The Castle Henfenfeld , even Pfinzingschloss called, is a hilltop castle in Henfenfeld in Nuremberg County , which built around 1200 in the late Middle Ages various seat Reichsministerialer was until 1530 in the possession of the Pfinzings Henfenfeld came. The buildings of the well-preserved property, which has been privately owned again since 1983, have largely retained their appearance from the 16th century, while the landscape garden is a supraregional example of horticultural art from the early 19th century. Henfenfeld Castle should not be confused with the Pfinzing Castle in damp.

History

Feudalism

The castle was built around 1200 and was initially owned by the von Henfenfeld family of ministers. In the late 14th and early 15th centuries, the castle changed hands frequently until it went to the Lords of Egloffstein from 1405 to 1530 .

In 1530 Martin I. Pfinzing acquired the castle. It passed into the possession of an old Nuremberg patrician family , after whom it is occasionally called Pfinzingschloss up to the present day . At the beginning of their manorial rule, Henfenfeld was also destroyed by the Second Margrave War and, like many other facilities in Central Franconia, was burned down in 1553 when margrave troops invaded, whose partisan Hans von Egloffstein saw himself being robbed by the Pfinzings. The most famous family representative and lord of the castle was Paul Pfinzing (1554–1599). The Pfinzing von Henfenfeld brought the castle into a family foundation (in the Nuremberg patriciateCalled advance transfer ), which was administered by the family elder. They remained the lords of the castle until the main branch of the family died out in 1764, after which the administration fell to the widow's brothers, a born Haller von Hallerstein .

Aristocratic-bourgeois hybrid

The Nuremberg merchant Karl Benedikt Schwarz acquired the manor in 1817, after which the Bavarian king ennobled him to exercise it. He administered his goods in a newly established family foundation , "whose property rights only expired with the legal repeal of the entails in 1919." The foundation goods were then between the brothers Paul August Benedikt von Schwarz, who received Artelshofen , and Benedikt Gottlieb, who took over Henfenfeld , divided up. In the 135 years that the Schwarz Herren family was at Henfenfeld, the property was renovated and redesigned many times, especially between 1826 and 1838, so that the baroque garden became a contemporary oneLandscaped garden .

Civil society

In the 1920s, the von Schwarz family ran a restaurant on the upper floor and in 1929 left the premises to the Nazi teachers' association for training purposes. In 1939 a camp for the female Reich Labor Service was set up in the castle .

The era of those from Schwarz auf Henfenfeld ended with the purchase by the Deutsche Bundesbahn in 1952 . Until it was reprivatised in 1983, lessons at a federal railway school took place in the buildings. Subsequently, mainly business premises were housed in the facility. In the meantime, from 1989 to 1995 it was used again under public law as a transitional camp for repatriates.

In the 21st century, the Pfinzing Castle is operated privately and commercially. The current owner Denette Whitter runs an opera academy in the castle and uses the space for cultural events, among other things. A catering facility is run on the ground floor to serve guests.

The current condition of the well-preserved castle largely corresponds to the original appearance of the 16th century plus the palace park, which was newly created in the early 19th century, which is "of great national importance from a garden monument preservation point of view", of tourist and cultural interest.

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