Stockenroth Castle

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The Stockenroth Castle is a former castle in today Sparnecker district Stockenroth in the district of Hof in Upper Franconia . It was the seat of the local noble family von Sparneck and later an official seat of the Margraves of Brandenburg-Kulmbach .

Sparnecker Castle

The castle of the Lords of Sparneck should have existed in Stockenroth as early as the 14th century.

In a feud , Heinz von Lüchau destroyed the Stockenrother Castle and its outbuildings after Wolf von Sparneck had set fire to a sheep farm in Hartungs , where 400 sheep are said to have died.

The Sparnecker had the infamous robber baron Hans Thomas Absberg supports what the 1523 Swabian League called on the scene, the many castles of accomplices destroyed, as well as the neighboring castles of Sparnecker in their home country, including the castle Uprode that Wasserburg Weißdorf that Sparneck Castle and the Waldsteinburg . Since the Stockenrother castle had fallen victim to a fire a few years earlier, it was not attacked. After all the other castles had been razed , the Sparneckers in Stockenroth quickly rebuilt the castle.

Margravial office building

After the fall of the Sparnecker, the margraves set up an office there in 1563 and around 1680 the offices of Münchberg , Stockenroth and Hallerstein were combined to form the Oberamt with Münchberg-Stockenroth with headquarters in Stockenroth Castle.

In 1731, the then bailiff Johann Georg Hartung moved his residence back to Sparneck . The Stockenrother Castle fell victim to the pickaxe in 1762. The Oberamt Münchberg-Stockenroth-Hallerstein was dissolved in 1779 and added to the Provincial Governor of Hof .

Stockenroth Castle and its lands were the seat of a horse breeding facility for the margraves until the beginning of the 19th century and, from 1791, after the abdication of the last margrave Christian Friedrich Karl Alexander , the Prussians .

At the end of the 17th century, with the help of the margrave bailiff Andreas Hösch, the castle played an essential role in the introduction of the potato as a food in Germany. The first potatoes probably came from Pilgramsreuth to Stockenroth in 1668 at the latest and were cultivated there in the fields.

The cartographer Johann Christoph Stierlein completed a very precise map of the castle area for the first time in 1816 with the existing inventory.

The plant today

The palace complex is only visible in the form of traces of the terrain. Trench systems are clearly recognizable.

literature

  • Josef Benker: The moated castle Stockenroth . In: Alt-Hof - local history supplement for the farm and the surrounding area . No. 35. Hof 1935. pp. 273–276.
  • Tilmann Breuer : District of Münchberg . The art monuments of Bavaria , brief inventories, XIII. Band . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1961, p. 47.
  • Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical monuments in Upper Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 5). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1955, pp. 127–128.
  • Hans Vollet, Kathrin Heckel: The ruins drawings of the Plassenburg cartographer Johann Christoph Stierlein . 1987.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Wandering woodcuts from 1523

Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 38.4 ″  N , 11 ° 49 ′ 9.5 ″  E