Waldau Castle (Vohenstrauss)

Waldau Castle

The Waldau Castle is the successor building to Burg Waldau in Waldau , a district of Vohenstrauß in the Upper Palatinate . The castle became dilapidated in the second half of the 17th century, so that the castle building with today's address Roggensteiner Straße 8 was built below it. The castle and palace ensemble forms a listed area under the number D-3-74-162-123.

history

The Waldau family has been known since the early 13th century. An Ulricus de Waldauwe is the first to appear as a witness in a contract that was signed on January 13, 1224 between Duke Ludwig I of Bavaria and the convent . After a checkered history and the extinction of the local Waldauer , the manor came to the Wirsberger and in 1632 to the Palatinate . Elector Ferdinand Maria von Bayern lent the estate to Field Marshal Adrian Freiherr von Enkevort in 1652 . The Enckevort family were wealthy here until 1681. The son Ferdinand Franz Leopold von Enkevort sold the estate to Franz Ferdinand von Rummel in 1681 .

After parts of the castle had become dilapidated, the new castle, which also contained a castle chapel , was built in the second half of the 17th century under the Barons von Rummel . In a second step, a castle wing was added at a right angle, which corresponds to the current building. A 1000 paces long corridor leads from the castle into the open air, but the entrances are now closed.

In 1717, K (C) arl Johann Freiherr von Rummel and his wife Rosina Dorothea, b. Freiin von Podewils two altars for the newly built Johannes-von-Nepomuk-Kirche . The Rummels remained in the possession of Waldau until 1796. Due to over-indebtedness, the state had to take over Waldau, but was able to sell the property to the Barons of Lilien in 1810 . The buyer, Hermann Caspar von Lilien , received a first class patrimonial court over the 130 landowners who owned the property . In 1820 it was converted into a second class patrimonial court because no trained lawyer was employed. In 1832 jurisdiction was transferred to the Vohenstrauß state court. In 1837 King Ludwig of Bavaria enfeoffed the royal chamberlains Franz Anton Freiherr von Lilien and Karl Joseph Freiherr von Lilien with the male and successive female knights' feuds in Waldau; the same took place in 1841 for Johann Maria Joseph Sigmund Maximilian Josef and Ernst Joseph Freiherren von Lilien . In 1848 another Hans von Lilien is mentioned here .

In 1879 Leopold Engelmann from Weiden in the Upper Palatinate and the inn owner Windl from Mitterteich acquired the castle estate. In 1881 the Minerow Economic Council bought this property. The Minnerow monument, which is located in a small wood 200 meters northeast of Waldau in a corn field and is therefore hardly accessible, still reminds of this economic council. The marble slab reads : “In memory of my beloved father, Mr. Felix Franz Minnerow kgl. Baijr. Oekonomierath u. Laird of Waldau Castle. Baroness Marie von Imhoff 1890 ”. In 2015, on the 125th birthday of Minerow, Waldauer wanted to find a more suitable place for the memorial stone. It belongs to the von Heemskerck family, but they strictly refuse to implement it. Minerow's heir, Marie, married a Baron von Imhof , and the estate came into his possession. In 1901 Theodor Jacobs from Wiesbaden became the owner. After him the estate came to the porcelain manufacturer Johann Seltmann until 1937 . The von Heemskerck family has owned the castle since 1938 . They also continued to run the Waldau Castle Brewery.

Founding board of the Upper Palatinate Association on the castle wall of Waldau Castle

Maria-Ingeborg von Heemskerck (* October 10, 1938 - May 2, 2018) was involved in the founding of the Upper Palatinate Association on March 14, 1970.

Group of figures in front of Waldau Castle

building

The castle is located below Waldau Castle, it is a three-storey hipped roof building with dormers , with a transverse gable to the northeast and a centrally located gate passage; the side wing is delimited by a stepped gable . Between the former palas of the castle and the new castle there is a hipped and flat saddle roof building over an angular floor plan, which probably dates from the 17th / 18th centuries. Century, but was built over an older core. Part of the wall and moat that led around the castle was converted into an English garden. A staircase with baroque railing posts from the 17th / 18th century leads to the west of the castle. Century to the castle. Further to the west is the subsidiary church of Johannes von Nepomuk . In front of the castle building there is a statue of John of Nepomuk from the 18th century, which shows the alliance coat of arms of the Rummels and the Podewils in the base .

Waldau Castle Brewery

In Waldau there was also the Waldau Castle Brewery, which "is probably the oldest in the area". Already in 1740 there is talk of a wheat beer wear to Tirschenreuth . In the original cadastre from 1843 there is a “Bräuhaus with real brewery and brandy distillery” under number 63. It was right by the castle pond. House 60 was a "tavern and malt house with real tavern innkeeper and butcher and mulz justice". The brewery remained undamaged in the fire of 1843, but between 1843 and the beginning of the 20th century the brewery was rebuilt on the site of number 60. In November 1884, Franz Felix Minnerow installed a steam boiler in the brewery. In 1902 the Freiherr von Imhoffsche Dampfbierbrauerei is mentioned, in 1925 this is the castle brewery Johann Seltmann , in 1932 the castle brewery Anna Seltmann and in 1936 the castle brewery Johann Seltmann . From 1940 the castle brewery Peter von Heemskerck Waldau is here , then in 1956 the castle brewery Annemarie von Heemskerck , 1972 the castle brewery A. von Heemskerck and 1974 the castle brewery Peter von Heemskerck . In the summer of 1993 the building was demolished when the village square was being renovated.

literature

City of Vohenstrauß (Ed.): Vohenstrauß through the ages: local history on the history of the city on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of its first mention 1378–1978. Vohenstrauß 1978, pp. 58-63.