Neusath Castle

Neusath Castle today

The listed Neusath Castle is located in the eponymous district of the Upper Palatinate town of Nabburg in the Schwandorf district of Bavaria (Neusath 21).

history

The Muracher zu Guteneck are proven to be the first owners of Neusath . On January 27, 1344, Konrad der Muracher von Neysan sold a farm near Höflarn to his cousin of the same name in Murach . In 1488, Neusath was in the hands of Otto von Murach . In 1588 Albrecht von Murach the Elder , inheritance gift in Lower Bavaria , sold the free property to Paul Spieß and his wife Elisabeth , née Pülger. The new owner was unable to manage the property himself because of his work as the imperial steward, but instead entrusted this task to his brother Hans Spieß . The Paul pike was from Pfalzgraf Ludwig although the country Aces freedom recognized, but No further rights. There had been lawsuits because of Hans Spieß , who asserted various forms of justice (hunting rights, shepherd's "stake money"). It was not until 1579 that Paul Spieß was granted a privilege by Elector Ludwig VI. the lower jurisdiction on Neusath. After Paul Spieß's death (towards the end of the 16th century), the widow of Paul Spieß tried to sell the property. After attempts to sell to the city of Nabburg and to the Count Palatine Friedrich in 1603 failed, Ludwig von Scharffenberg got the chance on October 24, 1605. Because of the Thirty Years' War , the property in Neusath was badly affected, as Ludwig von Scharffenberg reported to Amberg in 1635 ( everything was blinded and put in my Schloßkhammer fire ). Ludwig von Scharffenberg had already emigrated to Sulzbach in 1629 because of his faith and had his estate looked after by the manager Hans Wilhelm Distl . As a non-Catholic, Ludwig von Scharffenberg tried to sell the estate, but did not succeed. His request to allow him residence, usage and administrative rights on Neusath until a sale was made, was refused by Elector Maximilian , as were further petitions by the emigrant up to 1641, who had moved to Nuremberg in 1629. On September 20, 1641, Sabina von Scharffenberg referred to herself as a widow for the first time. In 1642 she was given the prospect of at least a longer stay in Neusath.

After Sabina von Scharffenberg's death in 1649, the property passed to her husband's niece, Maria Elisabeth Fuchs von Lemnitz . Since she died childless in the same year, her sister Maria Ursula Fuchs followed on Neusath. In 1652 she married Christoph Meichsner von Allkoven from Chammünster . Their son Wolf Christoph Ludwig Meichsner was in charge of the estate from 1698 to 1735. He was in turn his son Christoph Adam Bernhard von Meichsner , Bavarian chamberlain and sergeant in charge of the Preising Dragoon Regiment . He held Neusath until his death († May 28, 1771). His brother-in-law Arnold Bonaventura Freiherr von Sauer took over the guardianship of the two minor-racing daughters Maria Franziska and Maria Rosa . The latter came into sole possession of Neusath in 1774 after a severance payment from her sister. In 1775 she married Karl Baron von Riedl , lieutenant colonel À la suite in Bavaria , who then formally took over the estate. He wanted to set up a local court on Neusath, but did not experience this anymore († November 6, 1813). After the childless death of his wife (1814), Neusath came to Karl Bruno Hans Reisner, Baron von Lichtenstern , the nephew appointed as universal heir . This was allowed to convert the existing patrimonial court into a local court on January 21, 1817 , but this was again converted into a second class patrimonial court with a resolution of May 8, 1821. The tithe due to the Baron von Lichtenstern in the village of Neusath was allodified on August 1st, 1819 . In 1947 the Neusath community joined the Diendorf community; During the municipal reform of 1974, the municipality of Diendorf fell to the city of Nabburg. Today's owners of Neusath Castle are Karl Ludwig Freiherr von Lichtenstern and his wife Elisabeth Baroness von Lichtenstern .

Access to Neusath Castle

Neusath Castle - view from the street

Neusath Castle today

The castle is a two-storey hipped roof wing complex from the 17th and 18th centuries, which was expanded in the 19th century. In the northeast corner of the old part, the remains of a formerly round tower have been preserved, inside an old spiral staircase made of oak wood. The wing has ceilings with simple stucco frameworks and rosettes on the inside, while corner pilasters and window frames in yellow are attached on the outside. A three-winged farmyard from the 18th and 19th centuries belongs to the castle. This half-hipped roof building adjoins the castle to the south.

A castle chapel, which was redesigned in the 19th century, is located in the central castle building. This is consecrated to the Holy Trinity . Inside it is a simple, flat, rectangular room. In 1849 Karl Franz Reisner Baron von Lichtenstern had the chapel rebuilt and designed as it can still be seen today. The high altar is a modest structure with two columns and lateral tendrils. The altar sheet shows the Holy Trinity with the coat of arms of the Lichtenstern with the designation "IH 1846". Interesting is a tombstone erected in the castle chapel on May 1st, 1739 by the parents Franz and Anna von Lichtenstern for their five deceased children.

The castle also has a castle park and a castle restaurant. Until 1956, the now demolished hunter's and forester's house stood at the entrance to the complex, in which the respective foresters and, for three generations, the Haller estate managers lived. Church composer Michael Haller was born here in 1840 .

The castle was extensively renovated in 2011. The owners received a recognition award from the Bavarian Hypo-Kulturstiftung for the renovation in line with the listed buildings .

literature

• Elisabeth Müller-Luckner: Nabburg . (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern booklet 50). Commission for Bavarian State History, Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7696-9915-7 , pp. 214-219.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A fresh face for a noble residence. In: oberpfalznetz.de. November 7, 2007, accessed July 29, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Monument prize and recognition from the Hypo-Kulturstiftung 2007 for exemplary performance in the Upper Palatinate. Government of the Upper Palatinate, July 16, 2007, accessed on July 29, 2015 (press release). 
3. ↑ Monument Prize. (No longer available online.) Hypo-Kulturstiftung, 2007, archived from the original on August 3, 2012 ; Retrieved July 29, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

Commons : Schloss Neusath  - collection of images

• Entry on Neusath Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
• History of Neusath at "Schloßschützen Neusath e. V. "
• Aerial photos of Neusath
• Konrad Haller: Neusath near Nabburg - an ancient noble seat. The Upper Palatinate, 1961, 49th year (PDF)

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '54.3 "  N , 12 ° 12' 39.3"  E