Tucher Castle

The administrator of the imperial city office of Reicheneck, Johann Gottlieb Tucher, born in 1662, acquired the so-called Weihergut with the "schlößel" from Johann Georg von Preysing in 1700. The buyer presumably had the old Weiherhaus demolished soon after the purchase and erected a two-story manor house with a gabled roof in the neighboring garden in 1701/02. The archival records were confirmed by a dendrochronological analysis of the building timbers.

Johann Gottlieb Tucher and his wife Maria Jakobina, née von Hardesheim, probably only used the Happurg manor house for occasional stays. In 1713, the couple had a tenant (presumably on the ground floor) who was accused of wool theft at the time. Immediately thereafter, Tucher rented the living quarters to the tenant of the castle economy, Mattheus Beer, who was also appointed as a bailiff.

The lord of the castle, who had served for many years as an officer in the army of the Franconian Circle and fought in the War of the Spanish Succession, died at a ripe old age only in 1742. The property passed to his son Carl Benedikt Tucher, married to Maria Katharina Ebner von Eschenbach. When Carl Benedikt died in 1750, he was inherited by his widow and daughter Maria Jakobina, who had married Johann Georg Haller von Hallerstein.

In 1763, the community of heirs had to accept the billeting of military personnel. In the late 18th century, an apartment was rented to the widow of the Happurg court clerk. After the death of Johann Sigmund Haller von Hallerstein, who had inherited from his grandmother Maria Katharina Tucher, the property was sold in several parts to the highest bidders by the Haller community of heirs in 1811. Georg Fuchs acquired the "Hallerisches Schloß" at that time, and in 1831 he gifted it to his foster daughter Walburga Meier. In 1875, Johann Georg Fuchs took over the property, and in 1919, his daughter and her groom Benedikt Müller. The Tucher Castle is still family property and underwent an award-winning restoration in 2004/2005. During this process, it was discovered that the original plaster design of the facades was largely preserved under a modern cement plaster layer. The remarkable finish of tinted surfaces and light banding was restored.