Eichhofen Castle
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The Castle Eichhofen located in the district Eichhofen the market Nittendorf near Regensburg.
history
The special features of the Bavarian country castles include the so-called hammer castles , which were built from the 16th to the 18th century, mainly in the Upper Palatinate, as representative residential buildings by hammer mill owners. These include Eichhofen Castle, 17 km west of Regensburg, in the valley of the Schwarzen Laber . The hammer castle, which dates from the 16th century, is listed in the monument list of the municipality of Nittendorf as an architectural monument worthy of protection and is now privately owned.
The former iron hammer ceased operations in 1848, and the flour mills that were built have been idle since 1970. In the last few years the castle and the surrounding farm buildings have been extensively renovated. With the establishment of a workshop and exhibition room for artists on the upper floor of the former mill, Eichhofen became a small, private cultural center that has been able to present a number of exhibitions to the public in recent years.
There is also a brewery restaurant in the manor, where visitors can stop and enjoy the beer brewed on site by the Eichhofen Castle Brewery . In the 14th century the hammer belonged to the Muckenthalers, then followed by the Rammelsteiners (1527: Ruprecht Rammelsteiner), Ambrosius Raigner, 1560 rent master Leonhard Sauerzapf, 1612 Wolf Heinrich Sauerzapf, who also owned the hammer Schönhofen . Anna Katharina von Sauerzapf in Ober- and Niederviehhausen and Eichhofen married Hans Jakob Rosenbusch von Notzing after 1600 and the property passed to the Rosenbusch family.
- 1579 Ambrosius Raiger completes the construction of the castle. After his death, his grandson Hans Martin von Rosenbusch (district judge von Hirschberg) inherits the hammer from Loch and the Hofmark Eichhofen.
- 1692 The brewery is rebuilt by Franz Wilhelm Freiherr von Rosenbusch (Elector Bavarian Chamberlain).
- 1800 Under the landowners Anton von Schmaus (1805–1825) and Baron von Axter (1825–1841), industrialization was pushed ahead in Eichhofen. Schmaus continued the traditional iron hammer .
- 1812 Schmaus builds a blast furnace in order to gain access to the modern iron industry . The blast furnace produced 6,000 quintals of pig iron annually. Axter also built a small nail factory.
- 1818 A new branch of industry was introduced with the manufacture of mirror glass . In 1818 a mirror glass loop was set up in Eichhofen, in which raw glass from the Bavarian Forest was cut and polished. The mirror glass industry experienced its heyday in the 19th century, while iron production in Upper Palatinate fell into a severe structural crisis, from which the Eisenhammer von Eichhofen was not spared.
- 1848 Iron and steel production closes, two modern art mills are built .
- 1870 The castle brewery was equipped with steam energy and at that time had an annual production of 480 hectoliters of beer. Thus, under Wilhelm von Neuffer, a large-scale agricultural business with almost 100 employees was created, equipped with the latest technology.
- 1873 Construction of the Nuremberg-Regensburg railway line . The Undorf station was called Eichhofen station until 1934.
- 1936 Günther von Braunbehrens purchases the estate, and the von Braunbehrens / Schönharting family continues to operate it to this day.
- 1970 Agriculture and milling operations are stopped. The castle brewery is largely renewed and modernized.
- 1990 Art and exhibition operations begin in the Eichhofen art mill.
- 2005 Construction of the new brewhouse.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Michael Ress: Buildings, monuments and foundations of German ironworkers . Written on behalf of the Association of German Ironworkers . Verlag Stahleisen, Düsseldorf 1960, DNB 453998070 , p. 161 .
- ↑ Eichhofen Castle through the centuries. (No longer available online.) Eichhofen Castle Brewery, archived from the original on November 15, 2012 ; Retrieved December 25, 2012 . 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 ° 0 ′ 56.5 ″ N , 11 ° 55 ′ 34.9 ″ E