Erlhammer Castle

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The listed Erlhammer Castle is located in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Reuth near Erbendorf in the Tirschenreuth district (Erlhammer 1).

history

The hammer castle, built in the 16th century, belonged to the Bohemian fiefdom of Reuth and had the same owners until the 19th century. Erlhammer, who had moved to Reuth, was still a pertinence of Thumsenreuth in 1415 and Hanns der Tuschel was a hammer master. On January 17, 1492 Georg von Trautenberg was enfeoffed with Reuth in Eger . He was the owner of Reuth until 1523, followed by his son Erhard until 1540. This was followed by Heinrich von Trautenberg († 1585) and Wolf Christoph von Trautenberg († 1570) in 1550. In 1572 Niklas Ambschler sat on the Erlhammer as hammer master. With later successors on the hammer, the Bauer brothers, differences arose that were not settled until 1653. His son of the same name, Wolf Christoph, followed with a heavy burden of debt, who was enfeoffed on August 30, 1585 by Emperor Rudolf II († 1597). In the subsequent Gant process , Georg Friedrich Unruher, married to the widow of Wolf Christoph von Trautenberg Anna Barbara, née von Brand, acquired Gut Reuth in 1602. The daughter Anna Barbara of Georg Friedrich Unruher got engaged to Hans Adam von Sparneck on Trausnitz im Tal in 1618 and after the death of the Unruher the transfer to the Sparnecker took place in 1629.

According to a report dated January 16, 1666 about the state of mining and hammering in the Upper Palatinate, a decline in hammer mills was determined due to a lack of good iron ore. Even some of the melt residues had to be reprocessed, and there were also problems with the delivery of wood.

In 1747 Johann Franz Wenzel Graf von Kaiserstein and in 1761 his son Anton Graf von Kaiserstein were enfeoffed with Reuth by Empress Maria Theresia as the owner of the crown of Bohemia. After the reversion to the crown of Bohemia, Count Leopold von Kolowrat was enfeoffed. On March 17, 1772 Good came through purchase at the Major General Johann Georg Heinrich Philipp Freiherr von Reitz stone that gave the estate because of his advanced age, his son Ernst Karl, this was but it was only on 11 April 1795 by Emperor Francis II. Order enfeoffed. After the Peace of Pressburg on December 26th, 1805, all Bohemian fiefdoms in the Upper Palatinate were given up and incorporated into the Kingdom of Bavaria as male fiefs . Ernst Karl Freiherr von Reitzenstein was enfeoffed with Reuth. In 1840 Albert Freiherr von Reitzenstein, royal Bavarian treasurer and appellant judge, was enfeoffed as the oldest of four brothers on August 20, 1841 by King Ludwig I with the now Bavarian man fief. The Hammergut Erlhammer was "smashed" in 1865 and fell into peasant hands.

In 1814, a second class patrimonial court was formed in Reuth . In 1848, the transition to the state organization took place and in 1849 it was incorporated into the regional court in Erbendorf .

Erlhammer Castle today

The former hammer lock is a towering two-storey plastered solid building with a half- hipped roof and dormers . It has a high basement and granite reveals. The core of the building is late medieval , but was rebuilt in the baroque period ; the roof structure was determined on the basis of dendrochronological studies to the year 1796/97.

The property includes a stable and remisent wing , a single-storey, plastered solid construction with a half-hipped roof from around 1813/14; then an extension to the east followed and in 1839/40 a vault was installed.

Michael Lang acquired a small wayside shrine at the Erlhammer in 1865. He had it put up behind a barn on the way to Letten, where it still stands today, shaded by two chestnut trees. The wrought-iron grille with which it is closed is one of the few remaining products from the hammer workshop on the Erlhammer.

literature

  • Heribert Sturm: Kemnath. District judge Waldeck-Kemnath with sub-office Pressath . (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern issue 40). Commission for Bavarian State History, Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7696-9902-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heribert Sturm, 1975, p. 191.
  2. ↑ Weiden family research

Coordinates: 49 ° 51 ′ 1.2 ″  N , 12 ° 6 ′ 56.2 ″  E