Ammerthal Castle

In 1587/88 Wolf Haller von Raitenbuch acquired the Oberammerthal and Altammerthal court brands from the Eschenbecks. In 1597 his son Kaspar Haller was registered as the owner. The Hofmarksschloß, built in 1590, initially had a defensive character with a curtain wall and key embrasures that are still visible under the roof. The castle is a high, two-story plastered solid building with a gable roof. It has a corner bay window on the northeast corner as well as gable gates and plastered banding.

In 1629 a gatekeeper is also mentioned who lived in the so-called “Torwächterhäusl” and had to monitor the archway that existed until 1946. Hanns Christoph Cronach, who had married Haller's daughter Sophie, took over the castle and the two court brands.

In 1750, Johann Franz Balthasar Freiherr von Grießenbeck von Grießenbach acquired both court stamps. He had the castle renovated and refurnished. In 1780 the castle passed to the Sulzbach court chamber councilor Christoph Josef Freiherr von Fick. In 1782, Christoph Josef von Fick had three marble coats of arms placed above the castle entrance, the top one shows the Ammerthal official seal, the bottom left is the coat of arms of the Ficks and the coat of arms of the Grießenbecks on the right.

The castle and village of Ammenthal were assigned to the Electoral Palatinate district court of Amberg, but this remained controversial. In 1832 the Hofmark was dissolved and the castle was managed by a tenant. On May 31, 1832, the last Ammerthal court lord, Rittmeister von Sturm, sold the castle to the carpenter Georg Prechtl from Lengenfelden. He sold it on

June 13, 1840 to Bader and Kramer Georg Goßner. From 1870 to 1901 his son Egid Goßner, also Bader and Kramer, is mentioned here. In 1936 the Goßner family was followed by the Lingl, Albersdorfer and Ehbauer families. The latter restored the castle in an exemplary manner in 1971.

Source: Excerpts from wikipedia.de

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Ammerthal Castle is a castle in the Oberammerthal district of the Upper Palatinate municipality of Ammerthal in the Amberg-Sulzbach district of Bavaria. It is registered as an architectural monument under monument number D-3-71-111-1 in the list of monuments of the municipality of Ammerthal.

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