Holnstein (Neukirchen near Sulzbach-Rosenberg)

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Holnstein
Coordinates: 49 ° 33 ′ 23 "  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 44"  E
Height : 472 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 142
Incorporation : January 1, 1978
Postal code : 92259
Area code : 09663
The lock
The lock

Holnstein is one of 37 districts of the community Neukirchen bei Sulzbach-Rosenberg in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach .

location

The small town is about four kilometers west of Neukirchen and 40 km east of Nuremberg in the Upper Palatinate at the transition from the Franconian Alb to the Upper Palatinate Jura . The Reinbach flows through the village . The state road 2164 through Holnstein.

Residents

In 1933 the place had 297 and in 1939 a total of 282 inhabitants.

Street names

In Holnstein there are no street names, only house numbers that residents, postmen, vendors and visitors have to use for orientation.

history

lock

The castle was first mentioned in a document around 1100. The name is derived from hollow stone . A house-high cave filled with stalactites made of limestone is located behind the property "Am Felsen Nr. 4" and was last used as a storage room and stable. The Neolithic used caves of the Altmühl region and the Bavarian Jura are mostly much higher (and drier), so that at most a temporary use in the Stone Age can be assumed.

Bishop Gundekar von Eichstätt (1019-1075) consecrated the first church in "Holenstein" before 1072. Holnstein as some neighboring towns could then seat of a noble-free have been family, with the Counts of Babonen was connected. The first owner of the castle were the Stewards of Sulzbach to 1167 is as owner Gottfried dapifer (lat. For Steward) mentioned. At that time, the Counts of Hirschberg had not yet taken over the Sulzbach inheritance.

The castle is built in a horseshoe shape, with the two wings connected by a bastion . The facility is built on rocks . Holnstein Castle has been pledged, sold and bequeathed over and over again in the course of history, for example to the Freudenberger, Ammerthaler (1350), Sparnecker, Redwitzer (1442–1553), Tandorfer (1553), Ödenberger, Sauerzapf (1589), Baumgartner ( 1596), to Haller von Hallerstein (1726) and the Stromer von Reichenbach family (1750). In 1853 the municipality of Holnstein bought it.

The 1502 of Redwitz the brewing right granted. In 1939, Georg Behringer bought the brewery for his son Andreas, who soon got the business going. Maria Behringer later handed the brewery over to her daughter Karola. Karola and Franz Haberler built a new brewhouse , modernized fermentation and storage cellar, bottle and barrel filling plant. Brewing operations were stopped at the end of September 2017.

economy

In addition to agricultural farms and small businesses, there are:

  • Inn (closed on June 30, 2018)
  • Butcher (closed on June 30, 2018)
  • bakery
  • Gun shop

Web links

Commons : Holnstein  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Sulzbach-Rosenberg. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  2. ↑ Schlossbrauerei Holnstein closes on September 30th at the end of a beer culture . In: onetz.de . Retrieved August 25, 2017.