Sarching Castle

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The abandoned Sarching Castle is located in the Sarching district of the same name in the Barbing municipality in the Upper Palatinate district of Regensburg (Obere Dorfstraße 2).

history

Sarching is mentioned between 1030 and 1035 because of the transfer of two Huben zu Sigrihingun to the St. Emmeram monastery .

A century later, ministerial bishoprics are mentioned who name themselves after this place. To 1134 certified Bishop Henry I , that he different goods that are currently still ministeriali beati Petri et alii by him as feudal hold, after the feud return the monastery Prüll would transfer ownership. Various goods would be given from the fiefs of Hartwich and Perchtold von Sarching in case the two should perish without male offspring. These gentlemen von Sarching must therefore have owned a hereditary fief of considerable size. Hartwich von Sarching is referred to as miles (= knight ) in 1147 . From this it can be concluded that a fortified seat in Sarching must have existed as early as the 12th century. In the first half of the 13th century the brothers Heinrich , Konrad and Ortlieb appear several times in episcopal documents. An Albert von Sarching has come down to us between 1235 and 1282 . In 1267 this Albert is mentioned as the grandson of Palwin von Barbing , when the latter sold a tithe to a Regensburg citizen. Albert must have died before 19 November 1282 as his fiefdom at that time already to the Bishop home like were. During this time, a Hermannus de Seirching appeared , who had acted as a guarantor as early as 1268, who was pledged to the high estates property in Sarching in 1289 and to whom 40 pounds of Regensburg pfennigs were paid for his castle hat in Sarching ( ratione Purghute sue ). In the second half of the 13th century, a Läutwin von Sarching (1269) and a Canon Ortlieb von Sarching (1284, 1290) are mentioned. Sarchingers did not appear again until the 14th century, but usually as citizens of Regensburg. But they still keep the headquarters in Sarching, although they no longer live there. In 1327, for example, the seat of Sarching is mentioned as being owned by the deceased citizen Gamerit von Soerching . The Gamerit zu Regensburg, known as von Soerching , was allowed in 1377 by the Dukes Ott and Friedrich to redeem the vest und pfleg zu Donaustauf from the caretaker at that time, Peter the Ekker (he worked here as a caretaker until 1385), and had the fortress until 1392 Hohenburg held a pledge from the Hochstift Regensburg and in 1393 he was also in pledge ownership of Eitting Castle . He also appears as a judge in the suburbs.

After Gamerit von Soerching († 1395) died without a male heir, his son-in-law Chonrat der Dürnsteter was confirmed as the owner of Veste and Dorf Särching in an arbitration process in 1403 . In 1405 it is recorded that this Konrad and his wife bequeathed their Veste Särching to the Regensburg city council after their death . Incidentally, Konrad is not the founder of the castle, as is claimed by an erroneous interpretation of a misleading passage in a bishop's charter ( Conradus Durnsteter fundator ), but only the founder of a mass in Sarching for the castle chapel on March 14, 1404. In 1407 comes the imperial city of Regensburg from Haymeram Gumprecht into the possession of Sarching. In 1450 Sarching is mentioned as a Schrannenort .

In 1417 the Teutonic Order acquired the property in Sarching from the city of Regensburg under the command of Johannes von Gumppenberg . The imperial city could no longer take advantage of an extension of the repurchase right negotiated subsequently in 1323. In 1781, the Teutonic Order exercised lower jurisdiction over the 52 subjects on the town's 12 farms. Sarching Castle was of particular importance as accommodation for representatives of the Reichstag .

Until the end of the German Order Coming Regensburg in 1809, the closed Hofmark and the castle remained in the possession of this order.

Sarching Castle then and now

Sarching Castle after an engraving by Michael Wening from 1721

According to Apian , an arx stood here in the 16th century , his illustration showing a castle with a wall ring , a building, a keep and a smaller gate tower. According to Michael Wening it is said: The Schlößl is surrounded by a dry moat and high walls ; It was destroyed by fire in the Thirty Years War but was rebuilt after 1666. The not very precise engraving by Michael Wening from 1721 shows low walls with an incorrect angular course and a larger building with a castle tower that is covered with a tent roof. The layout is still drawn like this in illustrations at the beginning of the 19th century. The castle was accessible via a drawbridge and a gate system; from the Bering a drawbridge led to the residential building.

Within the Hofmark there was also the St. Ulrichs chapel, a beneficiary house and the office or court servant house. This palace chapel was destroyed in 1807.

In the place of the former Niederungsburg there is a rural property with a castle-like character in the southwestern edge of the town. This two-storey, gable- roofed gable roof construction, including the extension, essentially dates from the 16th and 17th centuries. Century. A trench remains with a medieval lining wall made of rubble stone. The oval shape of the system reaches a maximum of 50 m in diameter.

literature

  • Andreas Boos : Castles in the south of the Upper Palatinate. The early and high medieval fortifications of the Regensburg area. Universitätsverlag Regensburg, Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3-930480-03-4 , pp. 338–341.
  • Stephan Acht: The court stamps of the German Order Coming Regensburg. In: Paul Mai (Ed.): 800 years of the German Order Coming St. Aegid in Regensburg 1210–2010. Exhibition in the Bischöfliche Zentralbibliothek Regensburg, St. Petersweg 11-13, June 19 to September 26, 2010. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7954-2421-3 , pp. 183-185.
  • Diethard Schmid: Regensburg I. The district court Stadtamhof, the imperial rule Donaustauf and Wörth. (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Part of Altbayern Heft 41). Commission for Bavarian History. Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-7696-9904-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schmid, 1976, p. 61.

Web links

Commons : Sarching Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 0 '44.3 "  N , 12 ° 13' 38.2"  E