Hammer lock Röthenbach

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Hammer lock Röthenbach, 2012

The Hammerschloss Röthenbach is a castle in Röthenbach in Markt Kohlberg (Upper Palatinate) in the Upper Palatinate district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab .

history

The castle with hipped roof and sandstone portal was built in 1678 by Hans Andreas von Schönstett. The chapel of the Conception of the Virgin Mary, which belongs to the castle, with a worth seeing Doser-Altar dates from 1726/1728. In 1751 Röthenbach was sold to the hammer master family Ertl. In 1801 the castle passed through marriage to Eduard von Grafenstein (1776–1824), district judge and lord of Gänlas, who founded the Röthenbach branch of this Bavarian aristocratic family. In 2007, the entrepreneur Raymond Grassick bought the property with stables, brewery buildings and castle grounds from Christine von Grafenstein (* 1944). Since then, he has endeavored to renovate the property. In July 2012, however, large parts of the castle collapsed during construction work. The castle has been for sale again since 2015.

Iron hammer

The iron hammer belonging to the castle is mentioned in the Bohemian Salbüchlein of Emperor Charles IV in the middle of the 14th century . A lead melt is said to have existed here previously. In 1387 the local hammer master Otto Hayden (also spelled Haid or Haiden) joined the Upper Palatinate hammer cleaning company . By marrying Katharina Haller from Nuremberg he made a great fortune. In 1410, Friedrich Gnendorfer von Wackerstein († around 1430), from the county of Vohburg, is mentioned in Röthenbach. Shortly afterwards the hammer appears to have been devastated by the Hussites . The daughter Dorothea Gnendorfer married Georg Sauerzapf († 1469) from Amberg and he is listed as the owner in Salburg by the Parkstetten district court in 1440. His son Friedrich Sauerzapf († 1497 or 1498) acquired large estates around Röthenbach from Hanns Beck von Stegenthumbach and thus laid the foundation for the Röthenbach estate. After Friedrich's death, Hanns Saurzapf managed the hammer until 1503 and paid off the accumulated liabilities. Friedrich Sauerzapf was first married to Barbara von Pappenberg, with whom he had a daughter named Katharina (who later married von Grafenreuth). In his second marriage he was married to a Katharina who survived him and after his death married the town clerk of Auerbach and Eschenbach, Niclas Hausleib. From 1503 he was named as the owner of the hammer at Röthenbach. The couple does not seem to have had sons, as Friedrich and Christoph followed here in 1532, the Pappenbergers from Unterfrankenohe and Tagmanns. At that time the hammer mill was leased to the master hammer master Christoph Smidhammer. In 1539 the hammer was sold to Paul Kastner von Unterschnaittenbach. His successor was his son Daniel Kastner (* 1542, † 1622). His first marriage to Dorothea Schlüsselfelder was childless, and his second marriage to Ursula Vorteil produced his daughter Anna Maria (* 1579), who married Christoph Paul Gugel († 1618) from Nuremberg. This marriage resulted in ten children. After Anna Maria's death, Röthenbach was sold to Hans Paul Schlaher, a captain in Delacron's dragoon regiment.

But already in 1651 Röthenbach was sold to Bernhard von Reidt and in 1670 to Hans Andreas von Schönstädt auf Buch und Weitersdorf. In 1678 he built the palace that still exists today; the chapel of the Conception of the Virgin Mary adjoining the palace building was built by the widowed Baroness Johanna von Schönstätt in 1726. The hammer went to the son Rudolf Heinrich (* 1669, † 1718). His son sold Röthenbach to the hammer master Johann Ertl von Altenweiher (also owner of the hammer works of Langenbruck and Höllziechen). His son and heir Johann Michael († 1786) married Risona von Kiesewetter. In 1803 the property passed to the daughter Anna Maria, who was married to a gentleman von Grafenstein. The palace was owned by this family for a long time, but in 2007 the entrepreneur Raymond Grassick bought the building.

The iron hammer's blast furnace was in operation until 1880. The L-shaped hammer mill building can still be seen in outline and is within sight of the hammer lock on Röthenbacher Hammerweiher. It was later converted into a polishing plant and a residential building.

Agriculture

In the second half of the 15th century, the hammer mill owner Friedrich Sauerzapf bought land and thus created the basis for expanding the hammer operation to a manor with agriculture and forestry, which in 1898 comprised 416 hectares.

brewery

In 1843 Franz Johann von Grafenstein (1808–1880) founded the von Grafenstein'sche Schlossbrauerei Röthenbach, which was located near the castle and was in operation until 1960. The old brewery building, like the castle, is a listed building.

Old brewery, 2012

Glass ribbon and glassworks

In 1759 the mirror glass loop at the Schmelzweiher was mentioned for the first time.

In 1873, the then owner of the castle, Hermann von Grafenstein sen. (1840–1902) built a glassworks . The convenient location on the Neukirchen – Weiden railway line and the skill of the von Grafenstein family ensured that the hut developed splendidly. In their prime, the hut and its subsidiaries had around 50 employees in Röthenbach and branches for processing in other towns. The founder's son, Hermann jun. von Grafenstein (1874–1955), married in 1907 into the Rasel family of porcelain manufacturers and extensively renovated and modernized his rustic hammer lock with capital from his father-in-law, Eduard Rasel, so that it offered the living comfort of an upper-class household from the turn of the century inside in Art Nouveau style.

In the course of the death of the small mouth-blown works in the 1920s, the Röthenbachhütte also ceased operations in 1928.

The hut was demolished after the Second World War . A listed workers' house and the polishing works building within sight of the castle are still preserved.

literature

  • Burkhard von Grafenstein: The mirror glass industry in Röthenbach . in: Oberpfälzer Heimat , Vol. 51, Verlag Bodner, Pressath 2006.
  • Nikol, Hans: Hammer and Landsassengut Röthenbach near Weiden. The Upper Palatinate , 1974, Volume 63, 75-80.
  • Karl Prösl: History of Kohlberg and the surrounding area . in: The Arnica - magazine of the Oberpfälzer Waldverein eV No. 1/2012, Weiden 2012.
  • Association of the Nobility in Bavaria V. (Hrsg.), Genealogical manual of the nobility enrolled in Bavaria . Vol. 21, Verlag Degener & Co., Neustadt an der Aisch 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ K. Prösl: History of Kohlberg and surroundings . In: The arnica magazine of the Oberpfälzer Waldverein eV No. 1/2012 . Weiden 2012, p. 4 .
  2. ↑ https://grafenstein.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/doser-altar-in-rothenbach/
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hammerschloss-roethenbach.de
  4. ↑ https://grafenstein.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/hammerschloss-in-rothenbach-eingesturzt/
  5. ↑ http://www.oberpfalz-luftbild.de/west/obersteinbach.htm
  6. ↑ https://de-de.facebook.com/HammerschlossRothenbach
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated June 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hammerschloss-roethenbach.com
  8. ↑ http://grafenstein.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/geschichte-der-spiegelglasindustrie-bohmische-glasmacher-bayerische-barone-und-further-spiegeljuden-verwandelten-sand-in-gold-bis-alles-zu -broken-went /

Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '  N , 12 ° 0'  E