Weichs Castle

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Weichs Castle today
Weichs castle and brewery around 1700. Copper engraving by Michael Wening

The Weichs Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Weichser Schlossgasse 11a in the district Weichs the city of Regensburg ( Bayern ).

history

The former Niederungsburg was built by the knights of Weichs. It was first mentioned in 1220. The early owners were the Weichser von Traubling (1151).

In 1280, with Otto the Illustrious, the Bavarian dukes came into possession of Weichs. In the following period they pledged the castle and Hofmark to rich Regensburg patrician families , such as the Gumprecht , Auf der Hayde (1345), Sittauer , Thundorfer (1358) and Heinrich von Amman (1409) families . After 1500 the Bohemian Counts von Guttenstein appear at the castle . Heinrich von Guttenstein had the castle surrounded with a moat and wall in 1516. They were followed by the Lords of Plittersdorf , who sold the property to the Niedermünster monastery for 4,300 guilders . In 1601, Weichs Castle was returned to the later Electorate of Bavaria . The castle was expanded into a strongly fortified four-wing complex from the Renaissance period and received a stepped gable extension. In the Baroque period, the castle chapel, which was later profaned, was given a bell tower. Duke and Elector Maximilian I set up a brewery for white beer at the castle, the production of which was a privilege of the sovereign at the time. The elongated brewery building survived floods and ice. In 1630 the castle became the seat of the nursing office .

In the summer of 1634, the castle was badly damaged during the fighting for Regensburg in the Thirty Years' War and then rebuilt. In 1704 in the War of the Spanish Succession and in 1737 in the War of the Austrian Succession , Weichs Castle was occupied by French and Bavarian troops and used as their headquarters. In 1799 the Bavarian state dissolved the castle estate.

In 1801 Clemens Freiherr von Weichs was buried in the Jesuit crypt in Amberg . Today the castle is privately owned and used for holiday apartments and holiday apartments.

building

The castle is a three-storey four-wing complex with gable roofs, stepped gables, bay windows and roof turrets with onion dome. The complex is late Gothic and Renaissance, 16th century, in the core perhaps older, alterations 17th / 18th. Century, partially modernized. The remains of the castle wall with shell towers made of quarry stone are probably preserved . On the north side there are probably late medieval remains of the moat and the lining wall made of quarry stone.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Bauer: Regensburg Art, Culture and Everyday History . 6th edition. MZ-Buchverlag in H. Gietl Verlag & Publication Service GmbH, Regenstauf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4 , p. 752 .

literature

  • Wolfram Hübner: Weichs Castle in Regensburg - an often overlooked monument . Preservation of monuments in Regensburg, Volume 14; HRSG, City of Regensburg, Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7917-2708-0 , pp. 56-76.
  • Andreas Boos : Castles in the south of the Upper Palatinate - the early and high medieval fortifications of the Regensburg area . Universitätsverlag Regensburg, Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3-930480-03-4 , pp. 399-403.
  • Georg Dehio : Bavaria V: Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate - Handbook of German art monuments . Drexler Jolanda, Hubel Achim (arrangement), Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1991.

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 23.2 "  N , 12 ° 6 ′ 58.7"  E