Hammer lock Grötschenreuth

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Hammer lock Grötschenreuth

The listed hammer castle Grötschenreuth (also called Drahthammer Grötschenreuth ) is located in the Grötschenreuth district of the same name in the Upper Palatinate town of Erbendorf in the Tirschenreuth district (Grötschenreuth G 3 - Grötschenreuth G 7).

history

A hammer is mentioned for the first time in Grötschenreuth in the 14th century . Grötschenreuth and the hammer mill located there was a Leuchtenberg fiefdom in 1362 . In 1387, Otto Heyden , the hammer owner from Grötschenreuther, founded the first hammer association with several other hammer owners. In the 14th and 15th centuries, a Schienhammer (i.e. a hammer mill that made its own iron by smelting ore) was in operation in Grötschenreuth , which was later replaced by a wire hammer . In 1400, Grötschenreuth was named as an accessory to the knight's fief Siegritz with two hammers (Hammer Hopfau and Hammer Grötschenreuth). In 1467 Landgrave Friedrich V gave the village and the hammer to Nikolaus Pfreimdner . The hammer mill in Grötschenreuth was sold to Christoph von Rotschütz , a margrave of Brandenburg bailiff zu Hohnberg, 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. On February 16, 1637 Margareta Salome von Steinhauser , the only daughter of Hans Georg, who died in 1636, married Johann Paul Weikmann , son of the Erbendorf town clerk Justus Paul Weickmann . The hammer lock remained in the Weikmann family until the 19th century.

In a document from 1849 it says: namely a trahthammer in Gretschenreuth, namely the most famous one in Bavaria with 27 works .

Hammerschloss Grötschenreuth today

The mansion of the former Drahthammers is a two-wing, two-story, plastered solid building with a hipped roof , a dwarf house and a ridge turret . The core of the building dates from the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1804 it was renewed. The plaster structure with pilasters on high plinths with striped rustica and straps was restored between 1991 and 1993.

The chapel of Our Lady (the so-called Loreto or Drahthammer Chapel) belongs to the ensemble . The chapel was built between 1745 and 1750 by pastor Johann Michael Pfreimbter and the squire Johann Christoph von Weickmann on Grötschenreuth. The chapel was destroyed by fire in 1771 and 1796 and redesigned in Gothic style between 1844 and 1856. Today this is a plastered and three-sided closed solid building with a gable roof and an ogival, neo-gothic robe portal from 1858. It is unusual that the chapel has no tower.

The castle is privately owned and cannot be visited.

literature

  • Detlef Knipping, Gabriele Raßhofer: Tirschenreuth district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume III.45 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2000, ISBN 3-87490-579-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments from Erbendorf .

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Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '15.1 "  N , 12 ° 1' 22.8"  E