Weihern Castle

The lost Weihern Castle was located in the district of the same name in the Upper Palatinate town of Pfreimd in the Schwandorf district of Bavaria .

Center Weihern (2016)

history

Weihern is mentioned in the registers of the Diocese of Regensburg from 1326. The court rulership of the same name is likely to have arisen towards the end of the 15th century. The free own Good ponds belonged to the early 16th century the Lords of stone. On September 9, 1528 Mathes von Stein , son of Wilhelm von Stein , sold his goods in ponds to Georg von Prandt , a carer in Burgtreswitz . The agreement was signed by Alexander Notthafft , Jobst of Tandorf and Utz of Lichteneck testified. Georg von Prandt was a Leuchtenberg fief because of his enfeoffment with stone from 1524 .

In 1534 a serious argument broke out between him and Landgrave Georg von Leuchtenberg : on the rumor that the judge from Pfreimd would come to Weihern and dispute him for the guaranteed parish fair protection, Georg von Prandt allied himself with Wolf on Margaret Day and thus parish fair Sazenhofer of Fuchsberg , nurse of Tännesberg , and Melchior foam Buhler of Trausnitz and recruited many horsemen on. At Vespers, he blew eight armed horses, eight armored lancers and 14 riflemen on the people celebrating in front of the church. Among them was the Leuchtenberg judge von Pfreimd, Hofrat Sebastian Mertz , who was unarmed among the spectators and dancers. When he wanted to go to the church to seek protection, some hidden loyalists of Georg von Prandt stormed out from there and caused a slaughter among those present. This also was Sebastian Mertz so strongly wounded that he died the next day; Georg Mayer von Kötschdorf , Ulrich Wismuth von Pfreimd and Contz Niepauer von Oberpfreimd also died on the square . Mathias Seidl , citizen and locksmith zu Pfreimd, and Georg Weber , weaver in Weihern, were shot to cripples , which brought them and their families to begging. This outrage had consequences: The district judge of Nabburg wanted to have Georg von Prandt arrested immediately , and in 1535 the landgrave also issued a verdict against Prandt. However, this was protected by Count Palatine Friedrich and so he managed to get a revision by the imperial court in Speyer. Another attempted agreement with the landgrave he refused, so that the dispute between the two parties continued. On March 16, 1541, Prandt was able to receive a letter of protection and safe conduct for himself and his family from Emperor Charles V , who was staying in Regensburg . However, he did not personally dare to appear before the landgrave councilors on June 20, 1542, but instead sent his wife Margaretha there to present a four-dimensional copy of the imperial letter of safe conduct. Further attempts to reach an agreement were also unsuccessful and both parties continued to contest legal claims and appeals. He even never paid the fines due to his victims. Only under his successor, Veit Hans von Prandt , was it possible to reach a compromise with Landgrave Ludwig Heinrich von Leuchtenberg on January 6, 1556, although fines were excluded. Weihern could be kept in the family until 1621 under another two Prandts with the same name.

On April 5, 1621, the estate passed to Hans Singer . Since he died in the same year, Weihern came to a community of heirs and then from 1634 to the Protestant Hans Albrecht Singer as the sole heir. During the re-catholicization of the Upper Palatinate, complaints arose that he was still here with his wife, a born Schott , despite the expiry of the emigration date . In later registers of the landed people he is shown as a Catholic . As a result of the Thirty Years' War , the estate came to the Gant and the estate was auctioned by Hans Albrecht Schott , probably a nephew. In 1668 he gave up his duty, whereby the keeper of Nabburg was instructed to ensure that Schott, who was devoted to the Lutheran religion, did not stay on his estate for more than twice a year for six weeks. Hans Albrecht Schott was stabbed to death by Captain Funk in 1673 and the estate was passed on to his sister Margaretha Susanne or her husband, Christoph von Voith . After the death of her husband, Margaretha Susanne sold the estate in 1691 to the chamberlain and lieutenant colonel Marquard von Leopard , who had also acquired the neighboring Höflarn . The Leopards were, however, a relatively poor family and so Maria Ursula Kunigunde was allowed by Leopard after the death of her husband to transfer part of her Hofmarksubertanen. In 1716 she came back again because of the reduction of the knight tax. Since this request could not be completed quickly, the owner decided in 1719 to sell the Hofmark . So the property came to Johann Georg Franz von Wildenau , who, by the way, could not solve the inconsistencies because of the subjects belonging to the ponds. His heir Max Philipp Franz von Wildenau held the estate until 1739. Then he sold the estate to the powder maker Franz Friedrich Hann , who was raised to the imperial nobility by Emperor Franz . He was followed in 1761 by his two sons Anton Ignatz and Franz Benno . In 1764, Franz Benno Hann , forester in a coat , became the sole owner. In 1779 he applied to build an office building for himself in Weihern so that he could hold a servant there. The landowner died without a decision being made. In his will he had ordered the sale of his goods to the highest bidder. However, his heirs agreed that Joseph should receive von Hann Weihern against payment of a certain sum and assumption of all mortgages. This was confirmed by the government in Amberg on June 12, 1789. However, since he was unable to cope with the payment obligations he had made, he decided to sell the property in 1791. The buyer was the Kur-Trier treasurer and captain Carl Franz von Murach at Woppenhof . This could be immitted on ponds in the same year. His attempt to call himself von Weihern and Saltendorf was rejected because Saltendorf was only a pertinence of Weihern and not an independent Hofmark.

At the turn of the 19th century, Freiherr von Murach sold ponds to Count von Buttler , who was already the owner of Hofmark Stein . Shortly afterwards, he ceded Weihern to Freiherr von Duprel , royal chamberlain and rent clerk at Amberg. In 1809 he was able to apply for the resignation of the compulsory Landsassen. A second class patrimonial court was established by the Duprel heirs . After a settlement with the heirs, Weihern passed to the state in 1830 and the subjects were committed to the Nabburg district court on November 9, 1830. By government decree of December 22, 1971, the previously independent municipality of Weihern was dissolved with effect from January 1, 1971 and incorporated into the town of Pfreimd.

literature

Elisabeth Müller-Luckner: Nabburg (pp. 266–275). (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern booklet 50). Commission for Bavarian State History, Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7696-9915-7 .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Weihern - Collection of images, videos and audio files

House book of ponds

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