Penkhof Castle

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Penkhof Castle

The Penkhof Castle is a castle in the district Penkhof the Upper Palatinate municipality Kümmersbruck in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach of Bavaria .

history

Penkhof was a fiefdom of the Landgraviate of Leuchtenberg . In the light bergischen Urbar from the 14th century Hans Zeylmaier mentions the dreariness Penkhof in Amberg held. In the registry of 1362 it is said that “Chunrad Roßtäuscher from Amberg” received the Penkhof farm as a fief. With the will of Heinrich the Kümmersbrucker of the year 1380 he gave his wife Anna, daughter of the Oberammerthaler Hofmarkherrn Hermann von Ammerthal , the "wasteland of Penkh, which is the fief of my lord the landgrave". In 1435, the landgrave lent half of the farm at Penk, which “Chunrad der alt Haiden” had previously, to “mertlein den mandlein von Frawenreuth”. In 1463 Konrad Haiden allowed his son Jörg Haiden to sell the interest from the Penk estate to Konrad Kuchler, a citizen of Pfreimd , for 100 pounds pfennigs. Conz HaidenAmalie was awarded the Penkhof fiefdom by Landgrave Johann von Leuchtenberg in 1488 . After his death he left the widow Amalie and two daughters, Anna and Magdalena. In 1505 Penkthof was given to Gregor Mendel; he was the guardian and fiefdom of the bereaved and was probably married to Amalie. In her third marriage she married Thomas Möringer, who was entrusted with Penkhof on November 23, 1513.

Anna, the daughter of Conz Haiden, married Hans Kastner , Pronontar zu Heidelberg . In 1518, Thomas Möringer and Hans Kastner are named together in the registers of the Landsassen . On November 19, 1526, Hans Kastner was enfeoffed with Penkhof alone. After his death in 1532 Hans von Schaffhausen was allowed to sell the Penkhof on behalf of the widow Anna. In 1549, elector Frederick II granted the freedom of the local people. Hans Kodnit seems to have died in 1561, because on July 4, 1562 an inventory was made of his legacy. The couple had three children: Endres, Wolfgang and Hans. They were enfeoffed with Penkhof on April 16, 1561, and they also owned Kümmersbruck Castle . Hans studied theology and became a Protestant pastor in Nabburg . Endres became first vice-president of the Lutheran church council in Amberg, which Elector Ludwig had set up. Endres died on December 30, 1578. On December 29, 1574, he concluded a partition contract over Penkhof with his brother Wolf. In 1578 Wolf Kodnit also acquired the other part of Penkhof from his brother's widow Appolonia. He built his own Schlössl in Penkhof for occasional stays. In 1585 his widow and her four children, Hans, Wolf, Maria, Margaretha and Susanne, were enfeoffed with the Hofmark . They sold their property on August 9, 1588 to Peter Ludwig from Amberg († January 23, 1613). The Hofmark then fell to Paul Kohl, who had married a daughter of Ludwig. He died on November 21, 1628 in Penkhof.

Christoph von Lerchenfeld on Ammerland, Mosack, Schönberg and Wenzenbach acquired the estate from Paul Kohl's widow on December 1, 1629. The farm was deserted in the Thirty Years' War after the first invasion of the Swedes in 1632. After the death of Christoph von Lerchenfeld († 1636 in Landshut ), Sigmund von Löwenthal from Amberg received the estate on July 3, 1645 at an auction. He gave the completely deserted Hofmark to his son Heinrich Karl von Löwenthal, who was enfeoffed with it in 1655. This was financially and physically relatively poor and he wanted to sell the estate in 1692, but he did not succeed. He died in 1695. His widow lived there for a while with her six children and in 1727 handed the Hofmark over to Franz Melchior von Löwenthal, electoral councilor and military commissioner in Amberg. He died at the age of 49 on April 19, 1743 in Amberg. His widow Eleonore Ernestine, b. von Fritz and her six children sold the Hofmark Penkhof on May 22, 1769 to Maria Elis, Countess von Butler auf Raigering († March 24, 1807). During her time, the original castle building burned down on April 7, 1793 due to the carelessness of the forester's mother, who lived in the castle. After that it was easily rebuilt in 1799 by the Count Butlers.

The next owners were Theodor Graf Butler (1807), Major von Xylander (1812), Minister Graf von Türkheim (1816), School Councilor G. Stephan Fröhlich (1817), Poststallmeister Georg Hirschmann (1832), First Lieutenant Joseph Seibert von Woppenhof (1835) and Anton Graf von Pestaloza, called "Pestaluzz" (1848), who smashed the Hofmark.

Coat of arms of the von Buttlar family at Penkhof Palace
Wine cellar of Penkhof Castle

building

The existing two-story castle building is a plastered solid structure with a crippled hipped roof . On the annex on the street side there is a coat of arms of those von Buttlar with the year "1790". The building is essentially medieval and was rebuilt after the fire of 1793.

The farmhouse with a former wine cellar across the street, a single-storey plastered building with a gable roof from the 18th century, is one of them.

literature

  • Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district . Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1991, pp. 137–140.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 49.6 "  N , 11 ° 54 ′ 54.4"  E