Wolfring Castle

The listed Wolfring Castle is located in the district of the same name in the Upper Palatinate community of Fensterbach in the Schwandorf district of Bavaria (Schloßstraße 4).

history

At the beginning of the 12th century the noble Wolfringer family lived here . In the foundation letter of the Michelfeld monastery in 1119 Uuignandus , Vdelscalch and Uuirnt de Uuolferingen are mentioned. A Wirind de Wolfheringen and his sons are mentioned as a witness in a document from the Ensdorf monastery in 1139 . Local Chazpich de Wolfringe is a witness in 1147 when the Veste Hohenburg was donated to the Hochstift Regensburg in the case of the childless death of the Counts of Hohenburg . Conradus de wolfheringen appears as a witness in 1150 at a donation to the Reichenbach monastery . In 1165 a Walter von Wolfring also appears in a monastery note. Around 1200, a Fridericus de Wolferinge is the latter of his sex.

The Veste Wolfring has been one of the Upper Palatinate possessions of Duke Ludwig of Bavaria since 1205 . In the following period it was handed out as a fiefdom of the Wittelsbach family . In 1343 the Count Palatine Ruprecht I and Ruprecht II enfeoffed the Amberg victum knight Heinrich von Erkheim with goods in Wolfring. On January 28, 1413, Ruprecht Kastner , Landschreiber von Amberg, was enfeoffed with goods to Wolfring under inheritance law and given legal privileges. A son of the aforementioned Ruprecht, Caspar Kastner , calls himself Caspar von Wolfring in 1438 . Together with a relative of his wife Ursula Puchelperger named Albrecht Schirnting, he had to swear the Urfehde because of the prison he had suffered due to inheritance disputes. After further disputes, Hans Kastner became sole property of Wolfring and was able to sell the estate to Dietrich Lichtenecker in 1477 . In a reverse to Count Palatine Philipp , the enfeoffment with the veste and dwelling Wolffring gantz with the two courtyards belonging to dar and other possessions is confirmed. After the death of Dietrich Lichtenecker , the Mannlehen passed to his son Heinrich Lichtenecker in 1488 and again to his son Heinz Lichtenecker in 1518 .

In 1545 Wolf von Plankenfels was enfeoffed with Wolfering by Count Palatine Friedrich . At the beginning of the 60s of the 16th century, the Plankenfelser sold Wolfring to Melchior von Salhausen , who was first entered in the Landsassen register with Wolfring in 1563 . However, Wolfring was enfeoffed only in 1577 after he had agreed to take over all of the property that Plankenfelder had bought. This Melchior seems to be disobedient to the Count Palatine, so that it was considered to withdraw the property from him, but it then came to Georg von Salhausen and soon afterwards to Hans Jakob von Salhausen . He sold the property to Hans Fuchs , who was enfeoffed with it in 1604. Since a Jakob Fuchs was already designated as a pledgee of Wolfring in 1599, this sale was not made voluntarily. Valentin Fuchs von Dornheim , Bamberg councilor, bought Wolfring in 1605. After his death († 1630) Wolfring fell to his four sons, Valentin Christoph , Wolf Philipp , Philipp Julius and Veit Christoph . The first three brothers named died during the Thirty Years' War . Veit Christoph Fuchs has neither reported the deaths nor sought a loan. In addition, his whereabouts were not known and he did not take care of the neglected property that had been on the Gant since 1631 . In 1650 the feudal provost of Amberg declared the fief to have fallen back . Under pressure from the creditors, a proclamation with an auction offer was published on May 10, 1651 . After two attempts, Hanns Ulrich Kympel , Chancellor of Amberg, was able to bid for the property. Objections by Veit Christoph Fuchs and his sister Amalia Regina von Murach to the sale remained ineffective. On March 21, 1653, Kympel received Wolfring from Elector Ferdinand Maria as a continuous fiefdom. Hanns Ulrich Kympel died on August 17, 1653 and so Wolfring fell to his widow and daughters and their husbands, Hans Georg Brodeis and Adam Seiz .

In 1708 the two parts of the estate were in the hands of Johann Engelhard Seiz and his brother Raimund (heir of the Kympel part) or in the possession of Joachim Freiherrn von Lichtenau (heir of the Brodeis part). They concluded a contingent purchase with Franz Heinrich von Podewil , which became legally binding on August 4, 1708 through imperial ratification. Wolfring remained in the possession of this family until 1756. Then Casimir von Podewils sold the estate to Wolfgang Albrecht Freiherrn von Schönstätt († 1760). The widow Maria Theresia von Schönstätt as well as Count von Kreuth and Christian Wilhelm von Hoppe took over the guardianship of his underage children, Maria Eva Rosina , Maria Anna and another younger brother . Georg Ignati Kern acted as court administrator . After reaching the age of majority, the siblings agreed that the unmarried Maria Eva Rosina von Schönstätt should take over the estate for a sum of money. After she died childless in 1770, Wolfring fell back to Carl Theodor and Maria Eva, widowed von Podewils . Maria Eva bequeathed her share in 1772 to her daughter Maria Eleonora Freiin von Podewils zu Stein , who in the same year sold her share to Carl Theodor Freyherrn von Schönstätt .

This could perceive the lower jurisdiction for Wolfering until 1827 . Then these court rights were withdrawn because the said Freyherr had not been recognized as a Landsasse, nor had he ever been able to identify himself over the legal acquisition of the Landsassenfreyheit regardless of repeated requests . Then Wolfring came to Karl von Coulon from 1923 . The current owner is Carl Graf von und zu Eltz .

The 1818 founded municipality Wolfring was 1971 Dürnsricht to the municipality Fensterbach united .

Wolfring Castle then and now

The construction of the current Wolfring Castle goes back to Melchior von Salhausen . According to an inscription in the hallway of the castle, the building was completed in 1570. At this point there was probably a previous building from the high Middle Ages . Later owners only made minor changes so that the castle is still original today.

The castle is a mighty three-storey building made of sandstone blocks with a steep hipped roof . A series of small windows can be seen on the top floor. The complex includes an estate with the former forester's house (1792), the former horse stable (1793) and a farm wing with servants' apartments (1845). The castle enclosure consists mainly of plastered ashlar masonry with gate pillars, an archway and a northern gatehouse from the 18th and 19th centuries. Immediately next to the castle is the Church of St. Michael, which dates from the beginning of the 16th century.

literature

Elisabeth Müller-Luckner: Nabburg (pp. 281-289). (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern booklet 50). Commission for Bavarian State History, Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7696-9915-7 .