Grötschenreuth

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View of Grötschenreuth with the castle, the stone forest rises in the background

Grötschenreuth (Bavarian: Gretscharad) is located at approx. 475 m above sea level in the valley of the Fichtelnaab and is a district of Erbendorf with around 200 inhabitants . There is an old castle on a hill in the village. The hamlet of Frauenberg, also called Obergrötschenreuth, belongs to the place.

history

It was first mentioned in a document in 1109. Grötschenreuth was listed as a donation to the Weißenohe monastery along with 29 other villages . This was confirmed by the Roman-German King Philip on April 14, 1205 when he took the monastery under protection.

Information on the history of the place and the hammer mill can be found in the Leuchtenberg Lehenbuch . After that, the place Grötschenreuth and the local hammer mill were already in 1362 the Leuchtenberg fiefdom . In 1387 the hammer owner Otto Heyden from Grötschenreuther founded the first hammer union together with a few other hammer owners . In the 14th and 15th centuries, a Schienhammer (hammer mill, which produced its iron itself by smelting ore) was in operation in Grötschenreuth . In 1400 Grötschenreuth was named as an accessory to the knight's fief Siegritz with the hammers Hopfau and Grötschenreuth. In 1467 Landgrave Friedrich V gave the village and the hammer to Nikolaus Pfreimdner. The hammer mill in Grötschenreuth was handed over to Christoph von Rotschütz in 1579. In 1605, Hans Georg Steinhauser acquired the town of Grötschenreuth and the hammer, which was described as "dreary standing". This was also the last mention of the Grötschenreuth hammer mill. Around 1611 the still existing Grötschenreuth Castle was built as a successor to Frauenberg Castle. The castle was slightly damaged in the Thirty Years' War and in both world wars.

The Schienhammer has not been in operation since the 15th century. In 1800 Reichenberger bought the hammer. The hammer was replaced by a wire hammer, which was reported in 1849: "[...] namely in Gretschenreuth an important wire factory, even the largest one in Bavaria with 27 workers". J. Martin Reichenberger invented the galvanization of iron wire for telegraphy in 1865 . From 1822 Grötschenreuth was no longer a fiefdom and free property.

On January 1, 1972, Grötschenreuth was incorporated into the city of Erbendorf.

Grötschenreuth is the birthplace of Philomena Reichenberger, the mother of Max Reger , who married Josef Reger (1847-1905) on October 12, 1871 in Ebnath .

literature

  • Steinwaldia Pullenreuth (Ed.): Wir am Steinwald , Heft 4 (1996), pp. 28-32. 1996, Verlag E. Bodner, Pressath, ISBN 3-926817-47-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our district: home book of the district Neustadt an d. Waldnaab. Home register of the district of Neustadt an d. Waldnaab, p. 82. Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1960.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 557 .
  3. ↑ Grötschenreuth

Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '  N , 12 ° 2'  E