Witzlasreuth Castle

The former Witzlasreuth Castle was located in the Witzlasreuth district of the Upper Palatinate municipality of Kulmain in the Tirschenreuth district of Bavaria . Archaeological findings as well as finds from the early modern period in the area of the former castle and country estate Witzlasreuth are protected as monuments .

history

1504 Witzlasreuth was acquired by Jakob Löhneysen and his wife Margarete von Frankenreuth . The Witzlasreuth estate belonged to the Kemnath caste office in 1519 and was a fief of the Murach family .

Witzlasreuth emerged as a country estate when Rochus Löneiß (also spelled LönEysen , Löhneysen or Löneisen ) took over the property ex officio with the participation of the district judge and caretaker von Waldeck and with the consent of the widow and the guardians of the children of his brother Hieronymus . He was first entered in the land register in 1563, then again in 1566 and 1570. From him the manor passed to his two sons Hans Wolf and Georg Engelhard Löneiß . Georg Engelhard von Löhneysen , born in Witzlasreuth in 1552, became the Brunswick miner in 1589. His brother Hans Wolf Löneiß acquired his share in Witzlasreuth , so that the whole estate was again in one hand. Hans Wolf Löneiß died on April 21, 1614 and left behind his widow Barbara six underage children. Hans Siegmund von Hirschberg and Hans David Dietz on Fuchsendorf acted as their guardians . In 1626, the canon of Gandersheim Michael Büttner and Ursula Löhneysen were married in Witzlasreuth Castle , from whose direct descendants the future Prince Otto von Bismarck emerged .

After the Upper Palatinate was incorporated into the Electorate of Bavaria , the Löneiß family had to fear expulsion because of their religious affiliation. For the change of religion Barbara von Löneiß received an extension of the deadline until March 1629. However, her son-in-law Hans Friedrich Steinhauser soon became Landsasse and remained so after the Thirty Years' War . In 1652 he paid homage again. He was the son of Egid Steinhauser , who had lived at Grötschenreut and Frauenberg, and had married the youngest daughter of Hans Wolf Löneiß , Katharina Magdalena . With her he had converted to Catholicism in 1628. One of the two daughters married Jakob Schreyer , who was then matriculated as successor at Witzlasreuth in 1673 and 1696. In 1707 he left his property to his son Johan Mathias Schreyer von Blumenthal . After this, Johann Sebastian Steinhauser in 1725 and his widow in 1734 are named as landowners.

This is followed by Herrmann Friedrich von Frichtern in 1747 and Johann Eder von Bernfeld in 1763 , colonel and later general and fortress commander of Amberg . The widow of the latter sold the estate to Johann Isaak Freiherrn von Eberts in 1780 . However, the validity of the sales contract resulted in a long-term process through all instances that only ended in 1800. Due to a comparison with the Ebert'sche heirs, Johann Thomas Röthel received the country estate on the Kaufweg on April 20, 1803 . After his death on July 13, 1808, the estate was designated as an allod by his heirs , but without being able to prove this.

The estate was bought by Major Bernhard von Hirschberg in 1839 . His attempt to acquire jurisdiction here was rejected because in the normal year 1806 the owner at that time could not produce a sovereign award document. This means that the patrimonial jurisdiction has already passed to the state. The village of Witzelsreut belonged to the municipality of Oberwappenöst, in 1946 this previously independent municipality was incorporated into Kulmain.

literature

Heribert Sturm: Kemnath. District judge's office Waldeck-Kemnath with sub-office Pressath (p. 173ff). (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern issue 40). Commission for Bavarian State History, Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7696-9902-5 .

Individual evidence

Web links

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[1] List of listed objects in Kulmain

[2] History of Kulmain- Witzlasreuth

[3] Volkmar Hellfritzsch: Difficult family names on ice (en) in Saxony and Bavaria