Schloss Neidstein

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Schloss Neidstein (german for Envy stone) castle is located in the Oberpfalz and belongs to the municipality Etzel Wang. It was the seat of a Hofmark judge in the county in Sulzbach Sulzbach Herzogtum. The castle with its 165 hectares of forest and meadows is now part of the Schergenbuck reserve.

building

Above the castle on the top of the mountain, is located a castle ruin, of which only small remnants are present: the former castle Schloss Neidstein. The New Castle - an elongated tract with the east gate and a round tower in the West - was designed by Jobst of fire (t) was established and 1513 completed.

Today's appearance, especially the Season Gable, the castle owes its current appearance to a transformation from 1855 to 1860. The relief with the themes of the Old Testament, which is on a wall of the castle are derived by Georg Schweiger (17th century) from Amberg.

Library and Archives

Until the 16th Century it was a Archive castle, consisting of domination and Gutsarchiv and the family archives (in total approximately 17 linear meters), located since early July 2006 as adepositin Staatsarchiv Amberg; it was not yet publicly available. 1796 will be in a passage of large parts of the French horses were vorgestreut.

About the whereabouts of the precious Library Castle was not known before in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung(28 October 2006, p. 48) has been announced that a first swing schöngeistiger books in Munich at Hartung & Hartung in the auctions of 7 to 9 November 2006 come up for sale after completion of the auction appeared after a short time some of these books in the online offerings of bookstores on, has now been called in part a sum of three times the amount of progress at the auction price. As can be safely applied to the envy stone library as a whole is lost.