Regendorf Castle

Regendorf Castle, east wing

The Regensdorf Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Waldheim Road 6-14 in the district of Regensdorf the community Zeitlarn in the district of Regensburg ( Bayern ).

history

The Lords of Regendorf, initially referred to as "Lords of Regeldorf", were first mentioned at the beginning of the 13th century. In 1490 Hans Regeldorfer zu Regeldorf (today Regendorf ) and Wolfsegg is entered in the country table; this Regeldorfer († after August 16, 1505) was a nurse to Altmannstein and a judge in Stadtamhof . In 1475 he appears in the entourage of Duke Louis IX. at the Landshut wedding . His presumed brother was Roger Regeldorfer, abbot in the convent . Hans Regeldorfer was married twice: The first marriage he concluded with Agathe Ried von Kölnbach († 1479), the second with Margarethe von Muggenthal zu Eichhofen . He left two daughters and no male descendants, and so after his death Regendorf came back into other hands as a man's fief .

In 1515 the castle was rebuilt for the then owner, the Regensburg Imperial Coin Master Martin Lerch († on February 21, 1538 in Regendorf). He had to have a crucifixion group built for the manslaughter of a Münzknecht in 1513 . This is now in the apse of the Minorite Church in Regensburg.

In 1699 Franziska Adelheid von Braittenburg sold the castle and Hofmark Regendorf to Philipp Anton Leopold Freiherr von Oberndorff , who came from the Upper Palatinate line of the Oberndorff family. They rebuilt the castle around 1840 and raised it by one floor. In 1884 Regendorf Castle was sold to the Reichsrat Freiherr von Faber in Stein near Nuremberg and later to the Counts Faber-Castell . From these it was acquired in 1916 by the royal Bavarian treasurer Eduard von Harnier (1860–1947), the father of the resistance fighter Adolf von Harnier . Since the von Harnier family was known to the National Socialist authorities as anti-National Socialists, they had to vacate the castle in 1936 and sell it to the city of Regensburg. Today the castle is privately owned.

Building description

Regendorf Castle is a core from 1515 consisting of two parallel wing structures, which are connected in the middle by an intermediate building. The main building is a three-storey hipped roof building with an H-shaped floor plan. The eastern wing has two four-story round towers and a garden staircase. Former stables , two-storey stable barn with half-hipped roof, marked 1830; on the southwest corner there is a Jew's stone with a Hebrew inscription. This tombstone of Schabbataj ben Menachem from 1249 probably comes from the medieval Jewish cemetery in Regensburg. After the Jews were expelled from Regensburg in 1519, the then owner of the castle, Martin Lerch, arranged for it to be walled in as a building block. The palace chapel at the north end of the east wing dates from 1688. Until the Regendorfer church was built in 1907, it was also used as a village church.

The former stables is a two-storey stable barn with a half-hipped roof from 1830. Remains of the terraced landscape garden with staircase from the 18th century can be found west of the castle. The park enclosure, with a fence to the south, otherwise a stone wall with stone pillars, dates from around 1840. The garden house, the so-called tea house, is a single-storey hipped mansard roof from the end of the 18th century. In addition, the enclosing walls of a tower from the 18th / 19th Century preserved. A memorial stone for Countess Oberndorff in the form of a pyramid with an inscription dates from 1843. The pavilion is a two-storey hipped mansard roof building from the end of the 18th century. The so-called gardener's house is a single-storey hipped roof building from the 18th century. A deep well with a brick shaft has also been preserved.

literature

• Georg Dehio : Bavaria V: Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate - Handbook of German Art Monuments , Drexler Jolanda / Hubel Achim (arrangement), Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1991.

Web links

• Entry on Regendorf in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ There is a document sealed by him for this day under document: Documents A-II-26 in the European document archive Monasterium.net .
2. ↑ Franz Michael Ress: Buildings, monuments and foundations of German ironworkers (written on behalf of the Association of German Ironworkers ). Verlag Stahleisen, Düsseldorf 1960, p. 299.
3. ↑ probably this: Lothar von Faber
4. ↑ Marion Detjen : Appointed Public Enemy - Resistance, Resistance and Refusal to the Nazi Regime in Munich . Published by the City of Munich, Buchendorfer Verlag 1998, ISBN 3-927984-81-7 , p. 173.
5. ↑ Christina M. Förster: The Harnier Circle - Resistance to National Socialism in Bavaria . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 1996, ISBN 3-506-79979-7 , pp. 202-213.

Coordinates: 49 ° 5 ′ 32.8 "  N , 12 ° 6 ′ 27.9"  E