Wenceslas Castle

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overall view
Gate on the south side (1994)

The Wenzelschloss (also: Burg Lauf ) is a former imperial residence on an island in the Pegnitz in the Franconian town of Lauf an der Pegnitz in the district of Nürnberger Land .

history

In the 12th and 13th centuries, Lauf was an imperial estate of the Staufer and was held by the Laufer Reichsministeriale .

The castle came to the Wittelsbach family before 1275 , before it was destroyed in 1301.

In 1353, the later Emperor Charles IV (who was baptized in the name of the Bohemian national saint Wenzel ) acquired the Upper Palatinate and areas on the Pegnitz and thus also Lauf. The emperor combined the vast areas on the Pegnitz to form New Bohemia ( countries of the Bohemian Crown ).

From 1356 the emperor had a new building carried out on the site of the destroyed predecessor castle, which represented the last overnight accommodation on "New Bohemian" soil before moving into the imperial city of Nuremberg. Particularly impressive is the coat of arms hall in the east wing, which was built around 1360 and presumably served the emperor as a bedroom and is decorated with 112 carved coats of arms and two keystones of the ribbed vault.

In 1373 the castle, which had not yet been completely finished, came back to the Wittelsbach family .

In 1504 the castle came to the people of Nuremberg, who carried out renovations in 1525–1527, 1579, 1649, 1679 and 1736. In the 17th century the gate tower at the main entrance to the castle was decorated with the Bohemian coat of arms and a statue of St. Wenceslas.

today

From 1985 to 2013 the castle was used by the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts as a Lauf branch. A comprehensive restoration took place during this time. The castle is currently empty, but it can be booked for weddings and some of it can be viewed as part of the city tours.

  • Keep (residential tower) on the west side (1994)

  • Palas on the east side (1994)

  • Round tower on the east side (1994)

literature

  • Volker Alberti, Lorenz Baumann, Horst Holz: Castles and palaces in Lauf and the surrounding area. Lower Pegnitztal ( Franconian aristocratic seats , 2). Simmelsdorf-Hüttenbach, 1999.
  • Castle Lauf a. d. Pegnitz: A building by Emperor Charles IV. (Wartburg Society for Research into Castles and Palaces e.V .: Research on Castles and Palaces, Special Volume 2); Regensburg 2006, ISBN 3-7954-1824-0 .
  • Robert Giersch, Andreas Schlunk, Berthold Frhr. von Haller: Castles and mansions in the Nuremberg countryside - a historical handbook based on preliminary work by Dr. Gustav Voit. Self-published by the Altnürnberger Landschaft e. V., Lauf an der Pegnitz 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020677-1 .
  • Klaus Leidorf, Peter Ettel, Walter Irlinger, Joachim Zeune: Castles in Bavaria. 7000 years of castle history in the air ; Theiss: Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-8062-1364-X .
  • Hans-Günter Richardi : Castles in Bavaria. A romantic guide. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1973, pp. 110–112, ISBN 3-7991-5731-X .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Lauf ad Pegnitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Exhibition of Charles IV. Accessed on July 15, 2016
  2. ↑ Laufer weir system: Castle in the origin, castle in the vernacular . ( nordbayern.de [accessed on April 12, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Who will buy the Imperial Castle?  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / n-land.de  

Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 36 ″  N , 11 ° 16 ′ 55.6 ″  E