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Teublitz Castle

Teublitz Castle is a simple two-story building with a mansard roof in Teublitz in the Upper Palatinate. It was built between 1750 and 1780 by Karl Wilhelm Teufel von Pirkensee, who took his own life in the new castle on April 16, 1780. There must have been at least one predecessor building to the castle, but its location is disputed. Remains of the "Old Castle" or a fortified complex are suspected both in the ruin in today's city park (former castle park) and on the so-called Schwedenschanze.
Castle Estate and Park+
The castle then included a castle estate with considerable land ownership of forest, meadows, fields, and ponds, as well as a large park, which around 1800 Conrad Reinhard Ritter von Koch had transformed into an English landscape garden. Among other things, a lake with an island was created, a monopteros was erected on an artificial hill, and either an existing ruin was redesigned or possibly built entirely new.
Owners+
The noble owners of the castle, the associated property, and thus until 1848 also the judicial lords of Teublitz were:
- 1780-1786 Joseph Ernst Wilhelm Teufel von Pirkensee?
- 1786-1795 Karl Philipp Wolfgang Teufel von Pirkensee (brother of the previous?)
- 1795-1800 Friederike Luise Ernestine Edle von Koch (niece of the previous)
- 1800-1820 Conrad Reinhard Ritter von Koch (husband of the previous; he was envoy of Oldenburg and Lübeck to the Perpetual Imperial Diet in Regensburg; father of Friedrich August Freiherr von Gise)
- 1820-1824 Maria Anna Bertrand de St. Rémy Countess von La Pérouse (née Countess von Arco-Valley) (mother-in-law of Friedrich August Freiherr von Gise)
- 1824-1865 Franziska Freifrau von Gise (née Bertrand de St. Rémy Countess von La Perouse) (daughter of the previous; wife of Friedrich August Freiherr von Gise)
- 1865-1890 Maximilian Freiherr von Gise (son of the previous)
- 1890-1898 August Freiherr von Gise and 1890-1892 Maria Countess von Deym (children of the previous)
- 1898-1919 Irma Freifrau von Rolshausen (née Freiin von Gise, widowed Countess von Walderdorff) (daughter of the previous)
Usage+
From 1945, the castle initially housed an agricultural school or a kibbutz for several months to prepare Jewish concentration camp survivors for emigration to Palestine, then an orphanage, and later a branch of a textile company (sewing factory). In 1978, the living quarters were reduced in size. Currently, the castle houses a social care and therapeutic institution.
The park, previously reserved for the castle owners, was opened in the 1930s. Since the fencing of the part that remained in private ownership in the 1950s, about half of the former castle park is now publicly accessible as the so-called city park.
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