Tucherschloss (Feucht)

Tucherschloss

The Tucherschloss is one of three preserved castles of the Nuremberg patriciate in Feucht , along with the Pfinzingschloss and the Zeidlerschloss . The castle has been privately owned since 1990 and was restored by the owner in the following years. In the building there is a restaurant (Schlosswirt), apartments and offices.

In 2007/2008, the Feucht market renovated a nearby garden, the so-called baroque garden, based on a historical plan from 1757.

history

The so-called Tucherschloss in Feucht was not built on farm land until the late 16th century. Herdegen IV. Tucher , born in 1533 , married to Katharina Pfinzing and, together with his brother Paul, head of the Tucher trading company since 1568, acquired Jörg Seckler's Zeidelgütlein in Feucht in 1586 . Only the modest small farm stable house stood on the property . The buyer built a mansion there . In view of the restrictive approval practice of the Nuremberg forest authorities, which generally did not allow any expansion of the building mass to protect the forest, Herdegen Tucher justified the particular size of the house with the allegedly damp building site, which does not allow the ground floor to be inhabited. He undertook to build the enclosures entirely solid and to always leave the ground floor unheated. According to the building permit in autumn 1590, the manor house was probably built in 1591/92.

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Tucherschloss with baroque garden, panoramic view, September 2013

The spatial structure, handed down from the 17th and 18th centuries, shows how little attention was paid to the conditions of the building permit from 1590. On the ground floor, not only storage and dining vaults were grouped around the house, but also a room and a lower kitchen. The lordship's living rooms, an upper kitchen, bedrooms, the office and the living room were on the first floor. The most representative rooms were on the second floor, where above all the hall, known as the “large dining room”, was furnished. Right from the start, the floors were accessed via a stair tower, which grants access to the respective Soller (forecourt). The first attic was at least partially expanded with maids' chambers as early as the 17th century.

Even before his death in 1614 at the age of 81, Herdegen Tucher had set up a family foundation, usually referred to in Nuremberg as an advancement, due to the lack of male descendants. The oldest descendant of his brother Paul was supposed to manage the foundation's assets. Only after the extinction of the Tucher family should the property have fallen to the Nuremberg Heilig-Geist-Spital . Until 1636 Anton IX administered. Tucher took over the manor house and in 1632 had to experience the devastation and looting of the manor house by imperial soldiers, during which the Voithaus also burned down. Then his brother Charles III followed. Tucher until 1646, briefly inherited by his cousin Anton X. The series of administrators was continued before 1648 by Thomas III. Tucher, 1657 by Stephan, 1689 by Georg Stephan the Elder Ä., 1732 by Johann Jakob Tucher, 1746 by Georg Stephan the Elder J., until 1777 from Carl Gottfried, until 1785 Georg Friedrich and after a temporary guardianship of Jakob Gottlieb Friedrich Tucher.

During this time, the Tucher family usually only used the Feuchter manor for summer stays. The Voit has probably lived on the ground floor since the destruction of the Voithaus in the Thirty Years War - in contrast to the agreements of 1590 . The Voit estate was rebuilt after the war, but has since been leased to a farmer. The appropriate setting for visits by the rulers was provided by an artistically designed “pleasure garden”, which was redesigned as a baroque garden in the course of the 18th century. There was also a gardener's house and a summer house with a summer hall and wintering. These two buildings, which are extremely valuable in terms of garden history, have been preserved in the immediate vicinity of the castle.

After the death of Jakob Gottlieb Friedrich Tucher in 1832, the heirs agreed to auction the seat against the highest bid. Only after several attempts did the Feuchter innkeeper Johann Pfann and the agricultural leaseholder Georg Böhm submit acceptable bids. After the purchase, the Tucher property was divided: while Böhm took over the agricultural estate, the castle fell to Johann Pfann, who in 1833 successfully applied for tavern inn justice for the property and thus established the tradition of the Nürnberger Hof inn. The four characteristic corner turrets are said to have been demolished during this time. Under his son Georg Pfann, the baroque gardens were largely destroyed by the construction of a stable around 1840. Around 1845 the property was sold to the brewer Johann Paulus Rückert. After the early death of the brewer, decades of rapid changes of ownership followed: bankruptcies, auctions and speculative purchases shaped this period. On these occasions, a large part of the associated land was also lost. It was not until the innkeeper Johann Heerdegen bought it in 1909 that a longer ownership tradition returned. The Heerdegen family was still running the Nürnberger Hof in the early 1980s. In 1990/91 the architect Fred Brunner acquired the now dilapidated manor house and with great dedication restored it in a manner appropriate to the monument.

In the summer of 2018, the property was offered for sale for three million euros.

literature

• Volker Alberti, Toni Boesch, Horst Holz: Castles and palaces in Altdorf and the surrounding area, Schwarzachtal - aristocratic residences in Franconia . Published by the Altdorf City Archives, Altdorf 2004, ISBN 3-9809311-0-2 , pp. 82–85.
• Wilhelm Schwemmer: Alt Feucht. From the history of a market town in the Lorenzer Reichswald . (= Series of publications of the Altnürnberger Landschaft, Volume 25). Verlag Korn und Berg, Nuremberg 1977, ISBN 3-87432-045-6 , pp. 41-47.
• Robert Giersch: History of construction and use of the Tucherschloss in Feucht near Nuremberg. Preliminary investigations on monument preservation in 1996 . Unpublished in the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (BLfD) .
• Helmut Wiegel: Schlossgarten Tucherschloss Feucht. Preliminary investigations on the preservation of garden monuments in 2005 . Unpublished in the BLfD.

Web links

Commons : Tucherschloss (Feucht)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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1. ↑ Feucht market, Tucherschloss
2. ↑ The detailed history of the castle was taken from: Herrensitze.com
3. ↑ nordbayern.de, Exclusive property: Tucherschloss in Feucht is being sold (accessed November 30, 2018)

Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 27.3 "  N , 11 ° 12 ′ 49.8"  E