Rockenbrunn
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Rockenbrunn
City of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz
Coordinates: 49 ° 28 '4 " N , 11 ° 17' 36" E
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| Height : | 402 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 28 (May 25 1987) |
| Postal code : | 90552 |
| Area code : | 09120 |
 Jagdschlösschen Rockenbrunn
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Rockenbrunn is a district of Haimendorf and has belonged to the town of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz since the regional reform in 1972 with the Moritzberg .
Rockenbrunn has eight houses, the small castle has had the address Rockenbrunn 1 since the Napoleonic rule .
architecture
The core of the hamlet of Rockenbrunn, which has a few houses in a deeply cut sandstone valley at the foot of the Moritzberg with old oak trees, is the so-called Jagdschlösschen with its fountain courtyard, which belongs to the Fürer's castle in Haimendorf. Like Haimendorf Castle and the St. Mauritius Chapel on Moritzberg, it is still owned by the Fürer family today (coat of arms with wheel and lily above the entrance door of the inn in the inner courtyard). The ensemble, unique of its kind, encloses a rectangular fountain courtyard. The east and south walls are made of sandstone, the west and north sides are two-story sandstone half-timbered buildings. In the inner courtyard there is a spring socket with a baroque sandstone balustrade.
The east wall of the courtyard consists of three arcades (reference to the arcadia of Virgil used as a model in the seals ( Bucolic seal ) of the Pegnese Order of Flowers ) in sandstone masonry, two of which contain the entrances to medieval cooling cellars, which probably used to store the ice from the surrounding ponds The third arcade contains the rock spring, the water of which is fed through a channel to the baroque fountain basin. This spring with its arcades was probably a main venue for the shepherd games of the Pegnese Order of Flowers. Years carved on the east wall, 1543 and 1643 respectively above the left arcade, a building inscription panel with the coat of arms of the Tucher and Fürer von Haimendorf , dated 1653, between the second and third arcade 1736 and in the north wall of the two-winged, The half-timbered building closing off the courtyard in 1718 allows the chronology of the construction to be estimated. The arcade pavilion seen in Annert's engraving on the top right is no longer there.
The west wing (parallel to the street) is made of sandstone (ground floor) and half-timbered (upper floor) and houses the kitchen, guest rooms and the former stable on the first floor, the former stately living rooms and a small hall on the upper floor. The north wing with the massive, double-winged entrance door (also sandstone / half-timbered) contains some utility rooms on the ground floor and the former servants' rooms on the upper floor. The whole complex was restored in 1990 and is largely in its original condition. The rooms on the upper floors are private and cannot be visited. The sandstones used were quarried in the old quarry opposite, which may also have supplied stones for the Nuremberg city fortifications.
history
The main builders of Rockenbrunn are likely to have been Susanne Fürer von Haimendorf (inscription 1643?), Wife of Georg Philipp Harsdörffer , Johann Mauritius Fürer von Haimendorf (1653) and Christoph Fürer von Haimendorf (President Lilidor I of the Pegnesian Order of Flowers, inscription 1718?). Before the construction of the defiant half-timbered building, the complex was possibly an open-air stage open on two to three sides, similar to the Sophienquelle near Grünsberg Castle . This is indicated by the copper engraving Pomona or the fruits of loneliness from the beginning of the 18th century. At the bottom left it shows the beginning of a fourth arcade that once existed. Perhaps predecessor structures such as the nearby Haimendorf Castle and Engelthal Monastery were burned down in the Second Margrave War or destroyed by the Wallensteins 'mercenaries or the Swedish troops in the Thirty Years' War . Haimendorf and Rockenbrunn were particularly likely to have affected the clashes in the Second Margrave War, as the former Schönberg exclave of the Brandenburg-Ansbach Margraviate was in the immediate vicinity. Documentary evidence for this has not yet been provided. The Fürerstein, who is about an hour away on foot in the direction of Nuremberg in the forest, indicates with the date "1567" the murder of a Fürer at this point; the murder has not yet been resolved. According to tradition, the riding horse is said to have reached the home stables at Haimendorf Castle with the money in the saddlebags.
With the community edict (1808) Rockenbrunn belonged to the politically independent community Haimendorf . On July 1, 1972, it was incorporated into Röthenbach an der Pegnitz as part of the Bavarian regional reform .
Fountain, balustrade
North and west wings, brewing star
Rockenbrunn, west wing
Building inscription, poem panels Rockenbrunn courtyard
May bowl sign ('Marterl') hand-painted
Brewer star, hexagram
Rockenbrunn, poem board
philosophy
With its "defiant" and self-contained character, the property creates the impression of a fortification. However, since the inner courtyard is elevated by a hill behind it and a total of four doors lead to the outside, it should not have really been a defensive structure. According to tradition, there is an escape tunnel more than 20 meters long into the sandstone canyon in the left basement, which is walled up today. Water basins built into the floor under the right arcade pose special puzzles - perhaps this was a kind of baptismal complex that can possibly be seen in connection with the Pegnese Flower Order and its rituals. The pools are not visible and covered with boards.
