​the former castle walls in Escheldorf.

literature

• Heribert Sturm (1975): Kemnath. District judge Waldeck-Kemnath with sub-office Pressath . (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern issue 40). Commission for Bavarian State History, Michael Laßleben Verlag , Munich. ISBN 3-7696-9902-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reuth near Erbendorf List of monuments from Reuth near Erbendorf
2. ↑ The art monuments of Bavaria
3. ↑ Heribert Sturm, 1975, pp. 252ff.

Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '16.3 "  N , 12 ° 8' 0.8"  E