Oberhaselbach Castle

Oberhaselbach Castle today

The upper Haselbach Castle is located in the same district of the market Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg in Lower Bavaria Straubing-Bogen district (Upper Haselbach 1).

history

Towards the end of the 9th century, a posso exchanged his property in Haselbach and Pfaffenberg for goods in Hettenbach and Deggenbach at the Sankt Emmeram monastery . Haselbach Castle is owned by Adelunk von Lindhart at this time . His son Ambrichio I received the castle as his parents' property. Ambrichio became abbot of St. Emeram in 864 and was also bishop of Regensburg from 864 to 891. In 882 he gave the castle to his nephew Gundalbert , who became Vogt of Haselbach. His son Adfolk was also confirmed to have taken possession of Haselbach in 890. The monastery Mallersdorf gets to 1223 an estate in Haselbach for writing services brother Leutold.

Around 1250, the noble Prämer followed from a sideline of the nobility as bailiffs and feudal owners of Haselbach. These took on the family name Haselbeckhen after the castle . In the 13th and 14th centuries, the Haselbeckh were a wealthy, widely ramified noble family. On December 1, 1364, Konrad der Haselbeck zu Pfaffenberg seals a Mallersdorfer monastery document. On December 21, 1391 Ulrich der Haselbeck zu Pfaffenberg seals a certificate from the Mallersdorf monastery. On February 25, 1434 Ulrich Haselbeck zu Neufahrn also seals a Mallersdorfer monastery document. He was succeeded by Jörg Haselbeck, who in 1448 sold the Neufahrn seat to Duke Heinrich . A Haug Dornstayner as well as Ulrich and Heinrich Haselbeck zu Haselbach appear in the first Straubinger Landtafel (around 1425). The Haselbeck appear in the following period on Oberhaselbach. The Haselbeckh was followed by the Donnerstein and this again by the Haselbeckh. A Hans Haselbeck zu Haselbach is a priest to Mallersdorf in 1453 . Hans Haselbeckh built the moated castle that is still preserved today, next to the old castle, between 1480 and 1483. The entire palace complex was built on piles.

The Haselbecks were followed by the lords of Schad around 1600 (the Schads are also attested as Hofmarksherren von Greilsberg from 1593–1642; an Anna Catharina Schad von Mittelbibrach on Oberhaselbach and Greilsberg writes her son on December 19, 1630 her capital on Greilsberg). After the Thirty Years War the castle to the Abbot Placidus Bach Eder was by Prüfening sold. During this time, the castle was expanded and a brewery was also built. Around 1756, the monastery built a summer cellar southeast of the palace. Many of the mighty linden trees, which are under conservation, are likely to come from this time. The last administrator of the provosts was the linguist Father Johannes Kaindl. During the secularization in 1803, the castle came into the possession of the state, but was sold to the farmer Michael Vilsmeier von Pfatter two years later . Other owners were then the Limbrunner, Weber and the Prince of Thurn and Taxis families .

In the years 1835 to 1840, the old Haselbach Castle with the keep and the brewery were demolished due to disrepair. This old castle stood to the west of the current castle. Instead of the tower, a brewhouse was built in 1848 (later converted into a brewery). In the following decades, the tenants (Unsicker, Lipp, Hopfensberger, Zitzelsberger, Lechner, Schanz, Kellnberger, Kamm, Wild) alternated continuously. In 1931 the Oberhaselbach Castle Estate was transferred from the Thurn und Taxis to the ownership of Alois Sigl and was converted into a castle inn. During the Nazi era , the castle inn served as a place for sending children to the area until the American invasion .

In the 90s of the last century it then passed to the Herfurtner family and then to the Vogt family. The current owners have renovated the castle at great expense in recent years.

Oberhaselbach Castle then and now

The old Haselbach Castle was demolished between 1835 and 1840. The beginnings of the new castle are said to date from the years 1480–1483. In 1756 the castle was rebuilt and expanded to the west, and in 1861 extensions and conversions were also carried out. On the engraving by Michael Wening from 1721, Haselbach Castle is a three-story building covered by a half- hip roof. In addition, the old Haselbach Castle can be seen, which is connected to the castle with a bridge. A keep is on the castle side and not on the castle side.

Today Oberhaselbach Castle is a two-story building with corner blocks . The castle is a pond with two wings, which is surrounded on three sides by a moat. In addition, a single-storey house with several dormers belongs to it.

literature

• Günther Pölsterl: Mallersdorf. The Kirchberg regional court, the Eggmühl and Abbach nursing courts. (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern issue 53). Commission for Bavarian History, Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7696-9923-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fritz Hauschild: The end of the war children's area dispatch: the Hamburg KLV camps in 1945. Books on Demand, 2004, p. 209.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Oberhaselbach  - collection of images

• History of Oberhaselbach at "Schützenverein Almenrausch Oberhaselbach"
• Entry on Oberhaselbach Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
• Oberhaselbach on "regiowiki"

Coordinates: 48 ° 46 '32.9 "  N , 12 ° 9' 29.8"  E