Riglasreuth Castle

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View of the west side of Riglasreuth Castle

The listed Riglasreuth Castle is located in the Upper Palatinate community of Neusorg in the Tirschenreuth district (Riglasreuth 51).

history

The place was first mentioned as Riglsreuth around 1200 in a document from the Reichenbach monastery . The local castle was mentioned at least indirectly in 1283 when the village was sold by the Landgraves of Leuchtenberg to Duke Ludwig of Bavaria . Later documents say that only half the village was sold to the Wittelsbach family . After the house contract of Pavia of 1329 Riglasreuth came to the "Palatinate of Bavaria", the later Upper Palatinate . In 1348 the Trautenbergers sold half of Riglasreuth, which they owned , to the Speinshart Monastery . In 1407 Rüger Theuerner zu Theuern sold the castle and the property belonging to it to Hans von Mengersreuth. A "Heinrich Mengelsreuter" was named in 1412 and a "Matheis von Meingosrewt zu Rigelrewt" in 1416, who signed an opening contract with the city of Nuremberg. This was important for the Nuremberg merchants insofar as the Altstrasse ran through Riglasreuth from Nuremberg to Eger . In 1512, "Endres von Mengersreuth zu Riglasreuth" was named as the owner of the castle, who also appeared in the Palatinate land register from 1518. The estate remained in the possession of Mengersreuther until 1650, when it came to Georg Druckmüller, in 1659 to the Böhm family and in 1663 to Georg von Brodeis. The hammer mill passed to the Schreyer family of hammer masters in 1700, but was again with the Brodeis in 1710. The estate was auctioned to Franz Bernhard von Hirschberg in 1776. The owner from 1845 was the knight Karl von Haubner, who was married to a von Hirschberg. After the death of his wife and daughter, he sold it to the Bavarian king in 1866. Due to the large forest holdings, it was used as a royal forestry office from then on.

Riglasreuth Castle today

The castle is located as a Niederungsburg on the western edge of the town of the same name at the transition from the old Egerstraße over the Fichtelnaab in a river loop. A major fire destroyed large parts of the building in 1849, and the knight Karl von Haubner rebuilt it in the classical style. The building was rebuilt around 1920 after another fire.

The Bering , recognizable in the cadastral plan of 1840 , formed an irregular polygon that was adapted to the course of the river on one side. There were several buildings inside and on the wall, the main building being at the site of the burnt down castle. The main entrance to the castle is located south of the main building. In the south-west corner of the Bering is the St. Wolfgang Chapel, which is said to have been built in 1543. It was rebuilt after the fire of 1849. There were farm buildings within the Bering, one of which is still preserved as a coach house. This auxiliary building is a single-storey, plastered solid construction with a gable roof that is hipped on one side and which is followed by the remains of the castle wall. Incidentally, the houses there today follow the former castle wall or the existing moat around the complex.

The former castle was used as a forestry office and is now used as a residential building. It is a two-story quarry stone building with a hipped roof and ten new bat dormers . Gerald Braun, architect and current owner, is in the process of extensively renovating the castle. In the basement were u. a. The vaults of Riglasreuth Castle were uncovered, which is very important for the building, as it enables the rising damp to be kept away by ventilation. Backfilling the cellars in the 1960s caused major damage from rising damp.

literature

  • Ulrich Kinder: The fortifications in the Tirschenreuth district . (= Work on the archeology of southern Germany. Volume 28), (pp. 189–192). Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-933474-82-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of listed objects in Neusorg
  2. ↑ Riglasreuth on schlossarchiv.de
  3. ↑ Riglasreuth Castle opens its gates on the Open Monument Day
  4. ↑ Riglasreuth: Sweating against moisture

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Coordinates: 49 ° 55 ′ 20.1 ″  N , 11 ° 58 ′ 1.3 ″  E