The inscription panel in the south wall bears the Latin version of the poem:
"Hurrying stranger stop! The sight soothes the pain! Wherever you look: uphill and in the Grotto Gang, to the oak grove and along the path, to the source Grund and the spring spring Rund to the carp pond - this is the kingdom of the muses! Here we enjoy body and soul, nothing is missing here! "(Translation after Recknagel)
The other inscription panels vouched for in the work De Mons Mauritius Descriptio by Professor Mauritius Hoffmann in the 18th century allow the conclusion that Rockenbrunn was in the 17th / 18th century. It was a popular meeting place for prominent figures from Nuremberg's mighty figures, poets and thinkers in the 19th century. It is possible that some students at Altdorf University have succumbed to the charm of the spring on their way from Nuremberg (approx. Six hours on foot) and to the Altdorfina (another two to three hours on foot). The student tradition of the may bowl, which has existed at least since the 19th century, as shown by some hand-painted old May bowl signs in the gate passage, is traditionally celebrated annually on a May Sunday in the Brunnenhof.
According to Mauritius Hoffmann, the following inscription can still be seen in 1694 under the right arcade above the spring:
"Consecrate the springs to the Lord, Consecrate mountains and hills to the Lord, Consecrate what moves in the water to the Lord."
and on the front:
"I have seen everything that happens under the sun, and see: Everything is just illusion and delusion."
Further inscriptions testified to a very contrary philosophical debate about the essence of humanity as such.
present
With the decline of the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg and the nearby University of Altdorf ( Altdorfina ) at the end of the 18th century, Rockenbrunn may have fallen into a kind of deep sleep and was used as a hunting lodge. The old brewer's star on the outside of the house (a "Star of David" or a hexagram with a beer or wine mug in it) shows that brewing and serving rights were held a long time ago. The alchemical character of the hexagram underlines the special atmosphere of Rockenbrunn. The Schramm family leased the property from 1857 to 2014 and ran Rockenbrunn as an original Franconian inn with a beer garden in the Brunnenhof for five generations. In June 2014 the restaurant was re-leased.
Once a year, on the penultimate Sunday in August, the traditional church consecrations of Rockenbrunn and Moritzberg have been celebrated for a long time. The landlord of Rockenbrunn traditionally places the Rockenmännle on the source stone in the middle of the well basin, the figure of a farmer with a distaff in his hand. The rock spring probably got its name from the distaffs, for which, according to tradition, the flax from neighboring Leinburg was watered and washed in this basin . The highlight of the parish fair is the church service in St. Mauritius on the Moritzberg on Sunday morning, to which the Fürer von Haimendorf patronage family has traditionally appeared for centuries .
Early history
The name Moritzberg is derived from the St. Mauritius church, which is closely associated with Rockenbrunn. St. Mauritius was an early Christian martyr, the general of the so-called Theban Legion . According to legend, he was a black (in German "Mohr"), there may be a reference to the Mohrenkopf in the Tucher coat of arms . Closely connected with it is the legend of the Holy Lance , also known as the “Spear of Fate” or “Spear of Longinus”, which has long been one of the imperial regalia kept in Vienna today. The Holy Lance was kept in Nuremberg for many centuries and was there again for a short time during the Third Reich . It is strange that a church in a traditional Protestant area should have such a name and keep it after the Reformation . Perhaps that is why the Moritzberg is considered the "Parnassus" or the "holy mountain" of the Nuremberg people.
The Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments identifies “prehistoric settlement finds” for Rockenbrunn. It is conceivable that already Celtic tribes , of which references to relevant scenic locations, such as oak groves or springs, are known, appreciated the special properties of this spring and settled there; maybe they had a small spring sanctuary in this place near the oppidum Houbirg near Happurg . In the German Shepherd Museum , the relics of the shepherds, which were once the central content of the flower order, can be viewed.
F. Kohl left a popular portrait of the villages and landscapes around the Moritzberg in Wie's then war . After that it was still customary at the beginning of the 20th century for young women to bathe in the rock spring on Easter Sunday morning.
literature
- Recknagel, E.-H., Theisinger, D., Mauritius Hoffmann: Botanical excursion from Altdorf to Moritzberg 1694 , in: Naturhistorische Gesellschaft Nürnberg eV, anniversary edition 2000, pp. 35–60
- Kohl, F .: How it was back then, land and people between Pegnitz and Schwarzach , 3rd exp. Ed., Hersbruck 1993.
- Kohlert, R .: The Moritzberg Guide , self-published by Röthenbach / Pegnitz, 1984
- Archive Dr. Wolfgang F. Caspers, 90552 Röthenbach / Pegnitz, Haimendorf.
Web links
- Rockenbrunn on the website www.roethenbach.de
- Pegnesischer Blumenorden eV (accessed June 17, 2015)
- Schönerungsverein Moritzberg eV (accessed June 17, 2015)
Individual evidence
- ^ Association for Computer Genealogy e. V. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Rockenbrunn
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 509 .
- ↑ n-land: The Schramm family gives Rockenbrunn from ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 20, 2014
