Stilt yard
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Stilt yard
Community Neckarwestheim
Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 9 ″ N , 9 ° 14 ′ 19 ″ E
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| Residents : | 35 |
| Postal code : | 74360 |
| Area code : | 07062 |
Pfahlhof is a suburb of the municipality of Neckarwestheim in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg , which goes back to a Meierhof with an inn and stake market that was laid out in 1722 .
geography
The Pfahlhof is located about three kilometers southeast of Neckarwestheim in a narrow meadow valley ( Seebronnental ) cleared about two kilometers in the Pfahlhofer Wald . Today the streets from Ilsfeld to Ottmarsheim and from Neckarwestheim to Winzerhausen cross at the Pfahlhof .
history
The area of the Pfahlhofer Wald is an ancient settlement area, in which settlement finds from all epochs since the Stone Age have been found. In Roman times there were one or more Roman manors in the Seebronnental , and in the 16th century the abandoned Geiselhausen settlement is occupied about 300 meters east of the pile yard.
The Pfahlhof was founded in 1722 by the ducal Württemberg Chamber of Commerce, which was then owned by the Pfahlhofer Forest. The proposal to found a farm goes back to the Württemberg cellar Johann Christoph Becht, who was sitting at Castle Liebenstein and who in 1721 sent a plan for a dairy farm and a cost estimate to Duke Eberhard Ludwig , which he approved on April 25, 1722. For the construction of the building in the summer of 1722, hewn stones from Geiselhausen , which had already been sold, were used. The name Pfahlhof arose from the fact that in addition to the dairy and an inn, a stake market was also intended to be set up for the split and sawn timber traders from the surrounding forests. The piles were needed in particular for viticulture , which at that time was still in the process of being rebuilt after the damage caused by French invasions during the War of the Palatinate Succession (1688–1697).
The farm was initially leased for nine years. The first tenant was Hans Ludwig Hermann from Neckarwestheim. The operation of the farm was successful from the beginning, so in the first year 7800 liters of wine were sold there, and in 1723 the first extension to include stables was necessary. Since the tenants particularly benefited from the unrestricted use of the stake trade, the black market in stakes or the stake trade developing in neighboring territories outside of Württemberg was a particular stumbling block for them, which was criticized several times against the duke. Conversely, the duke also urged the tenants to only sell stakes in Württemberg and not outside of Württemberg. In 1741 Jakob Mack from Neckarwestheim became the tenant of the farm. In 1772, Samuel Mayer acquired the farm's inheritance, which was valid “forever”. After his accidental death in 1776, his widow married the widower Johannes Conrad from Mittelbrüden near Backnang. Until the death of the last Conrad heir in 1909, the farm remained in the possession of this family, who were able to convert it from inheritance into property in 1818.
The stake trade came to a standstill in the 19th century. In 1892 an avenue from Liebenstein Castle to the Pfahlhof was planned, but it was never realized. After the death of the last Conrad in 1909, the farm was divided up, with the inn in particular being separated from the farm. The inn was modernized and the courtyard became a popular destination for the residents of the surrounding areas. In the 1960s, Pfahlhof consisted of five farms, a forester's house and the inn. Nine families with a total of around 30 people were counted in terms of residents.
Unlike Neckarwestheim, Pfahlhof can be reached by dialing the area code for Beilstein (07062).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pfahlhof district on neckarwestheim.de (accessed on February 21, 2016)
literature
- August Holder : The Bottwartal and its surroundings. Stuttgart 1897.
- Otto Conrad: The pile yard at the Wunnenstein . In: Swabia and Franconia. Local history supplement of the Heilbronn voice . 9th year, no. 8 . Verlag Heilbronner Voice, August 31, 1963, ZDB -ID 128017-X (continued in No. 9 of September 28, 1963.).
- Otto Conrad: The pile yard at the Wunnenstein. In: Ludwigsburg history sheets XVI. 1964, pp. 68-90.