Vilseck Castle

Vilseck care lock

The Vilseck Castle , also Pflegschloss Vilseck called, is a castle in the Upper Palatinate town of Vilseck in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach of Bavaria . The former nursing home is located at Herrengasse 8 in Vilseck.

history

When the construction of a city wall began in Vilseck in 1332, the already existing castle property was included, although it was not subordinate to the city, but was a free property, of which the owners did not have to pay any taxes to the city and not even to the city court was subject.

In 1375 the Vilsecker built the Vilstor next to the Burgguthof, later also called Weihertor. The street ran through this city gate from Auerbach to the former Obertor, later also known as the “Black Gate”, and on to the Schnappaufbrücke. During the Hussite Wars , the Bamberg Bishop Friedrich von Aufseß , at that time Vilseck belonged to the Bamberg Monastery, had the town pond built in 1430/39 and made part of the town fortifications. The path from Auerbach now led in a flat arc around the pond to the Vilstor. The old driveway was abolished in 1466 after the bird tower was built and led directly to the “bird tower” at a newly built mill, the old pond tower was walled up. It became a tower of the city fortifications, in which powder was later stored, hence the name "Powder Tower".

At the end of the 17th century, the Bamberg bishop approved the relocation of the nursing home from Dagestein Castle to the city of Vilseck. For this purpose, a new building was erected on the free space on the city wall next to the walled-up Vilstor. The Burgguthof was also bought and in 1765 converted into an apartment for the highest officials ( Oberamtmann ) in Vilseck. After the caretaker had moved, the name Herrengasse became common for the former Vilsgasse and the name “Pflegehof” or “Pflegeschloss” for the new building. At the end of the 18th century, a passage through the city wall was created next to the tower; he offered the citizens the opportunity to get to the Weiherdamm via a short route.

Passage through Herrengasse

After the Bamberg office of Vileck was transferred to the State of Bavaria in 1803 and the last senior bailiff died on June 2, 1803, the nursing home was auctioned. The pharmacist Josef List bought it in 1836 and set up a pharmacy in the old Vilstor. After the pharmacy closed in 1950 and a few changes of ownership, the Großer-Angerer family acquired the complex for a hotel extension. The conversion to a tower hotel was completed with some delay on September 20, 1985. In 2017, the use as a hotel was ended and the hotel-specific fittings were dismantled and the building complex was converted into apartments or a conference room.

Construction

The building ensemble consists of the five-storey gate tower, which is made of plastered quarry stone masonry. An outside staircase with iron railings leads to the first floor. The entrance and windows are ogival. The second floor has two simple windows, the third only one window. The fourth floor is separated from the third by a cornice and receives daylight through two screens. the tower is covered with a pyramid roof, on the north side of the tower there is a coat of arms of the bishopric of Bamberg and the bishop Lamprecht von Brunn from 1375. The conclusion is a weather vane , which was installed in place of a lightning rod that was previously installed . There is a cellar room on the ground floor, two sandstone pillars carry the platform to the former pharmacy entrance. This component is made of limestone with strong corner blocks.

Coat of arms stone of Lamprecht von Brunn, Prince-Bishop of the Bamberg Monastery

The former castle manor house is attached to the tower (from 1745 and until 1802 the official seat of the Hochstiftisch Bamberg caretaker). This is a three-storey, two-wing, plastered solid building with a gable roof and a plaster structure that was renewed after 1740. A large entrance gate provides access to this part of the building.

literature

• Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district . Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1991, pp. 232-234.

Web links

Commons : Vilstor (Vilseck)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on the care castle, care yard, castle manor house Vilseck in the private database "All castles".
• Vilseck care lock homepage , accessed on June 28, 2020.
• Kissed awake - old care lock rebuilt - lock cellar for rent , Oberpäflzer weekly newspaper from April 10, 2018, accessed on June 28, 2020.
• Vilseck on aerial photo Laumer, accessed on June 25, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Silvia Codreanu-Windauer , Uta Kirpal, Gabriele Raßhofer (eds.): Amberg and the Lamd an Naab and Vils, p. 110. Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1877-3 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 45.8 ″  N , 11 ° 48 ′ 24 ″  E