Rupprechtsreuth Castle

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Rupprechtsreuth Castle today

The Rupprechtsreuth Castle is located in the Rupprechtsreuth district of the Upper Palatinate market Mantel ; the former castle is now used as a restaurant.

history

The nobleman "Hans Less" is recorded in the books of the Community Office Parkstein-Weiden from 1416 and 1440 . On April 12, 1455, Wolfgang Erlbeck and his wife received the seat of Rupprechtsreuth as part of the Parkstein castle guard estate as a fief. In addition, Wilhelm and Hans the Mendel had a forestry hatch in the Parkstein rule, which belonged to their seat in Rupprechtsreuth. One of the feudal duties was the position of a horse in case of war. In the feudal deeds of the 16th century, only one “Hof zu Rupprechtsreuth” is given for the Mendels. On January 7, 1510, Georg Mendel von Steinfels and shortly afterwards Hans Mendel issued a fiefdom lapel for Rupprechtsreuth. In 1521 "Jörg Mendel zu Rupprechtsreuth" was named among the Sulzbachian Landsassen in the Parkstein-Weiden office and in 1525 his heir. On July 15, 1529, the widow Margaretha Mendel issued a guardian fiefdom lapel for her son Kunz Mendel. The widow then married Christoph Raiser, who appeared on September 3, 1538 as her fiefdom holder and on April 30th 1543 as fiefdom holder of his three children, Hans Martin, Anna and Sabina. "Christoph Raiser" is entered in the records of the Young Palatinate from 1532 to 1566. His son Hans Martin first issued a feudal lapel for himself and his two sisters on January 24, 1562. In the Landsassen register of 1589 his son "Christoff Raiser" is named as his successor. He received Rupprechtsreuth as a man and woman feud . Even after the death of Count Palatinate Wolfgang , Rupprechtsreuth was awarded to him on June 28, 1599, albeit after an emphatic request to pay homage to him. Because of the damage he had suffered from the Thirty Years' War and in order to “not at all be begging at my age next to my also spent wife”, he asked for permission to sell Ruppersreuth to his son-in-law Thomas Wilhelm von Sazenhofen . There was another problem behind this, namely the country estate had been confiscated in 1629 and Hans Christoff Raiser had emigrated as a Protestant to Neustadt am Kulm in Brandenburg , where he died on June 5, 1629. Simon von Labrique, the Vice Chancellor in the Principality of Neuburg , transferred Rupprechtsreuth with all pertinances limited to three years to Thomas von Sazenhofen. In the meantime, Rupprechtsreuth had been further devastated by the war and its peasants had been driven out or killed. In 1637 Johann Seyler, captain from the electoral Trier , became interested in the run-down country estate. This was granted to him after the previous owner and other relatives of Hans Christoff Raiser were not interested in buying it. However, the buyer only paid the first purchase installment of 500 florins and then submitted various complaints about the condition of Rupprechtsreuth in order to avoid further obligations; in the course of the disputes he then went to Bohemia and was no longer heard from.

On April 5, 1656, Georg Andreas von Ehrenstein, who had been a district judge and caretaker in the Parkstein office since 1651, acquired the estate together with the Weißenstein wasteland . For reasons of age, he was followed in 1681 by his son August von Ehrenstein and in 1701 by his son Georg Christof. This refused to make the agreed payments to the parents, so that the property ran into increasing difficulties and had to be auctioned in 1724. Johann Adam Junker von Oberkunreuth bought the estate from the Gantmass and in 1725 gave up his compulsory Landsassen. He was followed by his son Baron Josef von Junker, who later became head forest master for the Nordgau forest district. After his death († 1742) the estate was administered by his widow, née Sazenhoferin, and passed to Moritz von Junker in 1759. In 1814 his son Christoph von Junker took over the property. Around 1800 the manorial village consisted of the castle, 20 houses and 106 inhabitants.

In 1814 Rupprechtsreuth was transferred to the Kingdom of Bavaria and a second-class patrimonial court was formed there. The rural community of Rupprechtsreuth was incorporated into the district court of the older order Weiden in 1838. The patrimonial jurisdiction was abolished in Bavaria in 1848. The incorporation to Mantel took place in 1946.

Construction

The building of the former country estate stands next to the village pond and is the most striking building in Rupprechtsreuth. The current building dates back to the first half of the 18th century. A coat of arms stone is walled in above the portal and the year 1725. The house has a striking mansard roof ; the building now houses an inn.

St. Barbara Castle Chapel from Rupprechtsreuth Castle

On the west side of the castle building is the Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Barbara , which was built in 1757 by the Barons von Junker. Today it belongs to the parish of Neunkirchen an der Waldnaab. The chapel benefited in 1775 . It has a choir closed on three sides with a flat ceiling and is equipped with a rococo altar . The altarpiece shows the execution of Barbara with the sword. The rule oratorio is on the east side. On the roof of one's roof skylights in onion form attached, in which the church bell hangs. The chapel was recently renovated with the help of the church painter Franz Weber from Amberg .

literature

  • Hans Zenger: Former country estate Rupprechtsreuth. Founded between Mantel and Neunkirchen around 1400. What our homeland tells us , 1978, issue 3.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Rupprechtsreuth  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heribert Sturm : Neustadt an der Waldnaab - Weiden. Community Office Parkstein - Weiden . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Old Bavaria, No. 47). Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7696-9912-2 , p. 88, 209–214, 268, 328, 396, 405 , above ( digital-sammlungen.de [accessed on February 6, 2020]).
  2. (St. Barbara) Fam. Melchner Rupprechtsreuth , accessed on February 6, 2020.

Coordinates: 49 ° 39 '56.9 "  N , 12 ° 3' 39.9"  E