Weißenberg Castle (Edelsfeld)

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The White Mountain Castle is a abgegangenes Castle in the village of White Mountain the Upper Palatinate municipality Edelsfeld in Amberg-Sulzbach of Bavaria .

history

In the Bavarian Salbuch of 1224 the villa Weizzenberch is mentioned as the property of the imperial ministers of Breitenstein near Königstein . In the second Duke cultivation of Wittelsbachs of 1280/85 is the bambergischen Official Weissenberg Vilseck assigned. The Hofmark was then a fiefdom of the Bamberg Monastery .

The lords of Weißenberg have been proven to be fiefdoms since the 15th century. In 1573 an heir to Ernst Weißenberger still pays hereditary homage . Shortly thereafter, the Hofmark passed into the hands of Hans Jörg von Wildenstein , who then sold it to his brother-in-law, Hans Friedrich von Freudenberg . In 1602 he sent the Hofmark to the Bishop of Bamberg in favor of his brother-in-law, d. H. he canceled the previous fiefdom for himself. In 1705 David Thun von Thunberg is named as the successor to the Lords of Freudenberg. At the end of the 18th century, the barons of Grafenreuth have been handed down as owners. In 1809 the Hofmark is owned by Baron von Podevils zu Wildenreuth.

On June 30, 1818 Weißenberg is a municipality in the Sulzbach district court , which is incorporated into Edelsfeld on July 1, 1972.

Construction

The former castle is now a farm (Weißenberg 24). It is a two-storey, plastered solid building with a gable roof , the core of which is probably medieval. According to the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation , archaeological findings from the Middle Ages and early modern times have been secured in the area of ​​the former Hofmarkschloss Weißenberg, based on which it can be assumed that a medieval castle previously stood here.

literature

  • Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district . Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1991, pp. 137–140.
  • Sixtus Lampl : Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments: Volume III. Upper Palatinate. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (Ed.), Munich 1985.
  • Max Piendl: Duchy of Sulzbach, District Judge Sulzbach . (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Altbayern Series I, Issue 10). Commission for Bavarian State History. Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1957, p. 70f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ send in the Early High German Dictionary, accessed on July 2, 2020.
  2. ↑ Picture of the building in the article Looking for the water veins Mittelbayerische Zeitung from August 14, 2015, accessed on July 4, 2020.
  3. ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments: Monuments of the community of Edelsfeld, monument number D-3-6436-0102, accessed on July 4, 2020.

Coordinates: 49 ° 34 ′ 38.5 "  N , 11 ° 43 ′ 34"  E