Heringnohe Castle

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Panoramic view of Heringnohe (2010)

The Heringnohe Castle (sometimes also called Hammerschloss Heringnohe called) is a Grade II listed building in the district Heringnohe the Upper Palatinate town of Vilseck in Amberg-Sulzbach of Bavaria (Heringnohe 1). It is in the immediate vicinity of the Grafenwöhr military training area . Earlier names of the estate were Hargenoe , Hargenaw and Horgnau .

history

The castle was part of a hammer mill operated by the water power of the Wiesennohe, a tributary of the Vils . The hammer mill belonged to the Bamberg bishops . Even when comparing the Upper Palatinate with the diocese on July 8, 1510, the work remained with the bishopric of Bamberg .

Hans Hegner is named as the owner of the Hammer zu Heringnohe in 1387 and the Sulzbacher Eisengewerke Albrecht Frank († 1480) in 1438 . His father had large reservoirs built in Heringnohe around 1400 to operate the hammer. Albrecht Frank was followed by his son Wilhelm, who mostly lived in Regensburg and married his daughter Ursula to Lienhart Portner. This inherited Heringnohe in 1517; his son Albrecht Portner († 1540) was the next to receive the Sulzbach inheritance, which was followed by his son Wilhelm, who expanded the hammer. The Portner family was represented here by the descendants Elias and Hans Adam. The latter refused to convert and had to emigrate without receiving any compensation for his property. During the Thirty Years' War , the administrator Johann Kohler asked in 1630 to reduce the war burden. The Heringnohe estate was given to the Bamberg canon Ulrich von Plettenberg in 1631 . 1641 Johann Kohler is run as hammer owner. Around 1700 the hammer lords got the right to brew beer. During the secularization of the Principality of Bamberg, the hammer came to the Upper Palatinate and the Amberg District Court on April 7, 1803 .

Other owners were Kaspar Gessel (1683), then the farmer Graf from Oberweißbach (around 1740). Georg Graf had three sons: Georg Johann, Johann Georg and Johann Baptist, from whom Georg Johann received the Hammer Heringnohe, Johann Georg the Hammergut Altneuhaus and Johann Baptist the Hammergut Altenweiher. Johann Georg Graf is the progenitor of the ennobled "von Grafenstein" family. After the "von Graf", the Heringnohe estate went to the von Lindenfels family in 1847, who owned the hammer for about two decades.

March 6, 1867 the property came to Christoph Kredler; under this went the hammer mill. Under his son († 1931) the property went into debt again. The businessman Hans Götz from Freihung bought the plant in 1931 and brought it to economic boom. After his death in 1957, Emma Götz and then her son Oswald Götz took over the estate. Today Joachim Götz is the owner of Heringnohe and runs an inn here.

Heringnohe Castle today

The former hammer lock is a three-story, plastered solid building with a crooked hip roof . Under the hips there is a niche structure with partly drilled and profiled walls. The building was erected around 1530. A servants' house, a two-storey sandstone block building with a gable roof, cornices and partly drilled cloaks from the 18th and 19th centuries belongs to the castle building. Inside the castle there are yellow-glazed ovens from the classical period in several rooms .

The Catholic Chapel of St. Laurentius is built on the south-east corner of the castle . This is a plastered and three-sided closed hall building made of stone with a gable roof and a roof turret from the 18th or 19th century.

literature

  • 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. 138-139 .
  • Martin Fitzthum: The Hammergut Heringnohe near Vilseck. Die Oberpfalz , 1969, Volume 57, pp. 179-180.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 46.5 ″  N , 11 ° 45 ′ 52.6 ″  E