Old Post Office Ponholz

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Coat of arms of the Alte Post, court library Prince Thurn and Taxis, Regensburg
The Alte Post in 1901. Still without a gable.
Alte Post workforce around 1930
The Alte Post in 2014
The Alte Post aerial view

The listed Alte Post in Ponholz , a current district of Maxhütte-Haidhof near Regensburg , dates back to 1766 as the Thurn und Taxis post office .

history

As early as 1740, the tavern keeper Johann Hartmann applied to the imperial postmaster general, Prince Alexander Ferdinand von Thurn und Taxis , to set up a post office in Pirkensee, as there was no post office between the free imperial city of Regensburg and the electoral government city of Amberg . In 1742 two post stations were then approved for Schwandorf and Pirkensee. Wolfgang Wilhem Laßleben, who had married Hartmann's widow, finally applied in 1764 to move the station from Pirkensee to Ponholz (Bonnholz), which, he emphasized, was exactly four hours from Schwandorf and Regensburg, and promised to repair the road for one to ensure more convenient routing. He had already acquired a farm in Ponholz, which, after the relocation was approved in 1765, was converted into a "host room" and a post office. The keystone above the entrance to the post house with the year 1766 must presumably be taken as the date of the start of construction, as the completion of the new post house took until spring 1768. In 1769, Johann Hartmann (son) received permission to take over the post office that he had bought from his stepfather. The brave economist, described by the post commissioner as a “pure farmer”, was hardly aware of his finest hour when the famous author of Werther and Götz von Berlichingen on the early morning of September 4th, 1786 on his journey to Italy with his stagecoach stopped at him. Goethe's diary entry reads: I was in Weyda, at 1 o'clock in the night in Wernberg, half past three in Schwarzenfeld, half past four in Schwandorf, half past eight in Bahnholz, at ten in Regenspurg.

After Johann Hartmann's application to build his own brewery on the busy street was rejected, at the end of 1804 he sold his property, which had meanwhile been expanded by a forge, to his son Franz Xaver and successfully asked to be allowed to cede the post office to him.

In 1810 the Royal Bavarian Government Gazette (p. 221) reports that the Bonholz post office has been moved to the town of Burglengenfeld . This ended the Hartmann era as post office keepers, but the family clearly made some wealth as landowners and brewers. From a legal dispute with the parish of Leonberg over the so-called little tenth it emerges that the Hartmanns have "cabbage, cod, beet, potato, flax, hemp, etc." for generations. cultivate.

In 1819 Franz Xaver Hartmann was elected as a landowner deputy of the "Upper Palatinate" in the assembly of estates in Munich: Hartmann von Bonholz near Burglengenfeld, a simple farmer, excellent economist, [...] as owner of the post office, had a long history of ideas Strangers expanded his circle of ideas. In his assessment as a parliamentarian in 1839 it reads: "In possession of 'blooming goods';" loyal to the throne and alien to all political activities ".

His son Alois from his marriage to Johanna Sausgruber, a daughter of the Stadtamhof tobacco merchant Jakob Sausgruber, attended the Latin school in Regensburg. After the death of his father in June 1850, he applied to come of age ahead of time and in 1851 married Elisabeth Lecker from Kronwinkl near Landshut. Daughter Elise, born on October 25, 1855, was the later dialect poet Elise Beck , who lost her father, who was only twenty-seven years old, in January 1858 at the age of a little over two years. In May 1860 the estate was taken over by Moritz Buchmann (1826-1894), known as Hartmann, and the widow Alois Hartmanns, who in the meantime had married the Ponholz privateer Joseph Kölz (1825-1878), had to go with her three children from the first marriage leave the house.

Postcard from 1901

As Gut Ponholz, the property with its four-sided courtyard u. a. evidenced by a postcard from 1901. In 1912 it was fundamentally renovated and rebuilt by the brewer August Wittich. It was only on this occasion that it received the west-facing gable . In the late 1970s, the extensive outbuildings and stables (with a Bohemian vault), which had enclosed a large courtyard at the rear of the property, were gradually demolished because they were in disrepair.

In November 2012, the current owner Robert Gerstl completed the extensive renovation of the now listed building and achieved renewed gastronomic management of the “Einkehr zur alten Post”, which brought the venerable Thurn-und-Taxis-Poststation back to life.


