Hammerschloss Leupoldsdorf

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Hammerschloss Leupoldsdorf
Coat of arms of those von Müller at the Hammerschloss Leupoldsdorf
Gardens with water wheel at the Hammerschloss Leupoldsdorf

The listed Hammerschloss Leupoldsdorf (sometimes also referred to as Leupoldsdorfer Hammer ) is located in the Leupoldsdorf district of the Upper Franconian municipality of Tröstau in the Wunsiedel district in the Fichtel Mountains (Schloßweg 14).

history

The area in which Leupoldsdorf was located was owned by the Counts of Truhendingen in the 12th century . In 1386 they pledged their property to the Bishop of Bamberg . On March 10, 1396, Johann von Truhendingen sold his property to Bishop Lamprecht von Bamberg, with Leupersdorf also appearing in the list.

The Leupoldsdorfer Hammer was first mentioned in a document on December 29, 1393. On April 30, 1432, the hammer was named on the occasion of a transfer to Ulrich von Taubenmerckel by the Margrave of Kulmbach-Bayreuth . Under the owners Franck (from 1563) and Schreyer (from 1620) the hammer mill developed into an important business. The hammer was badly damaged in the Thirty Years War . In 1708 the margravial hunter Michael Müller, married to a daughter of the hammer master Simon Schreyer, took over the hammer. Under Johann Christoph von Müller, who was ennobled in 1816, the Leupoldsdorf hammer experienced its heyday. In the 18th and 19th centuries there was a rod hammer with a blast furnace, fresh fire, Zainhammer, tin hammer and tin house. The work was closed in 1863 because of competition from England and America. Since the hammer owner had to look after 13 single daughters, the land and buildings belonging to the hammer mill were sold from 1895. The castle of the former hammer lord von Müller has been owned by the König family since 1917 and is now a restaurant.

Leupoldsdorf Castle today

The mansion of the hammer dates from the 17th century and was rebuilt in 1815/16. It is a three-storey Walmdachbau with a roof turret in baroque form in the 17th century. It was increased after 1816. on the ground floor there are rooms with barrel or cross vaults .

The coat of arms of the von Müller family is affixed to the west side of the castle building; two coats of arms of the Schreyer family are applied to the passage from the gate to the castle. The gatehouse of the Leupoldsdorfer Hammerschloss is a two-storey stone-built and plastered gable roof structure and with the year "1687" refers to its origin in the 17th century. The gatehouse was taken over by the municipality and there is an exhibition here that recalls the history of the iron hammer in Leupoldsdorf and iron processing in the region, as well as an information point for the Fichtelgebirge Nature Park .

The historically documented garden was renovated from 2010 and restored according to old plans. The former mill ditch was exposed and included in the ensemble with an open moat and a water wheel. Since the Hammerherren von Müller can be shown to have also been active in the field of fruit tree cultivation, the topic of "fruit growing in cold areas" was presented in the southern garden area of ​​the hammer castle.

On June 30, 2016, the municipality of Tröstau, on behalf of Mayor Heinz Martini, was awarded the monument protection medal for its "single-minded commitment to exemplary repair of the Leupoldsdorf hammer castle".

literature

  • Isolde Maierhöfer: Boars. The district of Ebern in its lordly development until the end of the Old Kingdom. (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Franconia Series I, Issue 15). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich (p. 25) 1964.
  • Franz Michael Ress: Buildings, monuments and foundations of German ironworkers . Written on behalf of the Association of German Ironworkers . Verlag Stahleisen, Düsseldorf 1960, DNB  453998070 , p. 172 .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Leupoldsdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schlossgasthof König
  2. ↑ Susanne Tomis-Nedvidek: A gem as a tourist attraction , in: Frankenpost, May 13, 2013, accessed on March 10, 2020.
  3. ↑ BSZ: Worthwhile excursion destination. The gatehouse and the spa gardens of the Leupoldsdorf Hammerschloss were redesigned , in: Bayerische Staatszeitung , May 6, 2011, accessed on March 11, 2020.
  4. ↑ Kuchenreuther Architekten / Urban Planners: Reconstruction and renovation of the Torhaus Schloss Leupoldsdorf , accessed on March 10, 2020.

Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′ 38.5 ″  N , 11 ° 56 ′ 1.6 ″  E