Unterblade Spur Manor

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Unterblade Spur Manor

The listed manor house Unterklingensporn (sometimes also called Hammerschloss Unterklingensporn ) is located in the district of Unterklingensporn in the Upper Franconian town of Naila in Bavaria (Unterklingensporn 1). The hammer mill was operated by the water of the Selbitz .

history

The lower blade spur was first mentioned in a document in 1248. The place was given as a Brandenburg fief to the personal physician Klingensporn at the court of the Hungarian king. The Reichsherold, Nikolaus von Klingsporn, had protested against the capture by the Count of Nuremberg. Since the Brandenburg margrave was also Lord of Nuremberg at that time, he returned Klingensporn to the family of the Hungarian personal physician of King Andreas II , the father of St. Elisabeth, Nikolaus von Klingsporn.

Another owner was Heinrich von Weida, who had already been cultivating Blade Spur before 1432. At the time, the Unterklingensporn property belonged to the Brandenburg-Kulmbach margraviate . In 1507 the estate was named as the property of Hanns von Reitzenstein zu Schwarzenstein . On June 20, 1637 the estate was sold to the councilor and councilor Johann Drechsel († February 2, 1657). In the Thirty Years' War , Unterblade Spur was spared from destruction, but the financial burdens of the war drove Drechsel to ruin. The following Johann Georg Drechsel brought Unterblade Spur to an economic boom in 1686.

Unterklingensporn is known for an attack on July 16, 1695. Around ten o'clock in the morning a group of 20 men on foot and on horseback surrounded the hammer house, smashed the gates and penetrated with burning torches. The hammer owner, Johann Georg Drechsel, and the servants were brutally mistreated, the wife's ear was cut off. 2500 guilders were stolen and all gold and silver dishes were carried away. Drechsel died five years later on September 26, 1700 as a result of the abuse. In 1702 the authorities found out from a thief who was involved in the attack that they were the nobles von Tritschler, von der Planitz, two from Reitzenstein, von Schönfeld and one from Oberländer, as well as a noble lady and a lady. They were tried in the city of Hof . On May 5, 1703 von Tritschler, von der Planitz and von Reitzenstein lost their lives under the sword of the executioner . Only von der Planitz was buried in church because he showed repentance, the others were buried at the poor sinners field. The body of von Schönfeld, who died in prison on May 29, 1703, was braided onto the wheel of the high court. Of the other accused, the weaver Fußheinrich was hanged and three others were beheaded. The others were expelled from the country.

Christian Heinrich Löwel probably acquired the castle with the hammer mill and the surrounding mines and smelters after Drechsel's death. In 1723 Christian Heinrich Löwel built a new hammer mill and converted the manor house into a baroque hammer lock . The renovation was completed in 1768, the year is still in a ceiling ornament in the house. In 1780 Ernst Abraham Löwel owned the Unterklingensporn ironworks, consisting of a stick fire, a mansion and farm buildings. His contemporary Freiherr von Hofmann describes him as “a wealthy and active hammer gentleman, who is also known as a philanthropist in the whole area, whose ancestors descended from Saxony (bought the Kleinschmidthammer in 1684), and who acquired great fortune from ironworkers.” His son Heinrich David Theodor Löwel (born May 1, 1778, † June 4, 1855) was a Prussian Kommerzienrat and the first private ironworker to rise to this dignity in Prussia. The later mine owner and banker Johann Christian Löwel was a friend of the Bavarian King Ludwig I , who had to abdicate in 1848 because of an affair with the dancer Lola Montez ; the latter then fled to Unterblade Spur, where the king visited them several times. From there she traveled on to London and San Francisco.

In the 19th century, with the decline in mining, the economic situation in Unterblade Spur deteriorated. After several changes of ownership, the iron hammer was discontinued in 1870. 1919 acquired Eberhard Schamel, lawyer from Würzburg and 2 May 1952 to May 1, 1963 District Administrator for Nonpartisan voter community , the hammer lock. He managed the estate until his death in 1968. His daughter, Herta Hofmann, inherited the property. Four years after her death, the current owner, Volkmar Schneider, bought the hammer lock with the surrounding land in 1985.

Unterblade Spur Manor

Lower Blade Spur Manor today

The manor house of the former Hammergut is a two-storey mansard roof building with a pilaster structure from 1768. A driveway with two gate pillars and a wrought iron gate, which was probably built there, leads to the castle.

Lower Blade Spur was renovated in 2015. The Schneider family offers accommodation for holiday guests in the former servants' house, hiring horses and overnight accommodation for trail riders .

literature

Web links

Commons : Herrenhaus Unterklingensporn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. JGA Pretty, k.prot. Pastor in Helmbrechts in History of the City and the District of Naila, Helmbrechts, 1863.
  2. ^ Franz Michael Ress, 1960, p. 180.

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '3.3 "  N , 11 ° 42' 7.4"  E