Schönberg Palace (Wenzenbach)

Schoenberg Castle

Schönberg Palace (2014)

Schönberg Palace (main front)

Head office in Wenzenbach, blood court of the Schönberg rule

The Schoenberg Castle is a Grade II listed building on Castle 2/4/6 in the municipality Wenzenbach in the district of Regensburg ( Bayern ).

history

The castle was built in the 13th century. In 1269 the castle is mentioned as the property of the Lords of Hohenfels, who were ministerials to the bishops of Regensburg . Later owners were the bishops of Regensburg and the dukes of Bavaria . In 1333 the Satelboger appear as gentlemen on Schönberg. They were followed by the Hauzendorfer in 1335 (a Konrad von Hauzendorf can still be verified as the owner of Schönberg in 1364). Ulrich Pudenstorfer was his successor as ducal caretaker (documented evidence of 1371, among others). Other keepers were Eberhart der Hofer , Werner der Auer (1385), Ulrich der Auer, Purckhart der Prachs (1392), Lienhart der Hilprant (1393), Hanns der Pfaffesanger (1396), Niclas Schwednitz von Hohenburg (1397), Hanns the Pfaffenbanger (1398), Konrad der Haberstorffer (1401) and Wilhelm der Fraunberger (1403). In 1403 Schönberg was issued by Duke Johann von Niederbayern to the knight Prodwitz the Satelboger († 1407) as a pledge. This was followed by Dietrich Satelboger until 1426, and in the middle of 1427 Oswald der Krumpeckh sealed the seal as judge of Schönberg. In 1437 Dietrich Mosheimer was a caretaker on Schönberg. Between 1445 and 1460, the Deuerlingers took care of the maintenance, then followed Erhart Muracher (1462–1467) and in 1468 Jörg Haselbeck, who bought Schönberg. At the beginning of 1498 Duke Albrecht Schönberg bought it back and passed it on to Wolfgang Graf von Kolberg zu Neuenkolberg . Achatz Eberspeck (1501) and Michael Zenger now appear as carers. On September 12, 1504, the castle was conquered by the Roman-German king and later Emperor Maximilian I. After the Battle of Wenzenbach , Duke Albrecht Schönberg moved in and loaned it to Bernhardin von Stauff, Freiherr zu Ehrenfels in 1508 . In 1513 the rule was sold to the Paumgartner family. In 1543 Schönberg passed to the Breitenbach family. After Wilhelm von Breitenbach's death († 1580), Schönberg again fell to the Wittelsbach family and was awarded to the ducal personal physician Thomas Mermann (without the high jurisdiction ) in 1585 . Schönberg was sold to Caspar Carthauser as early as 1589 and just two years later Andreas Georg von Khürmreuth zu Hörmanntorff and Hans Ludwig Trainer (the latter until 1606) were sealed here.

Via the daughter of the trainer Katharina, Schönberg passed on to the Lerchenfelder as marriage property . The Lerchenfelder remained here until 1753, when Schönberg was sold to the Breslau canon Georg Karl Joseph von Stingelheim. The Stingelheim family remained in the possession of Schönberg until 1817, when Karl Alexander von Thurn und Taxis bought the rule. The first class patrimonial court in Schönberg of the Princes of Thurn and Taxis also administered the Bernhardswald and Wiesent patrimonial courts . These last remnants of aristocratic rule were abolished in the 1848 revolution . In 1927 the castle passed to the Vilsmeier family, who a year later built an inn in the farm buildings. In 1957 the property came to the Fichtl family. The current owner is the physician Hans-Hermann Klünemann, who initiated the renovation of the facility with the help of the German Foundation for Monument Protection .

building

In 1726 the palace was rebuilt. In 2010 the renovation of the castle was largely completed.

Copper engraving by Michael Wening (1645–1718) from Schönberg Palace

The castle is a three-storey hipped roof building with an irregularly broken floor plan to the south with a bay window. The core building dates from 1253/54 with a medieval extension. Renovations took place from the late 17th to the early 18th century and around 1770/71. The roof structure was built in 1820/23. There is a baroque St. Joseph palace chapel. The cellars of a former outbuilding, preserved in fragments, are also preserved in the form of two parallel barrel-vaulted cellars made of rubble masonry, probably from the second half of the 16th century. Parts of the curtain wall with shell towers as well as the presumably late medieval castle wall with moat and outer wall made of granite rubble have also been preserved. The former moat, which is now filled in, is used as a garden. Little of the original castle complex has been preserved, such as a wall on the southwest corner and the street “Am Schloss” to house no. 9 as a former moat.

The castle is privately owned.

literature

• Andreas Boos : Castles in the South of the Upper Palatinate , Regensburg Studies and Sources for Cultural History 5, Universitätsverlag Regensburg, 1998.
• Wenzenbach community (ed.): Wenzenbach, young community with a long past. Regensburg 1982.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Diethard Schmid: Altbayern row I issue 66: Regensburg II. The district court Haidau-Pfatter and the Palatinate-Neuburg rule Heilsberg-Wiesent. Munich, 2014, from the series: Commission for Bavarian State History (Ed.): Historischer Atlas von Bayern , ISBN 978-3-7696-6558-1 , p. 612.
2. ↑ Martina Schaeffer: A cash injection for the castle facade. In: Mittelbayerische.de. August 2, 2012, accessed May 26, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Schönberg Palace awakens from its slumber. In: Mittelbayerische.de. January 19, 2009, accessed May 26, 2015 . 

Web links

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

Coordinates: 49 ° 4 '52.7 "  N , 12 ° 12' 14.3"  E