Owner of the Alte Post:

  • Wolfgang Wilhelm Laßleben, from 1766
  • Johann Hartmann, from 1769
  • Franz Xaver Hartmann , from 1804
  • Alois Hartmann, from 1850 to 1858
  • Moritz Buchmann, Regensburg, from 1860
  • Dr. Anton Steigerwald, from July 7, 1876
  • Ludwig Theodor Sonnenstein, from December 18, 1877
  • Alois Neubauer, from January 19, 1878
  • Josef Hölzl and Maria Sonnenstein, from May 28, 1878
  • Karl Fuchs, from August 27, 1878
  • Jakob Kahl, from February 4, 1879
  • Bayer. Mortgage and exchange bank, from March 26, 1880
  • Gottfried Kohlermann, (Munich businessman) from July 12, 1887
  • Martin Janner and Friedrich Mühlhofer, from November 19, 1889
  • Josefine Hager, from September 24, 1890
  • Leopold Englmann, from June 8, 1891
  • Johann Gollwitzer, (brewery owner) from June 27, 1891
  • August Wittich, (brewery owner from Alteglofsheim) from June 21, 1902
  • Eduard Max Förster, (manufacturer from Chemnitz) from July 5, 1917
  • Bruno Junker, from June 4, 1918
  • Richard Freiherr von Michel-Raulino , (owner of a well-known tobacco factory in Bamberg) from December 4, 1919
  • Konrad Böhm, from March 8, 1921
  • Babette Böhm, from July 19, 1927
  • Anton and Mathilde Gerl, from April 17, 1928
  • Heinrich Ebentheuer, Scharmassing, from 1934
  • Erich Koller, Burglengenfeld, from 1983
  • Christiane Koller and Bärbel Kuchler-Philipp, from 2000
  • Robert Gerstl, Regenstauf, from 2011

literature

  • Martin Dallmeier: The imperial imperial post stations Pirkensee and Ponholz (1740-1808) , 2002
  • Hubert Kernl: "Registration of the art monuments in the district of Schwandorf" in: Annual volume on culture and history in the district of Schwandorf , 5 (1994), pp. 30-38.
  • Sepp Stadlbauer: "Ponholz and his 'Alte Post', in: Festschrift for the 125th anniversary of the founding party with flag consecration of the Ponholz volunteer fire brigade , Ponholz 2000, pp. 153–159.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The information in this section largely follows Martin Dallmeier: The imperial imperial post stations Pirkensee and Ponholz (1766-1808).
  2. ↑ Martin Dallmeier: The imperial imperial post stations Pirkensee and Ponholz (1766-1808).
  3. ^ Diary of the Italian trip for Frau von Stein. 1786, Munich edition, vol. 3.1, 1990, p. 11f. “Bahnholz” is Goethe's spelling for Bonholz.
  4. ↑ Max Freiherr du Prel, About the obligation to the realm of the small tithe in Bavaria , Munich 1841, p. XII
  5. ↑ Der Baierische Verfassungs-Freund , Volume 1, 1819, p. 107
  6. ↑ Josef Leeb, Suffrage and Elections to the Second Chamber of the Bavarian Estates Assembly in Vormärz (1818 - 1845) , Göttingen, 1996, Vol. 2, pp. 518, 520f., 788
  7. ^ Royal Lyceum Regensburg, annual report: 1845/46 , p. 21
  8. ↑ Alois Hartmann von Bonholz and Jos. Hagenauer von Kallstadt were declared of age at their request. In: The People's Messenger for the Citizen and Farmer , No. 198, 23 August 1850. The age of majority was reached at the age of 21.
  9. ^ Regensburger Zeitung of January 21, 1858, p. 84
  10. ↑ The Münchener Zeitung shows him in 1856 as "Brauer von Bonnholz" (p. 1522).
  11. ↑ The Königlich Bayerischer Polizey-Anzeiger von München , 1856, p. 658, documents a joint visit of the two in Munich.
  12. ↑ http://www.kandlbinders-kueche.de/index.php/extra/geschichte
  13. ↑ The list of owners of the property at house number 1 in Ponholz for the period from 1860 to 1928 was made available by the Amberg State Archives.
  14. ↑ According to a report by the Indiana Tribune , Volume 25, Number 288, July 28, 1902, the purchase price was 200,000 marks.
  15. ↑ Heinrich Ebentheuer was the last owner of the Alte Post, who also owned the associated lands.

Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 50.7 "  N , 12 ° 5 ′ 55"  E