Unterbruck Castle

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The listed castle Unterbruck is located in the district of the same name in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Kastl (near Kemnath) in the Tirschenreuth district (Unterbruck 15 and 19). In addition to the hammer lock described here, there was also another residence of the Prucker local nobility in Unterbruck , but it can no longer be precisely located (probably west of the Haidenaab ).

history

In Unterbruck (previously called Bruck bei Kastl ) there were two country estates. These were Leuchtenberg fiefdoms . According to the oldest fief book from before 1400, the local aristocrat Rüger Prukker and his siblings were awarded two farms, a Hermann Prukker received half of the fiefdom of Bruck and Fritz Oberndorfer of Mockersreuth the fiefdom of half the hammer in Bruck. Part of it was acquired in 1561 by Johann Prüschenk , chaplain and deacon of Kastl. After his death († 1575) a guardianship was appointed for his widow and until the manhood of her children. In 1589 Hans Christoph Prüschenk († 1594) received the property. He was followed by Hans Christoph Rupprecht , forester at Kulmain, who had married the Prüschenk's widow.

Another part of Unterbruck had been in the possession of Erhard Zolcher since 1570 , a former Landsknechthauptmann who had acquired the property from the heirs of Sebastian Kratzer . The Hammerstatt, which belongs to the estate, was owned by a Joseph Löneiß (i.e. on lease). The Hammerstatt remained with Christian Kratzer , one of Sebastian's sons , until 1561 . Because the hammer mill was half deserted , he wanted to build a grinding mill here in 1564, but this encountered resistance from other millers and could not be carried out. Erhard Zolcher received the sovereign permission from Count Palatine Ludwig in 1563 that he and his heirs were to be recognized as residents . After his death, his widow and his daughter and son-in-law Tobias von Pekofen were here , but they both died before their mother († 1603). The underage grandchildren had to sell the heavily indebted property to the forester Hans Christoph Rupprecht , who already owned the other part of Unterbruck. Even he could not hold the estate and sold it in 1619 to Hans Wilhelm Zellner zu Fischstein . Since he was not a Palatine nobleman, an objection was raised against the sale. So the estate came to Hans Wolf Mülffling (called Weiß), who was married to Dorothea von Hirschberg . After both deaths († 1637) the estate fell to their eldest son, Hans Philipp Müffling . However, this joined the Swedes and lost his property. In 1645 his son-in-law Christoph Berncloe sold the estate to Nikola de Quesnoy , district judge in Waldeck . In 1663 Andreas Friedrich von Quesnoy and his brother Franz took over the fiefdoms. In 1707 Georg Franz de Quesnoy sold it to Johann Christoph Ernst von Grafenreith . In 1709 Christoph Erdmann von Lindenfels was the owner of the estate. In 1724 Johann Adam Ernst von Hirschberg is the Landsasse here. Then there was a transfer of ownership to Leonhard Alexander von Zedtwitz . The widow Sophia Maria Theresia was born and widowed von Zedtwitz. In 1763 she sold the Ober- and Unterbruck estates, with the consent of the Leuchtenberg provost, to Georg Joseph von Rupprecht , parish priest in Kemnath , and Franz Joseph von Rupprecht auf Erasbach , government and rent chamber councilor in Amberg. After her death in 1782 the property fell to the nephew Franz de Paula von Rupprecht auf Erasbach . After his death, the estate passed to his son-in-law, Major à la suite Joseph von Weickmann .

Unterbruck Castle today

The former hammer lock is located near the Haidenaab and is a three-story solid building with a hipped roof , a Gothic bay window, sandstone reveals and bat dormers. The red and white striped shutters and the red reveals make the building very eye-catching. The core of the building was erected between 1503 and 1520. Extensions to the east took place in the second half of the 16th century.

An outbuilding belongs to the ensemble; This is a single-storey solid building with a gable roof and a mezzanine floor as well as a round arch portal that dates from the 17th century. The fence, a wall with ball-crowned gate pillars, from the 18th century has also been preserved.

literature

  • Ulrich Kinder: The fortifications in the Tirschenreuth district (=  work on the archeology of southern Germany . Volume 28 ). Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-933474-82-7 , pp. 233-234 .
  • Heribert Sturm: Kemnath. District judge Waldeck-Kemnath with sub-office Pressath . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Part Altbayern Heft 40). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7696-9902-5 , p. 64 ff .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oberbruck, today a district of Kulmain , also belonged to Bruck bei Kastl , where there were two residences, namely Bruck Castle in the pond and Bruck Castle on the tower .

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Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 27.1 ″  N , 11 ° 53 ′ 30.4 ″  E