Hammerschloss Vilswörth

Hammerschloss Vilswörth

Weir systems at the Hammerschloss Vilswörth

Entrance portal of the hammer lock Vilswörth

The Hammerschloss Vilswörth is located in the Upper Palatinate district of Rieden (Vilswörth 4).

history

Vilswörth was built as a mill in 1240. From the year 1487 comes a hammer letter from Count Palatine Philipps , which allows the Ulrichen Altmann zu Schmidtmühlen and his wife Anna to build a rail and sheet metal hammer and a mill. 1594/95 is named as Hammerherr Wolf von Kemnath . In 1616 the city of Amberg took legal action against the hammer mill owner, as he had outstanding debts of 1,600 fl .

The hammer was used as a rail hammer until the middle of the Thirty Years War ; in 1636 it was looted and devastated. In 1648, however, it is described as producing again, in 1693 iron production was 35 quintals per week. In 1670 Georg Mägerl is the hammer master of Vilswörth, who is mentioned in connection with the ultimately unsuccessful ore mining attempts in the nearby vineyards .

In 1749, Leonhard Anton von Frank († 1785), who also owned Troschelhammer Castle , is mentioned as the local owner of the Hofmark . His successor was his initially minor son Karl , for whom Leonhard von Frank auf Gmünd had taken over the guardianship.

After the demise of the hammer trade, the hammer building was used as a mill and as a mirror glass loop with a polishing unit.

Hammer lock today

The building that still exists today goes back to a new building from the middle of the 18th century. The property also includes a stable with a gable roof and a three-aisled groined vault from the 18th century, the attic of which has been renewed. After a fire in 2002, the attic, parts of the upper floor and the furnishings were renewed by the owners Monika Merl and Roland Frank. Today the hammer lock is again a renovated hipped roof building with corner rustication, plaster bands and a sandstone portal that dates from 1700.

A small hydropower plant is now attached to the building. The engine duct was built as a trough structure. The former stone arch bridge, which collapsed due to flooding, was rebuilt as a single-span steel girder superstructure with planking made of oak.

Epitaph of Katharina Altmann at the Church of St. Michael in Vilshofen

literature

• Reinhard Dähne, Wolfgang Roser: The Bavarian Iron Road from Pegnitz to Regensburg. (= Booklets on Bavarian history and culture. Volume 5). Munich 1988, DNB 880787503 , pp. 30-31.
• Dirk Götschmann: Upper Palatinate iron. Mining and iron industry in the 16th and 17th centuries. Ed. Association of Friends and Supporters of the Mining and Industry Museum in East Bavaria (= series of publications by the Mining and Industry Museum in East Bavaria. Volume 5). Theuern 1985, ISBN 3-924350-05-1 . (including wood and charcoal measurements. )
• Sixtus Lampl: Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments. Volume III, Upper Palatinate, Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (ed.), Munich 1985, ISBN 3-486-52394-5 .

Web links

Commons : Hammerschloss Vilswörth  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Entry on Hammerschloss Vilswörth in the private database "Alle Burgen".
• Living with a memorial , report from BR television

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Historical Atlas of Bavaria : Altbayern Series I, Issue 40: Kemnath, p. 168.
2. ↑ Report from the annual closing meeting of the Rieden municipal council on December 7th, 2017 ( Memento of the original of March 23, 2018 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. 

Coordinates: 49 ° 32 ′ 38 "  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 31"  E