Hopfau Castle

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Hopfau Castle

The listed Hopfau Castle (sometimes also called Hammerschloss Hopfau) is located in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Kemnath in the Tirschenreuth district (Hopfau 1 a), a few hundred meters upstream from Grötschenreuth directly on the Fichtelnaab .

history

The "Hopffaw" hammer was first mentioned in 1387. It was a Leuchtenburg fiefdom , later part of the Palatinate district court of Kemnath. At the “hammer union” between the cities of Amberg and Sulzbach on the Monday before St. Erhard in 1387, Otto Heyden von Grötschenreuth and Ruiger Heyer von Hopfau were among the 64 hammermen present . In 1408, according to the fief book of Landgrave Johann IV. Georg Pfreimder, owned the hammer in the Hopfau, "because the Hainers sat on it". The Pfreimder (derived from Pfrime or Pfreimd) were a noble family from the Upper Palatinate mentioned since 1218, which probably originated from the castle guards at Pfreimd ; They were servants of the Landgraves of Leuchtenberg and were wealthy in the area in the Middle Ages (e.g. around 1400 with the Trautenberg Castle ).

After the Thirty Years War only the hammer master lived on the iron hammer that had died. A mirror grinding shop was then built there (Sturm, 1975, p. 201). A Leuchtenberg official by the name of Hans Georg Steinhauser bought the village of Grötschenreuth on both sides of the Fichtelnaab and the lower, at that time desolate hammer, plus Eiglasdorf near Windischeschenbach with a farm and a mercenary estate and two ponds as well as two apprenticeships to Schnepfenreuth near Neuhaus, all with affiliations , on November 18, 1605 by the Leuchtenbergers as free property . The Hammer Hopfau remained formally a Leuchtenberg fief, but Steinhauser was enfeoffed with it. The Hammer Hopfau later came to the Brand zum Leutzenhof family, who loaned it to the respective hammer master as an after loan and finally sold it. The Brand family sold the forest on the Grenzbach behind the Huebnermühle that belonged to this hammer to the Erbendorf market .

Hopfau Castle today

The Eisenhammer Hopfau is already drawn in on a map from 1607. The largest building with the tower is the house of the former hammer masters that is still standing today. The building was built in 1605 and renovated in 1733.

The former hammer lock, in need of renovation, is a two-story saddle roof construction made of plastered quarry stone masonry . The polygonal stair tower on the south side and the sandstone walls are particularly striking . To the north of it is a single-storey extension with plaster structure and a hipped roof , marked with the year "1665". The Fichtelnaab flows directly next to the property .

literature

  • Detlef Knipping, Gabriele Raßhofer: Tirschenreuth district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume III.45 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2000, ISBN 3-87490-579-9 .
  • 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 .
  • Heribert Sturm: Neustadt an der Waldnaab, Weiden . (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern issue 47). Commission for Bavarian State History, Verlag Michael Laßleben, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7696-9912-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Kemnath (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ Heribert Sturm, 1978, p. 84.

Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '38.3 "  N , 12 ° 1' 2.5"  E