Pirkensee Castle

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Pirkensee Castle (2007)

The listed Pirkensee Castle is located in the Upper Palatinate town of Maxhütte-Haidhof (Floriansweg 7).

history

In 1326 a Hertel von Pirchense appeared for the first time as the landlord of Pirkensee. This was followed by a Härtweig von Pirkensee, a Hertel von Birchensee, a Friedrich der Pirkensäer, and from 1425 a Peter Kanut von Pürkensee, whose wife was Barbara von Hohenfels. From 1470 to 1521 Ruprecht and Lienhart die Eytenhart are named as owners.

From 1521 (but possibly already from 1514) to 1731 the Teufel von Pirkensee were the local owners. The first here was Georg Teufel (referred to as the judge of Regenstauf in 1540 ), his wife was a Grünbeck and sister of the Regenstauf caretaker Sigmund Grünbeck; his son Wolf has started to develop Pirkensee into a noble residence. Jörg Wolf Teufel, forester at Burglengenfeld , was married to Veronika Sinzenhofer from Leonberg. From 1731 to 1797 the barons of Franconia were the Hofmark owners of Pirkensee.

Johann Bernhard von Francken (* December 2, 1668 in Burg an der Wupper ) had the old castle demolished in 1632 during the Thirty Years War and built the new castle there from 1731 to 1734 as a baroque three-wing complex with the distinctive onion domes and the castle chapel St. Anna. The castle also had a distillery and an observatory. Von Francken was married to Catherine zum Pütz and had eleven children with her. After the Francken, the property went to Baron Karl von Eckart in 1797.

During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, a hospital was housed in the castle . In 1904 the heirs of the Du Moulin-Eckart family moved to the newly built New Leonberg Castle . Pirkensee Castle was managed by landlords until the end of the Second World War . After the war, many refugees and displaced persons were quartered in the castle . The grounds of the castle grounds, including the agricultural buildings, were acquired by a community of settlers who provided the local displaced persons with a livelihood.

At the end of 1990 the castle was sold to a Frankfurt real estate company that wanted to run a castle hotel with a conference center. After the extensive renovation, the castle was set on fire on October 7, 1999 by an arsonist and was badly damaged. The castle has been partially built to this day, but the castle has now been repaired by a private operator and can be rented for festive occasions.

Pirkensee Castle after a pen drawing by Georg Hämmerl (around 1800)

Pirkensee Castle then and now

As early as 1600 there was a two-storey, gable-roof-roofed building with a tower, protective wall and a gate passage. During acts of war during the Thirty Years' War, the old castle was destroyed by the imperial troops under Leonhard Teufel in June 1632.

Pirkensee Castle is a three-wing complex open to the north with four corner towers, which was built around 1734. Remains of a medieval, stepped rampart with an oval floor plan can be seen. The castle chapel St. Anna, which is located in the eastern wing of the castle and was built around 1735, belongs to the castle. The chapel has a sacred room furnished in the early Rococo style. The carved cheeks, the confessional and the stucco work are remarkable. The tabernacle is designed in the Rocaille style. Particularly noteworthy is a ceiling fresco erroneously attributed to Cosmas Damian Asam ; However, based on an assessment by Erika Hanfstaengl , this is incorrect, because the style and composition of the fresco belongs to a later period. The fresco shows a Mary with the child, surrounded by the Saints Joseph, Zacharias, Anna, Elisabeth and Joachim. In the west there is a manorial gallery. The palace chapel was also severely damaged in the 1999 fire. Until the inauguration of the new parish church "Christ König Pirkensee" in 1960, the chapel served as a parish church.

An attempt is made to revitalize the castle through an annual martini exhibition in November. At the moment, consideration is being given to converting the palace into a residential complex with 16 apartments.

literature

  • Georg Hager: The art monuments of Upper Palatinate & Regensburg. V Burglengenfeld district office. (Unchanged reprint of the Munich edition, 1906). Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1983. ISBN 3-486-50435-5 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth Gäde: Conrad Teufel von Porkensee (1527-1582). In the service of princely lords across Europe. Die Oberpfalz , 104th year, 2016, pp. 87–98.
  2. ↑ Pirkensee Castle on aerial photo Laumer
  3. ↑ Erika Hanfstaengl: Cosmas Damian Asam. Neuer Filser Verlag: Munich 1939, p. 146.
  4. ↑ Pirkensee Castle is not mentioned in the catalog raisonné of Asam's frescoes. See Bruno Bushart & Bernhard Rupprecht (eds.). Cosmas Damian Asam 1686-1739; Life and work . Exhibition for the 300th birthday, Aldersbach Monastery, Eastern Bavaria, Aug. 15 - Oct. 19, 1986 (3rd edition). Prestel-Verlag: Munich 1986 (p. 198 ff). ISBN 3-7913-0767-3 .
  5. ^ Martini exhibition 2013, Schloss Pirkensee
  6. ↑ Living in the castle: plan is being examined. MZ of July 23, 2014 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 9 '50.1 "  N , 12 ° 4' 39.3"  E