Top 10 Castles around Poppenricht

Moos Castle Moos was the seat of the noble family of Moos. Otto von Moß is mentioned as a witness in documents in 1121, Hermann von Moße in 1126, Otto von Mose in 1166, and Friedrich Mosaer in 1190. The service in which this family served and their coat of arms are unknown. Presumably, there was no stone manor at that time, but rather a motte-and-bailey castle built on a hill. The Moos family appears until the end of the 12th century, after which their trail disappears. In the first half of the 14th century, Moos was already a Hofmark (a type of manor). The Nortweiner family, who were wealthy landowners in the area, are mentioned as its owners. In the mid-15th century, Moos came into the possession of Jörg Kastner; the subsequent ownership history is unclear. The estate moved to the center of Bavarian history when Elector Maximilian had the city of Amberg surrendered to him at Moos Castle on October 8, 1621, after the Battle of White Mountain. Thus, the estate reverted from the Electorate of the Palatinate to Bavaria. Due to heavy debt, the estate passed to the government in Amberg, and various owners followed. In 1904, all the property belonging to the castle was demolished. A year later, Leonhard Bernreuther acquired the castle and renovated it in exemplary fashion. It then passed to the Uwe Herrmann family. The newly renovated castle is a three-story solid building with a hipped roof, dormer windows, and simple stucco detailing. The building dates back to the Late Gothic period; it may have previously been a fortified house. In 1738, it was rebuilt with the exception of the four main walls. Until the reconstruction, it was a defensive structure with one-meter-thick walls on the ground floor and narrow slits instead of windows. Two windows remain on the east side. There, on the first floor, is an exposed Late Gothic window with a straight lintel and dressed stonework, as well as a latrine bay window. A ring wall with numerous keyhole-shaped loopholes hewn from dressed stone and four projecting corner towers from the first construction phase surrounds the castle. It is approximately three meters high and 80 cm thick. The tall spires were added during the last renovation (1982–1984). The former moat can still be seen as a strip of barren land on the south and east sides. Access to the complex is from the north; a bridge once stood here, the inner section of which could be raised. Source: Excerpts from www.wikipedia.de

Scharfenberg Castle is the remains of a ruined high medieval spur castle that once stood on a rocky spur at a foothill of the Scharfenberg mountain in the municipality of Ursensollen in the Upper Palatinate district of Amberg-Sulzbach in Bavaria. It was the ancestral seat of the Scharfenberg family, who burned down the Kastl monastery in 1217. The complex is listed as an archaeological monument in the Bavaria Atlas as the "medieval castle ruins of Scharfenberg." Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgstall_Scharfenberg

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Ramertshof Castle Ruins The Ramertshof Castle Ruins, also known as Rammertshof, are the ruins of a spur castle on a spur above the southern edge of the Ammerbach valley, immediately west of the Rammertshof near Amberg in Bavaria. In 1385 and 1404, an Ulrich of the Rameltzhofer is mentioned in the chronicles, and in 1398 a Chunrat of the Rameltzhofer. The castle was probably destroyed in the Thirty Years' War. Only a four-sided farm was built on the remains. In 1880, the farm was destroyed by fire. In 1941, the castle complex was identified by senior government councilor Anton Dollacker. In 1961, the area was incorporated into the Fuchsstein military training area, and the buildings built after 1880 were largely demolished. At the end of the 20th century, the Fuchsstein military training area was closed, which led to the rediscovery of the Ramertshof ruins. From the castle complex built in the 13th century, the remains of the 23 by 13 meter large palace with humped blocks are still preserved, as well as the remains of the rampart and moat on the west side of the complex. Source: www.burgenwelt.org/deutschland/rammertshof/object.php www.wikipedia.de

The Ziegeltor is the northeastern city gate of Amberg.

Burgstall Scharfenberg The Burgstall Scharfenberg is the remains of a ruined high medieval spur castle that once stood on a rocky spur on a foothill of the Scharfenberg in the municipality of Ursensollen in the Upper Palatinate district of Amberg-Sulzbach in Bavaria. It was the ancestral castle of the Scharfenberg family, who burned down the Kastl monastery in 1217. Very little is known about the early history of the castle and that of the nobles of Scharfenberg. It is also unclear whether this noble family of Scharfenberg is identical to that of the nobles of Ursensollen. A Heinrich de Ursensolingen appears in a document from the Ensdorf monastery in 1144. The castle complex was probably built around 1200 as the ancestral seat of the Upper Palatinate noble family of Scharfenberg. A Sulzbach chronicle reports that the Scharfenberg family was denied the burial rights to which they were entitled by the Kastler monastery abbot Gebhard von Rieden, who then set fire to the monastery in 1217. The Scharfenberg family castle was then said to have been destroyed by the monastery's protectors, the Margraves of Hohenburg. It is not known whether this destruction of the castle was permanent; from the 14th century onwards, the Scharfenberg family was given the additional name "von Ursensollen". By the middle of the 16th century at the latest, however, the castle complex was in ruins; a Kastler chronicler speaks of the "old vestigia". Remains of the keep and the moat of the former castle complex still remain. The square keep had sides seven metres long and walls two metres thick. Source: Excerpts from www.wikipedia.de

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 www.wikipedia.de

The Ziegeltor is one of four preserved gates in the city wall of Amberg and is located in the northeast of the old town, near the former brickworks. This is where the name of the gate comes from. Around 1581 the simple Gothic tower of the gate was raised. Today the Ziegeltor is owned by a youth organization.